Non-Clinical - Clinical Trial Budget Analyst

Join our team remotely from the comfort of your home while supporting our operations based in Sacramento, CA.

Requirements

• Clinical trial budgeting or financial analysis experience
• Experience developing and maintaining clinical trial budgets across research funding models
• Experience analyzing protocols for procedures, personnel effort, startup requirements, pass-through costs, and resource needs
• Experience negotiating budgets with sponsors, CROs, or funding agencies
• Experience conducting financial feasibility, cost recovery, and budget adequacy analyses
• Experience supporting study startup, activation, and contract-budget alignment
• Experience maintaining budget amendments, financial records, reports, and forecasts
• Ability to collaborate with investigators, study teams, Contracts, Research Finance, Coverage Analysis, and Research Operations

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with industry-sponsored, investigator-initiated, grant-funded, cooperative group, device, or drug studies
• Experience supporting sponsor audits or financial reviews
• Experience with financial forecasting, dashboards, and operational reporting
• Experience educating investigators or research teams on budgeting and cost recovery
• Experience in an enterprise or multi-site healthcare research environment

Summary / Duties

Provide four months of remote support to *** Research Institute’s Clinical Trials Administration team. Develop, analyze, negotiate, and maintain budgets for clinical research studies while ensuring sponsor cost recovery and alignment with institutional financial objectives. Responsibilities include protocol-based budget development, sponsor and CRO negotiations, financial feasibility reviews, contract-budget alignment, study startup support, budget amendments, reporting, forecasting, and stakeholder consultation. Work closely with investigators, study teams, Clinical Trials Administration, Contracts, Research Finance, Coverage Analysis, Study Start-Up, and Research Operations to support timely study activation and sound financial management throughout the trial lifecycle.