Vendor Accounting Specialist bei Scheels

Do you love sports, fitness, fashion or the outdoors? SCHEELS can turn your passion into a rewarding career through our extensive business and product training.

SCHEELS is a leader in the sporting goods industry - driven to create the best experience in the USA for our customers. SCHEELS boasts the largest selection of sports brands in America—offering world-class brands, special attractions, and unmatched customer service.

SCHEELS empowers our associates to become experts in exceeding the needs and expectations of our customers. SCHEELS associates talk-the-talk, and walk-the-walk, with the best product and expert training in the sporting goods industry. Mentorship and professional development training are a focus throughout your entire career.

Responsibilities: 

• Manage your assigned grouping of vendors, tracking receiving, invoices, credits, discrepancies, and other accounts payable information using internal reports.
• Accurately input and validate invoices, ensuring all necessary information is collected from appropriate systems
• Prepare invoices for the payment processing team and provide supporting information to resolve reconciliation issues.
• Investigate and resolve receiving and cost discrepancies by partnering with store teams, Scheels campus teams, and vendor partners.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for your vendors, handling invoices, credits, discounts, and deductions while keeping statements current on a monthly basis.
• Verify and record vendor communications related to business updates, payment methods, and other critical financial details, coordinating with internal teams to make timely updates.
• Leverage Excel, Google Sheets, and other reporting tools to analyze, organize, and present data to support decision-making.
• Regularly use core systems, checklists, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to complete work and stay current on updates or changes.
• Maintain an organized and professional work environment, including workspace, email inbox, and digital files and folders.
• Ensure consistent, high-quality communication and organization with internal and external stakeholders through email and other platforms.
• Meet deadlines and manage workload effectively and efficiently, especially during month-end close periods.
• Demonstrate professionalism and support a positive team environment by treating coworkers and vendors with respect.
• Maintain assigned schedule, typically Monday through Friday during standard business hours, with occasional evening or weekend availability.
• Supports team training when leadership determines readiness, contributing to the development and growth of the team.

Requirements: 

Customer Service

• Genuinely and consistently treat co-workers, customers and business partners like they are the most important person including eye contact, a smile and a genuine “Thank you”

Culture

• Approach daily tasks, projects and follow-up communication with energy and sense of urgency

• Cultivate a deep desire to become a knowledge expert in their role with the ability to apply their knowledge and experience with great impact. 

• Show respect and appreciation for others and Scheels

• Arrive to work and meetings 10 minutes early

Team Mentality

• Genuine interest and action in helping others before yourself, regardless of recognition or reward

Teach-ability

• Consistent eagerness to listen, learn, apply knowledge and accept critical feedback

• Ability to adapt to a changing work environment

• Ability to apply concepts of basic math, grammar, punctuation and spelling

Dress Code

• Meets Scheels dress and grooming expectations in support of professional, clean and welcoming environment for customers, co-workers and business partners

Efficiency

• Demonstrate pride and ownership of their work while meeting expected deadlines

Education & Experience:

Associate's degree; or one to two years of related experience

Physical Requirements/Lifting Requirements:

Must be able to sit, stand, bend at the waist, climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, walk, push/pull, lift, talk, and hear with or without reasonable accommodation.

Sedentary work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Roles are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Scheels cares about the health and safety of our Associates.  Associates are expected to follow all safety procedures and perform their job duties in a fashion that minimizes the risk of injury.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

 Scheels is an equal employment opportunity employer providing equal employment opportunities to individuals regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Scheels will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals when appropriate.