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Clinical Research Finance Coordinator III - Post Award
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Application
Details
Posted: 16-Jan-26
Location: California
Internal Number: 13660
Job Description
This role offers a fully remote work arrangement. Please note that applicants must be based in California to be considered for this opportunity
This position is a post-award role, meaning the incumbent will support sponsored research projects after funding has been awarded. Responsibilities include financial management and oversight of active grants and contracts, such as monitoring budgets and expenditures, ensuring compliance with sponsor and institutional policies, processing financial transactions, preparing financial reports, and partnering closely with investigators and research teams to support the ongoing fiscal health of awarded studies. This role does not focus on proposal development or grant submission activities.
The Clinical Research Finance Coordinator III develops highly complex clinical trial budgets for industry, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and investigator-initiated clinical research. Evaluates research protocols to assess resource needs, procedures, clinical research staff time, investigator time, and costs from ancillary departments. Determines cost allocation, negotiates budgets, details budgets, and responsible for monitoring and invoicing. Plans and coordinates strategies for improving efficiency, action plans to improve quality, and training and education of personnel. Ensures compliance with all federal and local agencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and local Institutional Review Board.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Works closely with investigators and ancillary departments to identify research procedures needed, budget estimates and cost details.
Evaluates highly complex research protocols to assess resource needs, research procedures, clinical research staff time, investigator time, and costs from ancillary departments. Processes Ancillary Agreements with departments providing research services.
Determines whether research procedures in the protocol are standard-of-care or a research-related cost in order to correctly classify expenses.
Develops highly complex clinical trial budgets sponsored for industry and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), investigator-initiated clinical research. Works with the CSMC office of Sponsored Research to develop final budgets for clinical trials and research projects. Reviews and approves internal and/or satellite site budgets.
Negotiates trial budgets and payment terms with industry sponsors.
Monitors study accounts to evaluate that cost expenses/details are appropriate and within expected limits, reconciles accounts receivable and payments, and determines the best course of action for any deficits and/or surpluses. Negotiates with sponsors the final payment due for account closeout. Conducts quality review and/or audits of clinical trial budgets. Serves as point of contact for fiscal related questions and engages management as appropriate.
Responsible for invoicing sponsors, patient research billing, reimbursement to ancillary departments, and payment tracking. Issues and submits invoices for protocol-related items and patient-related expenses per the executed contract and internal invoices for staff time and effort allocation into study accounts. Works closely with sponsors and clinical teams to resolve queries regarding invoices and/or payments due.
Extracts and defines relevant information, analyzes and interprets data to determine financial performance and/or to project a financial probability, and makes recommendations and/or creates proposals to influence business results. Prepares and delivers data, reports and/or presentations to investigators, management and/or leadership.
Enters financial information from finalized clinical trial budgets and clinical trial agreements into the Clinical Trial Management System. Reviews and finalizes study calendars to ensure agreement with Medicare coverage analysis and clinical trials budget.
Performs Medicare coverage analysis for clinical trials and collaborates with Institutional Review Board (IRB) to finalize and obtain approval.
Reviews protocol amendments for impact to sponsored research budget/contract. Processes budget/contract amendments as applicable.
Provides training, education, onboarding and mentors other personnel.
Plans and coordinates strategies to improve existing standard operating procedures related to budgeting and clinical trials finance. Identifies quality and performance improvement opportunities and work with management to lead the development of new (or improvement of existing) processes, policies or standard operating procedures. Assists with business software launches, implementation or optimization.
May lead or facilitate team meetings.
Qualifications
Requirements:
High School Diploma/GED.
5 years of Experience with billing, accounting, accounting, finance, financial analysis or related field.
2 years of Experience in clinical research.
Preferred:
Bachelors in Accounting, Finance, or other related degree
Req ID : 13660 Working Title : Clinical Research Finance Coordinator III - Post Award Department : Cancer - SOCCI Clinical Research Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Job Category : Academic / Research Job Specialty : Contract & Grant Budget/Fund Overtime Status : EXEMPT Primary Shift : Day Shift Duration : 8 hour Base Pay : $41.42 - $70.41
Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.