Project Manager I (Cancer Clinical Trials Financial Manager) - Tisch Cancer Institute - Mount Sinai Health System : Job Details

Cancer Clinical Trials Financial Manager has oversight of all financial and related activities for a large and complex institute, department, center, or unit. Manages departmental financial office; performs analyses to identify revenue collection problems and other trends.

The Cancer Clinical Trials Financial Manager independently provides technical expertise and serves as a subject matter expert to the Cancer Clinical Research Unit (CRSU) by managing financial components of clinical trials for the assigned units. The Cancer Clinical Trials Financial Manager ensures timely invoicing, monetary disbursing, and tracking, and monitoring of cash flows, expenses on sponsored trials and verifies the correctness of a variety of finance and accounting data related to accounts payable and receivable, disbursement, patient billing, and collection activities.

Scope:

• Budget development & negotiations
• Coverage analysis
• Account reconciliation & close-out
• Research billing & charge adjudication
• Accounts receivable & payable
• Data collection & resolve discrepancies
• Invoicing, payments & collections
• Special projects as assigned

Responsible for overall financial management for the business unit(s) assigned.

• Applies the principles of research accounting within assigned areas of accountability by performing a variety of routine finance and accounting functions and transactions including but not limited to preparing, processing, analyzing, interpreting, reconciling, maintaining, and verifying the correctness of a variety of finance and accounting data related to accounts payable and receivable, disbursement, collection and close out.
• Processes accounts payable and ensures timely payments are made to various internal groups, external vendors, patients, and sub-sites based on contractual obligations, posts and tracks expenses for study and vendor accounts. Responsible for timely clinical trial account invoicing to sponsors which matches protocol driven procedures with patient accruals/visits to ensure appropriate invoicing and reimbursement.
• Develops business plans for new programs, hires, and operational needs of the assigned unit.
• Conducts financial reconciliations of clinical trial budgets, expenditures, invoices, and payments.
• Analyzes revenues to identify collection problems, billing issues and other trends.
• Conducts routine financial analysis and creation of reports as requested by department administrator or chairman as applicable. May use informatics skills or liaison with technical departments to produce dashboards, charts, or other sophisticated modeling.

Responsible for overall financial reporting of the business unit(s) assigned.

• Collect and compiles accurate and reliable data.
• Performs functions to support clinical trial billing compliance, in accordance with established department procedures, governing regulations and institutional policies.
• Compiles productivity, compliance, and profit/loss reports. Prepare presentation materials in an accurate, clear, and concise format.
• Uses forecasting techniques (qualitative techniques, time series analysis, casual models, etc.) and sensitivity analysis to provide advice and guidance to the physician and administrative leaders.
• Meets routinely with leadership teams to review financial health of the unit and opportunities.

Independently develops and negotiate favorable clinical trial budgets, within assigned areas of accountability that follow all federal and local agency regulations and institutional requirements.

• Critically evaluates research protocols to assess resource needs; assessment includes all protocol direct procedures (technical and professional), clinical research staff time, investigator time, and costs from ancillary departments and/or outside vendors or service providers.
• Negotiates and finalizes trial budgets with industry sponsors within established parameters and timelines.
• Determines research procedures in the protocol that are standard-of-care or research-related costs, provides justification, documentation (i.e., NCCN guidelines) and obtains Investigator input.
• Independently develops and negotiates budgets for highly complex situations (i.e., multi-institutional, in-patient stay, novel therapy (Phase 1, first in human) or research design (basket, Bayesian model, double-cross over).

Identifies opportunities to enhance and expand services to investigators based on Cancer Institute goals and timelines.

• Fosters industry and key partnership relationships through open communication. Develops and maintains effective working relationships with various Hospital departments to facilitate departmental and institutional goals.
• Critically evaluates new business opportunities.
• Researches internal and external data and systems, solicits feedback from peers to identify opportunities for improvement and prepares recommendations and/or proposals for management consideration.
• Develops and comments on policies, procedural or training documents
• Participates in quality and process improvement projects.
• Negotiate and manage vendor contracts for clinical trials and departmental needs.
• Works with senior leaders and physician dyads to respond to NCI critiques, external advisory board recommendations and develop priorities and tactical implementation plans within the assigned areas.

Clinical Trial Management System

• Responsible building calendar and financial modules in the clinical trial management system (OnCore)
• Performs quality checks of end user data to ensure accurate and timely revenue generation
• Ensures adequate tracking mechanisms for all clinical trial activity within the unit and develops status reports on regional performance metrics and communicates to leadership. May collaborate with research informatics/IT for system support to carry out goals and objectives.

Other duties, including passion projects, as assigned or with prior approval

Education:•Bachelor's degree or greater preferred, or combination of applicable work experience and education.

Experience:•3+ years of relevant experience with Master's degree; 5+ years with Bachelor's degree; project management-specific experience preferred.

General Skills:•Excellent written and oral communication•Strong attention to detail•Intermediate knowledge of accounting principles and procedures•Intermediate knowledge of operating procedures of best practices for health care organizations•Clinical research and/or grant research experience

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Compensation

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides salary ranges that comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $65885 - $98827 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and operational need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.