Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
 
Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.
 
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 deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.
 
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
 
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 building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress. 

Job Responsibilities

Administers payments to Investigators & Institutions participating in clinical trials in accordance with sponsor and Organization’s requirements. Works with internal teams to ensure appropriate funding prior to administering payments, keeps internal and external team members aware of site payment status and issues.

Responsibilities:

•    Processes investigator payments by:
•    Managing the investigator payment portion in various CTMS Tools like IMPACT, Medidata, and Clinpay etc.
•    Reviewing data with project manager for quality and completeness
•    Processing and creating approved grant payment requests via the CTMS Tools and forwarding or interfacing with A/P; and
•    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 regional colleagues 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 available before site payments are processed.
•    Creates, maintains, and reconciles MS Excel Project Grant Tracker as necessary.
•    Reviewsand interrogates Clinical Trial Agreements (CTAs) and CTA amendments to ensure payments are made according to the documented payment terms and schedule. Discrepancies should be escalated to their line manager or the appropriate project team member as needed.
•    Prompts project teams through grants payment process and system navigation, as needed.
•    Researches, compiles, and creates necessary information as required in support of sponsor invoicing.
•    Identifies and works with clinical team to follow up on invoice discrepancies, past due invoices and to request refunds from sites.
•    Ensures proper account and project coding are applied to third party invoices as it relates to investigator payments.
•    Creates project reports as requested from sponsors, operations, accounting and/or upper management to support Sunshine Act reporting & various other statutory reports, monthly close process and ad hoc financial analysis.
•    Assists Investigator Payments Manager with Audits of site payments and sponsor deposits.
•    Minimal travel may be required (up to 25%).
•    Workswith sponsor systems and applications as required by the project.

Qualifications:

•    BA/BS degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, plus some financial experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
•    Strong proficiency in using Excel for spreadsheet analysis. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), email, and voicemail.
•    Oracle experience preferred but not mandatory.
•    Foreignlanguage proficiency preferred.
•    Ability to organize and prioritize work to meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.
•    Aboveaverage attention to detail, and interpersonal skills with a team-oriented approach.

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.

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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.