Vendor Accounting Specialist

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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.

• 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.

• 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 a professional, clean and welcoming environment for customers, co‑workers and business partners.
• Efficiency: Demonstrate pride and ownership of their work while meeting expected deadlines.

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

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…