Sr. Research Finance Consultant

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Job Description Summary:

The Senior Research Finance Consultant for OhioHealth Research Institute (OHRI) will manage the full life cycle of clinical trial budgets and contracts performing specialized technical fiscal activities, financial management and reporting for research clinical trials and research projects conducted at OhioHealth. Activities include a variety of complex and varied fiscal administrative support functions such as analyzing Medicare Coverage Analysis documents, developing comprehensive internal study budgets, facilitating communication across the OH Enterprise, negotiating sponsor budgets according to Research Business Services (RBS) guidelines, analyzing and negotiating contract language and payment terms, creating and maintaining study fiscal records in the Clinical Trial Management System, complete monthly invoicing, study reconciliation and reporting, and final study close-out for assigned service lines, and coordinating fiscal support functions across OhioHealth. Uses skills as a seasoned, experienced financial service professional with a full understanding of industry practices and organizational policies and procedures with the ability to perform tasks independently, consistently, and accurately resulting in high quality work.

Responsibilities And Duties:

Research Finance:
Develop and/or coordinate Medicare coverage analysis for studies as required.

Independently develops comprehensive internal budget including input from various team members for clinical trial budgets for industry as well as investigator initiated clinical research.

Independently negotiate study budgets with CRO or Sponsor.

Critically evaluates research protocols to assess resources needed; assessment includes all research procedures, clinical research staff time, and costs from ancillary departments.

Analyze study budgets, including but not limited to cost analysis, calculating potential profit margins, etc.

Effectively and independently negotiate clinical trial budgets with study sponsors to ensure all costs are identified and covered.

Conduct monthly account reconciliation reporting processes for all sources of funding, track, and project revenue by specific funding category, determine actual performance.

Prepares device information sheet for device trials, and coordinates with supply chain and other ancillaries as needed. 

Follows institutional and departmental policies and procedures for setting up a study for concordance review for final sign off from leadership.

Independently develops and maintains study-specific and project-specific financial reconciliation and tracking sheets.

Maintain schedule of reporting requirements for studies.

Attend regularly scheduled meetings with PI and/or study teams to discuss financial projections and activity for each trial and project.

Ensure that invoices to sponsors are submitted based on payment terms.

Responsible for accounts receivable and accounts payable department functions for studies.

Maintain research documents such as contracts and finance related documents for pending, new, and active studies/contracts.

Service as a resource to PIs and study team from study start up, through study activation, and study closeout.

Working with Finance Accounting on existing and future accounts an