Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst

At Cogstate, we're advancing the science of brain health - making it faster, easier, and more accurate to assess cognition across clinical trials, healthcare settings, and everyday life.

Our digital cognitive assessments are trusted by researchers, clinicians, and pharmaceutical partners around the world, helping to drive breakthroughs in neuroscience and improve outcomes for people living with neurological conditions. Founded on decades of cognitive science and backed by rigorous validation, Cogstate's assessments are used in more than 150 countries and over 2,000 clinical trials.

Our global team of experts - spanning psychology, data science, operations, and technology - works together to solve complex challenges in brain health assessment, always with a patient-first mindset. Whether we're supporting a multinational Alzheimer's trial or developing tools to bring cognitive testing into routine care, our work is meaningful, collaborative, and constantly evolving.

At Cogstate, we're not just imagining the future of brain health - we're building it.

That's why we're seeking a Financial Analyst, responsible for working with the Finance Team to support the delivery of goals and objectives of the Clinical Trials division within Cogstate.

The role is required to be a subject matter expert in the pricing of all external request for proposals (RFP's) and for creating internal monthly financial reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Create pricing for customer proposals based on RFP's received, internal inputs, and within company approved standards.
• Assist Project Managers in the creation or review of customer change in scope pricing (Change Orders)
• Coordination and development of all pricing & Forecast Trackers on newly signed projects, with ongoing support and analysis across all projects.
• Analyze financial data and provide forecasting support.
• Participate in constant review of customer profitability analysis to ensure key divisional KPIs are achieved
• Ongoing development and creation of reporting related to profitability, staff utilization and staff resourcing
• Provision of ad-hoc reporting as required for Marketing, Business Development, Clinical Trials Operations and / or Product Development. Incorporating and utilizing data and information sourced from within Cogstate
• Monitor and analyze monthly divisional employee time reporting; identify and escalate areas of concern
• Coordinate with Business Development and provide regular updates on the financial details and contracting of all new proposals and change orders in development.
• Assist Financial Accounting team in the consolidation of all forecasting on clinical trials studies, as well as estimates of future income and timing on all high probability and unsigned contracts in development

Requirements

Skills, Knowledge and Specialist Expertise

What's In It For You

Wage Range : $90,000 - $100,000 USD

Our Culture We bring our whole selves to work every day. We're courageous and we deliver together. We're passionate individuals who enjoy working together. We're brave enough and care enough to have the right conversations to get the best outcome and are famous for our can-do attitude. We see challenges as opportunities and move with pace to achieve our goals.

If you're ready to help us in our journey to optimize the measurement of brain health around the world, please apply now!

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