Non-Clinical - Finance/Accounting/Financial Analyst

Join our dynamic team and enjoy the flexibility of working remotely while being part of a leading research institute located in Sacramento, CA. We provide all necessary equipment to ensure your success in this role.

Requirements

• Clinical trial budgeting or financial analysis experience
• Experience developing and maintaining clinical trial budgets across various research funding models
• Ability to analyze protocols for procedures, personnel effort, startup requirements, pass-through costs, and resource needs
• Experience negotiating budgets with sponsors, CROs, or funding agencies
• Conducting financial feasibility, cost recovery, and budget adequacy analyses
• Supporting study startup, activation, and contract-budget alignment
• Maintaining budget amendments, financial records, reports, and forecasts
• Collaboration 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
• Supporting sponsor audits or financial reviews
• Experience with financial forecasting, dashboards, and operational reporting
• 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 our Clinical Trials Administration team. Develop, analyze, negotiate, and maintain budgets for clinical research studies, ensuring appropriate 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. Collaborate with investigators, study teams, and various departments to support timely study activation and sound financial management throughout the trial lifecycle.