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King’s College London Hiring for Clinical Trials Finance Associate Job at London, England Full Time
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Job description
- Provide day to day line management of the Clinical Trials Finance Facilitator, Clinical Trials Invoicing Facilitator & or Clinical Trials Finance Assistant.
- To ensure the swift and efficient management of the invoicing and distribution of income generated by KHP-CTO managed commercial and non-commercial trials at each of the Partner institutions.
- To ensure the smallest possible commercial research debt, by managing and overseeing all processes and procedures relating to credit control and debt management.
- Produce regular reports and generate data enabling senior members of the CTO and College finance teams to make strategic plans and for reporting to the CTO Board and elsewhere as needed.
- Responsible for training and ensuring competency of all members of the KHP-CTO commercial team on all related processes and systems.
- To provide advice and guidance to senior members of the CTO team, College, and Trust Finance teams as well as local departmental staff.
- work directly with external and internal Sponsors and CRO’s to ensure swift resolution of problems
- Oversee the day-to-day activities of the Clinical Trials Finance Facilitator.
- Ensure the KHP-CTO invoicing targets are met & invoicing documentation is quality check for accuracy.
- To act as first point of contact for enquires about KHP-CTO trials’ invoicing
- To lead and work flexibly as a member of a team
- Generate reports and data as required that enable stakeholders to make strategic decisions.
This post will be offered on an indefinite contract
This is a full-time post – 100% full time equivalent
Key responsibilities
- To lead on the provision of advice to teams across King’s Health Partners in the operation of the KHP commercial invoicing and income distribution processes.
- Develop relationships with external finance personnel in commercial sponsor/CRO companies to ensure timely and accurate invoicing
- To identify issues with the KHP-CTO financial management processes and/or tools and make recommendations to the CTO Director to improve processes as required
- Manage the process of raising commercial and non-commercial research invoices and credit notes.
- Oversee the disbursement of monthly commercial research activity reports to the respective Partner institutions.
The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.
Skills, knowledge, and experience
Essential criteria
1. Degree or Equivalent
2. Ability to understand complex financial processes and procedures
3. Understanding of Higher Education and Trust Financial Procedures
4. Ability to Understand, manipulate, analyze, and present numerical/financial data in a variety of format
5. Effective Oral and Written Communication Skills
6. Advanced IT skills (finance packages, excel)
7. Significant experience of working with IT packages (finance packages, excel)
8. Experience of delivering customer service, receiving feedback, and making independent improvements to these skills
9. Experience of research environment (or similar)
10. Ability to organise and prioritise work independently
11. Ability to work to a high level of accuracy and maintain accuracy standards in a team environment
12. Ability to work effectively under pressure and to tight deadlines
13. Ability to manage multiple tasks/ priorities simultaneously
14. Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision
15. A ‘can-do’ attitude towards problem solving and change
16. Ability to work with detail
Desirable criteria
1. Accounting/Bookkeeping qualification