Study Finance and Commercial Performance Officer

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a Study Finance and Commercial Performance Officer to be part of the NIHR Cambridge Clinical Research Facility on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and support clinical research undertaken in the Cambridge Clinical Research Centre (CCRC), which houses six CRFs located in two buildings aligned to Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH).

CCRC provides state-of-the-art Inpatient, Day Case, Outpatient and specialist research facilities to support patients and healthy volunteers of all ages across a range of medical specialties participating in translational and early phase experimental medicine clinical research trials / studies 24/7.

You will play a key role in supporting the study set up and financial management of commercial research studies delivered by across CCRC, ensuring studies are costed appropriately across the lifetime of individual studies and set up within the national 150-day commercial trial set up timelines.

Main duties of the job

The role will focus on supporting study costing, financial monitoring, and finance study set‑up coordination across the CCRC.

You will maintain accurate financial data using NCVR Interactive Costing Tools (iCT) and EDGE Finance, contribute to performance reporting and assist in optimising processes that enable timely and effective study activation.

You will provide oversight of study costing and financial governance, contribute to process improvement and support the delivery of an accelerated Commercial Clinical Trial Pathway particularly for early‑phase, rare disease and ATIMP studies, ensuring CCRC remains commercially competitive, operationally responsive and financially sustainable.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can apply for this post as a secondment or fixed term contract. For secondments you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed term contract you are able to apply for this as a fixed term position.

The advert will close at midnight on 9 June 2026.

Interviews are due to be held in the week commencing 15 June 2026.

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.