IMS Specialist I ** Hybrid UK **

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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• Distributing investigator payments to respective sites.
• Facilitating site payments with internal groups such as clinical operations, project management, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and site contracts teams.
• Coordinating with regional colleagues to ensure holistic global view of project payment/funding status.
• Collaborating with accounts receivable and project management to ensure advance funding is received from sponsors on a timely basis and deposits are available before site payments are processed.
• Creating, maintaining, and reconciling MS Excel Project Grant Tracker as necessary.
• Reviewing and interrogating Clinical Trial Agreements (CTAs) and CTA amendments to ensure payments are made according to the documented payment terms and schedule.
• Escalating discrepancies to the line manager or appropriate project team member as needed.
• Prompts project teams through grants payment process and system navigation, as needed.
• Researching, compiling, and creating necessary information as required in support of sponsor invoicing.
• Identifying and working with clinical team to follow up on invoice discrepancies, past due invoices and to request refunds from sites.
• Ensuring proper account and project coding are applied to third party invoices as it relates to investigator payments.
• Creating 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%).

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.
• Ability to organize and prioritize work to meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.
• Above average attention to detail, and interpersonal skills with a team-oriented approach.

Syneos Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, marital status, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.