Band 4 Data Administrator (Research)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 4 Data Administrator who will focus on the team finance to join the Haematology Research team at QEH. The team is based at the Centre for Clinical Haematology, which provides expert treatment for patients with a wide variety of blood diseases including leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma, and patients with disorders of haemostasis and thrombosis. The department is a regional centre for allogeneic, CAR-T, autologous blood, and marrow transplants in adults. The research team is responsible delivering a mixture of academic and industry sponsored clinical trials covering all areas of blood diseases. With a diverse and continually growing research portfolio, the post holder will ensure that the research income and invoices are recouped efficiently and effectively. The person will facilitate timely reimbursements of patient travel and inconvenience expenses. The person will be a key link between the trust finance team, R&D cost recovery team, the research delivery team and study sponsors ensuring efficient and timely cost recovery of studies. This is a varied post which will involve, among other tasks, comprehensive administrative support to research finance processes, effective communication with internal and external stakeholders. It is essential that the post holder exercises initiative and judgement using acquired skills and knowledge while maintaining confidentiality.Main duties of the job

• Manage research accounts: Ensuring these are created in a timely manner as required for research and finances attributes.
• Invoicing: Proactive engagement with all relevant teams to ensure invoices are accurate and raised in a timely manner
• Ensure that all invoices are reconciled as and when payments are made.
• Ensure that patient travel expenses and inconvenience payments are processed on a timely manner.
• Facilitate the creation of purchase orders for goods and services that are contracted with external providers.
• Use own initiative to investigate any ad hoc queries and respond or escalate accordingly
• Be a key point of contact and source of information for all finance related issues.
• Handle queries from both internal staff, patients and external sponsors relating to financial management invoices, purchase orders and costings.
• Be able to produce regular finance reports and accurate projections.
• Computer literate with strong IT skills, including the upkeep of databases/trackers, and fluent in the use of Microsoft Excel to perform Finance tasks.
  
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