Senior Financial Operations Analyst (Research Intelligence)

Job Description

Analyzes, verifies, authorizes, processes and reports related financial information in support of a specific field or a business unit operation. Designs, develops and implements systems or procedures resulting in the accurate reporting financial or system data. Guides Financial Analysts and support staff in completion of projects and duties.

Job Responsibility

• Analyzes, verifies, tracks and reports on financial indicators (e.g. accounts receivables, account coding and charging, cash flow, budgets, GL, P&L, statistical data and reserves) in support of a specific field or business unit operation.
• Reports on results on monthly, quarterly and/or annual basis.
• Researches, tracks and reports on statistical variances.
• Reports discrepancies to Supervisor/Manager.
• Designs, develops and modifies systems and procedures to enhance departmental processing as needed.
• Responsible for ensuring maintenance of proprietary databases including data integrity, timeliness of data input and accuracy of data.
• Conducts internal audits to ensure compliance to departmental policies and procedures, and state and federal regulations.
• Maintains compliance with various state, federal, and industry standards and regulations..
• Operates under limited guidance and work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience, required.

Key responsibilities (Research Intelligence Specific)

1. Works with Research Intelligence Finance Office lead to create and distribute timely clinical research financial reports to departments.
2. Works closely with Principal Investigators and study teams to develop and manage federally-funded clinical research budgets.
3. Provides post-award financial management of grants ensuring accurate and timely payments from sponsors and invoices from subcontracts and vendors.
4. Manages billing, accounts receivable, payment reconciliation and accurate and timely completion study closure process.
5. Maintains up-to-date with organizational policies related to financial management of clinical research studies.
6. Maintains up-to-date with federal award financial management and reporting policies and procedures, including NIH, AHRQ, PCORI, and DOD awardee requirements.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Advanced Excel and data visualization software (Tableau, Power BI) experience.
• VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) in Excel experience, preferred.
• Experience managing post-award financials for federally-funded clinical research studies, preferred.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to follow projects through to completion.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities and deadlines.

*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).