• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Salary Range:

Position Summary

Reporting to the Director of Budgets and Billing Review in the Clinical Trials Office (the ???CTO???) of Columbia University???s Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons (???VP&S???). The Budget Analyst will be responsible for ensuring financial feasibility and compliance of industry sponsored clinical trial budgets.

The CTO assists investigators and academic/research staff in developing clinical trials at VP&S and provides administrative resources and infrastructure to build and sustain clinical trials research at VP&S. 

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include, but not limited to the following:

• Review of sponsor budgets and protocols with Columbia University (CU) faculty and their research staff to determine financial feasibility and make modifications to meet cost expectations.
• Draft & negotiate budgets and payment terms for clinical trials directly with representatives of Sponsors (typically pharmaceutical companies).
• Ensure compliance with University policies & procedures, including research billing compliance.
• Build all negotiated & executed trials into the CTO Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS), capturing the detail budget and payment terms.
• Guide investigators and research personnel regarding institutional requirements such as indirect cost rates, Institutional Review Board (IRB), Research Pharmacy and RASCAL processes and their budgetary impacts.
• Create a budget based on research protocols, ensuring financial feasibility, viable payment terms, and compliance with CUIMC and NYPH policies.
• Provide principal investigators and research personnel timely and effective communications regarding progress of budget negotiations.
• Update & maintain all activity on databases & workflow trackers.
• Liaise with Sponsors and the CU research community to ensure budget negotiations have timely progression and issues are address.
• Liaise with VP&S & NYPH affiliates that interface with the Clinical Trials Office such as NYP Procurement Office, Billing Compliance and Financial Accounting.
• Prepare departmental reports and manage special projects as needed per the Directors of the CTO.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor???s degree or equivalent in education and experience, plus three years of related experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Other Requirements

Additional Position-Specific Minimum Qualifications:

• The candidate must be able to work independently with excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Demonstrate ability to collaborate with partners in research, Investigators and research teams.
• Demonstrate an ability to understand clinical research and interpret protocols.
• Excellent verbal, written and editorial communication skills with an attention to detail required.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage/handle multiple tasks, teams, and teamwork simultaneously.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills required, including proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft SharePoint.

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