Clinical Payment Specialist II

Premier Research is looking for a Clinical Payment Specialist II to join our Clinical R&D-Finance team.

You will help biotech, medtech, and specialty pharma companies transform life-changing ideas and breakthrough science into new medicines, devices, and diagnostics. What we do is profoundly connected to saving and improving lives, and we recognize our team members are the most valuable asset in delivering success.

• We are here to help you grow, to give you the skills and opportunities to excel at work with the flexibility and balance your life requires.

• Your ideas influence the way we work, and your voice matters here.

• As an essential part of our team, you help us deliver the medical innovation that patients are desperate for.

Join us and build your future here.

 

What You will be Doing:

• ​​Facilitate and distribute grant payments to respective sites throughout the course of a study and effectively communicate with investigators, sponsors and internal study team members 

• ​Ensure clinical studies are correctly and appropriately set-up in the required system(s) as per the scope of work 

• ​Ensure finance activities are completed within timelines as per service level agreements 

• ​Review study specifications (e.g. – EDC visit and procedure structure) and site contracts to understand system setup requirements 

• ​Complete setup in finance system(s) based on information in study specifications and site contracts 

• ​Process data within finance system, ensuring accurate payment, forecasting and accrual outputs 

• ​Identify and work with clinical team to follow up on invoice discrepancies, past due invoices, and to request refunds from sites 

• ​Produce reports, as needed, outlining payment, forecasting, and accrual activity 

• ​Assist Clinical Payments’ Leadership with customer audits of site payments and sponsor deposits 

• ​Provide system support to clinical study teams throughout the life of the study 

• ​Provide feedback on company internal processes around system implementation and investigator grant processing 

• ​Train and develop those in the Clinical Payment Specialist I position 

What we are looking for:

• ​​Bachelor’s degree, or its international equivalent from an accredited institution, in a finance, clinical, science or health related field; or related experience 

• ​BS/BA and 2 – 5 years direct experience, or 5+ years of related experience in finance or the clinical trial industry 
• ​Prior experience using computerized information systems 

• ​Knowledge of clinical contracts, budget terms, and basic study start-up and management activities  

• ​Experience working with various systems such as: EDC, CTMS, IVRS and other clinical systems preferred 

• ​Knowledge of ICH and local regulatory authority drug research and development regulations preferred 

• ​Strong analytical and investigative skills 

• ​Strong ability to utilize new systems and demonstrate abilities within systems​