Sr IMS Specialist

Description

Sr IMS Specialist

Syneos Health is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you'll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:

WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression supportive and engaged line management technical and therapeutic area training peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to our Total Self culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives - we're able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job Responsibilities

JOB TITLE: Senior Investigator Management Solutions (IMS) Specialist

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
Processes investigator payments by:
o Years of experience required: Three to five (3-5) years progressive financial experience, or equivalentcombination of education & experience.o Maintaining the investigator payment portion of the IMPACT System.o Inputting investigators budgets.o Reviewing data with project manager for quality and completeness.o Processing and creating approved grant payment requests via the IMPACT systemo and forwarding or interfacing these to A/P ando Distributing investigator payments to respective sites.

- Facilitates site payments with internal groups such as clinical operations, project management,
accounts payable, accounts receivable, and site contracts teams. Coordinates with regionalcolleagues to ensure holistic global view of project payment/funding status.

- Collaborates with accounts receivable and project management to ensure advance funding is
received from sponsors on a timely basis for global project needs and deposits are availablebefore site payments are processed.

- Creates, maintains, and reconciles MS Excel Project Grant Tracker as necessary.
- Reviews and interrogates Clinical Trial Agreements (CTAs) and CTA amendments to ensurepayments are made according to the documented payment terms and schedule. Discrepanciesshould be escalated to their line manager or the appropriate project team member as needed

Explains roles/responsibilities and coaches project teams through grants payment process and
system navigation, as needed.

- Provides forecasting and analysis support to project teams as needed.
- Reviews, assesses, finds resolution, and takes appropriate action when dealing with site paymentdisputes and issues.- Research, compiles, and creates necessary information as required in support of grantinvoicing.- Identifies and works with clinical team to follow up on invoice discrepancies, past due invoicesand to request refunds from sites.- Ensures proper account and project coding are applied to third party invoices as it relates toinvestigator payments.- Creates project reports as requested from sponsors, operations, accounting and/or uppermanagement to support Sunshine Act reporting, monthly close process and ad hoc financialanalysis.- Assists with customer audits of grant payments and deposits.- Trains and mentors less experienced staff members on departmental Standard OperatingProcedures (SOPs), processes, tools, and templates, and ensures quality of teamwork products.- Assists with coordinating Investigator Payment processes and Accounts Payable processes, andcompiling weekly check run data. Review and authorize payments in banking module, as needed.- Assists with documenting work instructions, policies, or procedures for Investigator PaymentSpecialists essential job functions. Maintains and updates training material for site contract team.- Acts as subject matter expert for system support, and resolves issues between the technicalsupport team and Project Managers.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
-B.com / M.com / MBA- Finance from Accounting, Finance
-Moderate experience in data management in a clinical research organization or related field.-Strong proficiency in using Excel for spreadsheet analysis. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite(Word, Excel, PowerPoint), email, and voicemail.Oracle experience preferred.-Foreign language proficiency preferred.-Ability to organize and prioritize work to meet deadlines in a dynamic environment. Aboveaverage attention to detail.- Effective presentation, documentation, and interpersonal skills with a team-oriented approachYears of experience required: Three to five (3-5) years progressive financial experience, or equivalentcombination of education & experience.

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you'll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

Summary

JOB SUMMARY Independently administers complex, global, and/or specialized payments to investigators and institutions Participating in clinical trials in accordance with sponsor and company requirements. Works with internal teams to ensure appropriate funding prior to administering payments. Assists with payment forecasting, analysis and reporting. Provides functional guidance and keeps internal and external team members aware of site payment status and issues. Identifies project and/or individual site payment related problems and works with internal and external team members to provide and implement solutions. Trains and mentors less experienced staff and identify ways to improve internal project operations. Establishes strong working relationships with customers and internal project teams. May lead internal team education or process improvement initiatives.