The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), Center for Computing Sciences, located in Bowie, MD, has an immediate opening for a Part-time as needed Accounts Payable Specialist role.
This opening is located at IDA’s Center for Computing Sciences in Bowie, Maryland (CCS). IDA offers a superior professional working environment. The Part-time position verifies and prepares invoices for payment for the CCS facility, ensuring that all forms are complete and are in accordance with all applicable IDA practice and procedures.
· Utilizes Costpoint to conduct quality assurance checks on incoming vendor invoices for compliance, accuracy, and structural completeness.
· Facilitates prompt vendor payments by verifying source documentation, reconciling balances, and accurately processing invoice batches through the general ledger.
· Reconciles check registers and balances general ledger accounts, resolves routine operational discrepancies, and escalates unresolved system issues to management.
· Manages data processing, physical-to-digital scanning, and localized information archiving systems. Maintains internal network integrity by securely transferring financial records to designated corporate storage drives and shared infrastructure.
· Performs other duties as assigned.
· High school diploma or equivalent, and four years of work experience performing any combination of general accounting and/or office support.
· Demonstrated ability to follow prescribed procedures in a timely and accurate manner, with discretion.
· Demonstrated ability to operate effectively under deadlines with tact and diplomacy.
· Previous experience using Deltek Costpoint Accounting System required.
· Ability to obtain and maintain necessary security clearances.
· MANDATORY REQUIREMENT: U.S. Citizenship is required.
IDA (Institute for Defense Analyses) – a not-for-profit corporation headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia just outside Washington, DC – operates three Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) in the public interest: the Systems and Analyses Center, the Science and Technology Policy Institute, and the Center for Communications and Computing.
Sponsors rely on IDA for dispassionate, fact-based, and scientifically rigorous research and advice to inform their decisions. Since 1956, IDA’s basic mission has remained unchanged – bring the best scientific, technical, and analytic talent to bear on issues critical to U.S. National security, in a research environment free of commercial or shareholder interests where objectivity and the public interest are foremost.
The work produced by IDA’s FFRDCs is characterized by unquestioned objectivity and high quality. Because of our unique relationship with our Government sponsors, IDA enjoys unusual access to highly classified and sensitive government and corporate proprietary information. We adhere to a strict regime for avoiding conflicts of interest. We are thus in the position of offering outsider perspectives on important issues with insider access to information.
Our diverse mix of professionals possesses expertise in a broad range of technologies and systems combined with deep knowledge of costs, policies, operations, and organizational matters. IDA continually renews and evolves its staff, integrating those newly educated in the latest advances in research with seasoned veterans of acquisition management, policy-making, and operational leadership roles in government and defense-related organizations. The exceptional creativity, determination, and commitment to service that IDA researchers bring to their work are the foundation of IDA’s excellence.
