Accounts Payable Clerk

Posted 14 Hours Ago
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Rosemont, IL
Hybrid
Mid level
Fitness • Hardware • Healthtech • Internet of Things • On-Demand • Software • Manufacturing
Our purpose is to empower the world to work out, creating healthier lives together.
The Role
The Accounts Payable Clerk will handle various accounting and clerical tasks such as processing invoices, reconciling accounts, resolving discrepancies, and ensuring compliance with AP policies. The role involves maintaining vendor relations, verifying entries, and supporting audits.
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Join us as we empower the world to work out, creating healthier lives together.
About the Opportunity:
Are you a detail-oriented Accounts Payable Clerk interested in growing within accounting? Join our dynamic team at Life Fitness/Hammer Strength, where passion for fitness meets impact! Reporting to the Vice President & Global Controller, the Accounts Payable Clerk performs accounting and clerical tasks related to the efficient maintenance and processing of accounts payable transactions.
**This is a hybrid position based out of our Global HQ in Rosemont, IL - typically M/F are remote and T-Th are in-office collaboration days** #LI-Hybrid
Our AP Clerk will be responsible for:

  • Sort, code, and match invoices through the AP system
  • Reconcile processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances
  • Review payable invoices for accuracy and match to the purchase order submitted for authorization of purchase
  • Resolve invoice, or payment discrepancies and documentation; ensure credit is received for outstanding memos
  • Verify vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions
  • Set invoices up for payment, enter and post invoices to the system
  • Correspond with vendors and respond to inquiries
  • Responsible for maintaining compliance with AP policies and procedures
  • Monitor accounts to ensure payments are up to date
  • Provide supporting documentation for audits
  • Reports sales taxes by calculating requirements on paid invoices
  • Submit change requests to the supplier master database
  • Upload expense reports into the ERP system
  • Research and resolve invoice discrepancies and issues
  • Protects the organization's value by keeping information confidential
  • Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities


What we're looking for in our AP Clerk (Qualifications):

  • High School degree or equivalent required; Associate Degree preferred
  • 2-4 years of Accounts Payable experience
  • Computer literate, with proficiency in Excel
  • Attention to detail and problem-solving skills
  • Strong organizational and time management skills
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to multi-task and handle high volumes on a daily basis
  • Thorough knowledge of AP systems and techniques
  • Knowledge of Oracle ERP system and/or AP Express Accounts Payable system preferred


Want to take the next step in your career?
Life Fitness/Hammer Strength takes pride in our talented employees and believes in providing opportunities for further growth and advancement. We encourage you to test your strengths, push your limits, and unleash your potential. If you feel the position is right for you, we invite you to apply. We'll work with you closely to support you throughout the hiring process. If your CV/ resume shows that your skills and experience have synergy with the job description, then we'll hop on a call to get to know you and your experience and discuss the position in more detail. If it's not the right opportunity this time, we'll always let you know.
Life Fitness/Hammer Strength is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, are encouraged to apply. Life Fitness/Hammer Strength complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
There continues to be a significant increase in phishing attempts across all industries where fraudsters are impersonating real employees and sending fictitious job offers to applicants in a scheme to obtain sensitive information. Please note that Life Fitness/Hammer Strength will never ask for your financial information at any part of the interview process, including the post-offer stage, and will only correspond through "@lifefitness.com" or "@indoorcycling.com" domain email addresses or "[email protected]" for U.S. opportunities.
Life Fitness/Hammer Strength does not accept applications, inquiries or solicitations from unapproved staffing agencies or vendors.

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The Company
Rosemont, IL
2,500 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1977

What We Do

For over five decades, Life Fitness/Hammer Strength has crafted state-of-the art cardio and strength equipment that moves in sync with the human body, helping athletes and exercisers globally, become faster, stronger, and healthier.

We created fitness. Now we’re making it better.

In 1968 Dr. Keene Dimick invented the first piece of electronic fitness equipment – the exercise bike. His creative spirit is in our DNA and continues to inspire us every day.

Today, the way people live, work and play is ever-changing. A phenomenon that is putting new challenges on our collective wellbeing. As creators in fitness, we notice and act on this by innovating, engineering and manufacturing the best workout experiences that move every partner, customer, athlete and exerciser, forward together.

We believe that everybody gains from working out.

That is why, at Life Fitness/Hammer Strength, we partner with our customers to create intuitive, high-performance, cardio and strength solutions, that move with the body’s natural biomechanics to make every goal feel possible.
Driven by the standards demanded by elite athletes, we share a passion to engineer our products to be accessible to all – young and old, athlete and improver, well and in-recovery.

As experts in fitness equipment innovation, we set the bar for our industry. By never compromising on performance, quality, or reliability, we continue to raise that bar.

Our purpose is to empower the world to work out, creating healthier lives together.

Why Work With Us

We’re a customer-centric team, passionate about working together to deliver innovative fitness solutions that benefit both facilities and exercisers in over 160 countries. We value proactive collaborators who love a challenge, are eager to make a lasting impact, and are interested in growing with our business.

Inspire. Innovate. Make an impact

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