Financial Accounting Analyst, Clinical Trials

Company Overview
ImmunityBio, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBRX) is a commercial-stage biotechnology company developing cell and immunotherapy products that are designed to help strengthen each patient’s natural immune system, potentially enabling it to outsmart the disease and eliminate cancerous or infected cells. We envision a day when we no longer fear cancer, but can conquer it, thanks to the biological wonder that is the human immune system. Our scientists are working to develop novel therapies that harness that inherent power by amplifying both branches of the immune system, attacking cancerous or infected cells today while building immunological memory for tomorrow. The goal: to reprogram the patient’s immune system and treat the host rather than just the disease.

Why ImmunityBio?
• ImmunityBio is developing cutting-edge technology with the goal to transform the lives of patients with cancer and develop next-generation therapies and vaccines that complement, harness and amplify the immune system to defeat cancers and infectious diseases.
• Opportunity to join a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company with headquarters in Southern California.
• Work with a collaborative team with the ability to work across different areas of the company.
• Ability to join a growing company with professional development opportunities.

Position Summary

The Financial Accounting Analyst, Clinical Trials will serve as the financial steward for ImmunityBio’s clinical‑trial portfolio, translating complex trial expenditures into actionable insights that support cost efficiency, regulatory compliance, and strategic decision‑making. The analyst will partner with Clinical Operations, Medical Affairs, Procurement, CRO finance teams, and external sponsors to ensure that all trial‑related financial transactions are accurately captured, classified, and reported in accordance with U.S. GAAP. By synthesizing budgetary data, invoice audits, and key performance indicators, the analyst will provide senior leadership with the visibility required to optimize trial spend, mitigate financial risk, and align resources with corporate objectives.

Essential Functions

• Collaborate with Clinical Trial Managers to reconcile and track invoiced amounts against electronic data capture (EDC) records and the clinical‑trial management system (CTMS) to verify that expenditures align with site‑level activity data.
• Collaborate with Clinical Trial Managers, Data Management Programers, and Site Budget teams to ensure correct protocol procedures are captured in EDC for migration to CTMS in support of Veeva Payments.
• Create, maintain and update fee schedule templates within Veeva Payments module.
• Build and maintain Veeva templates and ad-hoc reports for Sr. leadership and project managers.
• Conduct a monthly comprehensive audit of trial‑related invoices, including site fees, investigator payments, CRO services, monitoring expenses, and ancillary costs such as regulatory fees and travel.
• Analyze accounting transactions related to clinical trials, including reconciliation to budgets.
• Obtain Clinical Operations approval of invoices before sending to AP
• Document findings from detailed audit trails and communicate to finance and operations teams for prompt resolution of discrepancies.
• Create, maintain, and update comprehensive trial budgets within the enterprise clinical‑trial system, incorporating projected site‑level costs, CRO fees, and supply requirements.
• Model cash‑flow implications, burn rates, and runway metrics on quarterly and ad‑hoc forecasting cycles to allow senior leadership to anticipate funding needs and adjust resource allocation proactively.
• Prepare variance analyses to compare actual spend to budgeted figures on a cost‑per‑patient and per‑site basis, highlighting overruns or under‑utilization and recommending corrective actions.
• Present narrative variance reports at steering committee meetings and finance leadership councils, facilitating data‑driven decision‑making.
• Design and maintain Power BI dashboards that track core metrics to provide real‑time visibility into trial financial performance.
• Define KPIs with clear methodology, source data, and calculation logic, and ensure consistency across reporting periods.
• Refresh and disseminate monthly dashboards to cross‑functional stakeholders, enabling timely identification of cost drivers and opportunities for efficiency gains.
• Integrate financial and operational data to support a holistic view of trial health that aligns with ImmunityBio’s broader performance objectives.
• Participate in risk‑based internal‑control testing, contributing to ImmunityBio’s SOX‑type compliance framework for clinical‑trial expe