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Stanford University
Cancer Clinical Financial Specialist (Hybrid)
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A Financial Operations Specialist specializes in foreseeing or carrying out financial transactions or other routine operations that are influenced by compliance needs. Requires some knowledge of accounting, billing, customer service and contracts. Helps businesses and their customers resolve financial billing and reconciliation issues.
$75,138 / year median in California
-10% projected decline
Job Description
Research Administrator 2 - Clinical Trials Office - Hybrid The Stanford Cancer Institute (SCI) is one of an elite number of National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the country, and is a prominent, dynamic, growing and complex Institute within the Stanford University School of Medicine. The SCI actively works to build synergies and collaborations among faculty with cancer-relevant expertise from four Schools and over 30 departments across Stanford University. We seek a Research Administrator 2 to help us enact our mission to reduce cancer mortality through comprehensive programs of cancer research, treatment, education and outreach. Given the SCI's mission, breadth, and depth, it employs over 400 staff members in a fast-paced, team-oriented, and forward-thinking environment with tremendous opportunities for personal and professional growth. The Cancer Clinical Trials Office (CCTO) is an integral component of the Stanford Cancer Institute since the vital work performed there enables our adult and pediatric cancer centers to translate research from the laboratory into the clinical setting. You will be working with an unparalleled leading-edge community of faculty and staff who are fundamentally changing the world of healthcare in the cancer arena. Reporting to the CCTO Financial Manager, the Research Administrator 2 will be conversant in the goals, mission and priorities of the Institute, and utilize this knowledge to serve as the Institutional Representative for working on amendments for sponsored cancer clinical trials and be the point of contact for sponsor and University clinical research grant and contract administrators. Working in collaboration with faculty, business managers and other departments, hospital and University staff, the Research Administrator 2, assists the Financial Manager to receive the requests and gather all of the necessary documents for processing the amendments of ongoing clinical trials. The RA 2 will ensure that the process is timely, compliant and includes accurate amendment contracts. We are seeking candidates with excellent oral, written, and communication skills and extreme attention to detail. Our staff run toward challenges, and you will have a demonstrated history of doing the same with a high degree of professionalism, initiative and flexibility. Responsibilities will include protocol review and interpretation for the amendments, interpretation and application of pertinent government regulations and guidelines, develops the amendment budgets, negotiates and provides strategic advice to the PI, ensuring that the contract budgets and payment schedules/terms meets sponsor, University, hospital and School pre-and post- award guidelines/regulations. Responsibilities include processing amendments for ongoing studies, entering and attaching data and documents for these amendments to the various databases, perform budget checks for new studies, generate purchase requisitions and reimbursements as well as various journal entries for the