Staff Accountant

Accounts Payable Specialist

Reports to: Director of Finance

Salary: $24–$26/hour, based on experience, plus bonus and benefits (see below). This is a non-exempt position; overtime during close periods is authorized and paid at applicable rates. Performance-based compensation reviews are conducted as responsibilities expand.

Overview

Year one is about mastering AP and learning NetSuite. From there, the work expands into reconciliations, ownership of close tasks, and financial reporting, with a title progression from Staff Accountant to Senior Accountant to Assistant Controller. How fast you move is a function of what you demonstrate, not a fixed calendar.

We're investing heavily in this position because we see it as the beginning of a long-term career within Sports Basement. Our hope is to hire someone excited to grow into broader accounting and finance responsibilities over time. If you're looking for a place to build a career—not just your next job—we'd love to meet you.

Sports Basement offers a fun environment for staff to share their love of the outdoors with co-workers and customers, along with a range of unique benefits that let our people live healthy, active lives.

This role is the entry point into Sports Basement's finance organization. You'll start in Accounts Payable because that's where you learn how the business actually works — every invoice tells you something about a vendor relationship, a store's buying patterns, or a process that needs fixing. Our Controller is building out the finance team, and we're hiring this position with the expectation that the right person grows into progressively more responsibility over the next several years.

We process thousands of invoices a year across inventory and non-inventory vendors, and getting them right is what keeps product flowing into sixteen stores. It's high-volume work, and it's also the best accounting education you can get.

Location and Schedule

Based full-time out of our Corporate HQ in San Francisco's beautiful Presidio. Monday through Friday, 9:00am to 5:30pm. Occasional extended hours during month-end and year-end close.

What You'll Do

• Post invoices in NetSuite, our ERP, verifying pricing and quantities against deliveries.
• Collaborate with buyers, receivers, vendors, and store staff to resolve product shortages, cost discrepancies, and other issues as they come up.
• Support store operations during peak seasons and events — sales floor, receiving, fulfillment, marketing events — getting real exposure to our customers, our products, and how the business runs outside the spreadsheet.
• Prepare weekly vendor payments, including checks and credit card authorizations.
• Perform vendor statement reconciliations to keep payments timely and accurate.
• Review and confirm accuracy of daily cash deposits.
• Prepare and submit chargeback disputes to credit card processors.
• Assist with month-end and year-end close.
• Look for ways to make all of the above faster and more accurate, and bring those ideas forward.
• Process and route incoming mail from our PO box.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. Recent graduates encouraged to apply — we're hiring for trajectory, not tenure.
• Proficiency in Excel and Google Sheets. NetSuite experience is a plus, not an expectation.
• Working understanding of invoices, purchase orders, receipts, and three-way match.
• Fluency with AI tools, and an instinct for using them. A lot of what accounting departments have always done by hand can now be automated, and we want someone who treats repetitive work as a problem to be solved rather than a task to be endured. If you've used AI to automate repetitive work, improve a spreadsheet, analyze data, or build a workflow that saved time, we'd love to hear about it.
• Comfort with high transaction volume and detail-oriented work. Accuracy at scale is the foundation everything else in accounting is built on.
• Strong written and verbal communication. You'll be in regular contact with vendors, buyers, receiving teams, and store staff, and those relationships matter.
• Ability to handle confidential financial information with professionalism.
• Curiosity about the business, not just the numbers. The people who do well here ask why a cost discrepancy happened, not just how to code it.

Our Process

Our interview process includes a short Excel and account reconciliation exercise, along with conversations with the Controller and members of the finance and operations teams.

About Sports Basement

Since 1998, Sports Basement has been more than a sporting goods store - we're a community hub offering the best brands at Basement prices, with giving back baked into our DNA. What started as a weekend-only shop in a San Francisco warehouse has grown into multiple fully stocked Bay Area locations, several newly opened Southern California stores, in-house snow and bike shops, a thriving rentals program, and a robust ecommerce website at sportsbasement.com. We've come a long way, and we couldn't be prouder of the company we've become.

Our Mission

We're here to help our communities shine a little brighter, live a little greener, and make the outdoors more fun and accessible for everyone. Because your gear is more than just stuff, and we're more than just a store.

Our Core Values

A lot of companies say they care about customers, community, and the environment. We do too - but what sets us apart is how we actually live those values every day. A few principles that guide us:

• Couches before profit
• Economical vs. Extravagant
• Volunteer vs. Donate
• Proximity vs Productivity
• O.K. is not O.K.
• Doers vs. Degrees
• Creativity before efficiency
• Autonomy before rules
• YES! vs. NO
• Safety before speed

Benefits

• Sports Basement offers competitive wages with real opportunities for advancement. Starting pay varies by location and experience - but the perks go well beyond the paycheck:
• Full health, dental, and vision coverage (full-time staff)
• Profit-sharing bonus pool
• 40% off our already low prices — for life (after 2,000 hours worked)
• A fully stocked kitchen with free breakfast, lunch, and/or dinner
• A free flight for every year-equivalent of hours worked
• Free skiing, camping, and biking trips through our Out of the Basement program
• Free use of rental gear
• 40% reimbursement on out-of-pocket costs for individual sports activities
• 401(k) plan
• Company ESOP retirement program
• Flexible scheduling for students