JOB SUMMARY

The Project Financial Analyst is responsible for project related financials, such as tracking and verifying project financial progress; processing invoices and payments to investigators and vendors; reconciling payments with sites, vendors and corporate Finance. The Project Financial Analyst will work closely with project managers, Contracts and Proposals, and Business Development to reconcile study related budget(s).

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Reconcile project budgets with project managers.
• Keep accurate records of all changes and charge backs.
• Recognize budget changes and point out when change orders need to be created.
• Attend project meetings and identify when change orders need to be generated and ensure that process is started
• Process approvals and payments for invoices submitted by sites/vendors; ensure payments are within contractual agreements 
• Identify out of balance accounting records and reconcile with site/vendor and the finance department 
• Communicate directly with the site and vendors to resolve invoice differences 
• Conduct Quality Control process reviews and remediate as needed 
• Maintain the clinical financial database 
• Ensure documentation is maintained to support an audit trail in the accounting system 
• Support the Clinical relationship with Finance 
• Interface with Accounting for the close/reconciliation process 
• Serve as the Clinical Finance representative for study teams 
• Provide data for clinical trial forecasting and budgeting process 
• Anticipate clinical trial budget revisions due to out-of-scope services, enrollment delays, etc. 
• Process financial termination/closure of study sites 
• Process monthly clinical dashboard 
• Provide actual cost budget analysis 
• Adhere to appropriate quality documents (e.g. SOPs, Training Guides), as applicable including EP and SOPs and processes 
• Other duties as assigned

 Salary Range: $80,000–$90,000 annually. Final compensation is based on skills, experience, location, and overall expertise.  

• The position requires at least a Bachelor’s Degree
• Must have financial analysis experience.
• Must have prior experience working in CRO or pharmaceutical industry.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications, particularly Excel (pivot tables, macros, data analysis) 
• Work well under pressure.
• Have excellent communication skills