Position Summary
Columbia Technology Ventures is the technology transfer office for Columbia University and a central location for many of the technology development initiatives, entrepreneurial activities, external industry collaborations, and commercially-oriented multidisciplinary technology innovations across the university. CTV’s core mission is to facilitate the transfer of inventions from academic research labs to the market for the benefit of society on a local, national, and global basis. Each year, CTV manages more than 400 invention disclosures, 100 license deals, and 20 - 30 new IP-backed startups, involving over 750 inventors across Columbia's campuses. CTV currently has over 1,500 patent assets available for licensing, across research fields such as bio, IT, clean tech, devices, big data, nanotechnology, materials science, and more.
CTV has extensive experience founding and supporting technology initiatives to enable promising technologies to accelerate across the “valley of death” and reach the market as quickly and successfully as possible. Many of these initiatives are explicitly multi-institutional, requiring extensive collaboration with our peer universities and their tech transfer offices. A few of the organizations CTV has been instrumental in establishing are the PowerBridgeNY clean energy proof-of-concept center, the NYC Media Lab, and the Columbia Biomedical Technology Accelerator (Columbia BiomedX), formally the Columbia-Coulter Translational Research Partnership. In addition, Translational Therapeutics (TRx) Resource was launched in 2016, in collaboration with the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and The Clinical Trials Office, to advance novel therapeutics from the lab towards the path of commercialization and clinical implementation.
CTV’s efforts are backed by 50+ full time staff and an additional 35+ graduate student interns (CTV Fellows), providing broad support to the Columbia community and other stakeholders with marketing, legal (patents, contracts, etc.), business start-up help, and administrative tasks. CTV also runs an Executive-in-Residence program, which brings seasoned industry executives, serial entrepreneurs, and investors to campus to support faculty and student entrepreneurial activities.
CTV is advertising for a Distributions Analyst to work as part of our Finance & Administration team. The F&A team has the responsibility for ensuring the efficient and effective execution of our various financial operations, including accounts receivable for license and legal reimbursement revenue, account reconciliations, distribution of revenue received, accounts payable, budget management, and projections. This role focuses on the distribution of licensing revenue, and ensuring the proper assignment of inventorship and allocation of distributable proceeds. As such, this position will be a good experience for anyone interested in the financial operations of intellectual property licensing, or any other revenue-generating business.
The candidate will report directly to the Business Manager, Distributions, but will also work closely with other areas within CTV and Columbia University.
Responsibilities
The Distributions Analyst will work as part of the Finance team in a critical but multifaceted role at CTV, working on all aspects of the distribution of CTV license income and accounts payable, including:
Minimum Qualifications
Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran
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