Responsibilities
Peraton is a company that takes pride in tackling impossible problems and creating real-time solutions that support our customer’s needs. We are passionate about building strong teams that are always improving to anticipate change, master the complex, and drive high-quality results. We are looking for an energetic, motivated professional to fill an Administrator position supporting a NASA contract at the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, TX. The qualified candidate will be a self-starter, who wants to learn and grow in the role and potentially qualify for greater responsibility.
Primary responsibilities include accounts payable, accounts receivable, invoicing, purchasing, and operational support for NASA Balloon Operations Contract program, including but not limited to:
- Manage invoices by verifying correctness, ensuring entry into corporate accounts payable system, follow-up with vendor and Corporate AP, and resolving invoicing issues (such as lost/missing invoices, late payments, incorrect charge numbers). Verify sufficient funds are available for invoice payment and notify appropriate parties when additional funds are required. Acts as single-point-of-contact for vendors with invoicing questions/issues.
- Entering purchase requests into the corporate purchasing request tool: Ensure correct data is entered (project charge code, purchase type, commodity codes, amounts, vendor information).
- Tracking Open Commits, identifying and verifying residuals/obsolete/unneeded lines, processing PO line closures as appropriate.
- Gathers, collects, records, tracks, and verifies data and information from multiple sources – analyzes data for insights and trends and takes action accordingly
- Knowledgeable on what and what not to share with vendors and customers
- Provides data and information to others inside and outside of the immediate organization.
- Other miscellaneous ad hoc tasks and actions as needed to support the program and the Business Operations group.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- BS degree and 2 to 4 years of experience or High School and 8 to 10 years of year’s experience in a similar capacity
- Understanding of common finance and accounting terms and processes
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
Desired Qualifications:
- Desired experience with Costpoint, Cognos, and/or equivalent systems
- Above average proficiency with Excel
- Experience working on a federal government contract
- Experience supporting a US-based international operation
- Detail orientation
- Flexible, highly organized; Excellent people interaction skills with both co-workers and vendors/customers.
Peraton Overview
Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.
Target Salary Range
$51,000 – $82,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
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An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Veteran.