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Accounting Clerk

Sims Metal
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 11/6/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/5/2025
Sims Lifecycle Services (SLS) is a global leader in electronics and reuse recycling with facilities across the globe. Our goal is to be the world’s best, safest, and most responsible recycling company. SLS serves global clients across a range of industries to securely and responsibly recycle and manage the disposition of IT equipment and electronic products.

Our asset management and recovery service enables businesses to meet both their social and legal obligations in the treatment of surplus electronics in a legally compliant, data secure, fully traceable, and environmentally sustainable manner. With our global reach, expertise, and infrastructure, SLS is able to provide a comprehensive solution for e-waste and IT asset disposition anywhere in the world.

Principal Accountabilities

  • Perform day-to-day invoicing of client inbound and/or outbound material
  • Create monthly statements for specific clients and request refunds as needed.
  • Ensure clients’ shipments are settled in a timely manner to not miss predetermined SLA’s.
  • Responsible for data extraction requests from other departments about past client settlements.
  • Work to streamline settlement processes to ensure efficiency, accuracy, and compliance with industry regulations.
  • Perform day-to-day invoicing of outbound customer sales, including wholesale and ecommerce sales.
  • Proactively interface with product sales teams at all SLS locations for problem resolution.
  • Prepare monthly reports for distribution to management.
  • Approve sales orders after verifying customer credit worthiness; review and approve any credit memos.
  • Assist in month end close by creating spreadsheets used for accrual purposes.
  • Support and recommend continuous improvement initiatives and foster compliance with quality requirements
  • Support and ensure compliance with all Company policies, procedures, and initiatives
  • Liaise with management, internal and external auditors, and operations.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Key Performance Indicator (KPIs)

  • Meeting Settlement SLAs
  • Provision of clear rationale and actions to rectify where issues prevent settlement
  • Processes up to date and accurate
  • Number of efficiency improvements identified

Key Relationsships

  • Internal – Plant Managers, Commercial, Product Sales, Accounting and Administrative personnel
  • External - Clients, Customers

Experience/Qualifications Required

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred, but not required
  • At least 3 years of accounting experience including clients/customers, AR follow-up
  • Prior experience using computer accounting systems

Skills And Competencies

  • Proficiency with MS Office Suite including Word and Excel
  • Competency in Adobe Acrobat
  • High degree of detail, accuracy, and personal accountability
  • Ability to communicate and work effectively with co-workers
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet various deadlines
  • Ability to work independently
  • Microsoft Dynamics/Navision experience preferred

With a promote-from-within philosophy and a variety of programs available to support continuous learning, Sims offers the opportunity for a rewarding career. We are committed to the ecologically sound and sustainable use of resources and strive to operate in a manner that minimizes waste and protects the environment.

A career with SLS provides you with the opportunity to work with an organization whose goal is to be the world’s safest and most responsible recycling company. Our people achieve this by creating a zero-harm workplace, being exemplary members of the communities in which we operate, and being responsible stewards of the environment. We also offer competitive pay and a range of attractive benefits.

SLS is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value the diversity of all of our employees and are committed to creating an inclusive working environment where everyone can contribute, advance on merit, and realize their full potential. SLS does not discriminate with regard to race, sex, religion, color, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, marital or familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, housing status, source of income, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws. This applies to any employment decision, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.  qualified applicants with a disability in need of a reasonable accommodation may request such without fear of reprisal or discrimination.

To achieve our purpose to create a world without waste to preserve our planet, we are guided by our Principles of Purpose: Be Safe Well, Band Together, Be Accountable Transparent, Consistently Innovate, Inspire with Purpose, Celebrate Have Fun.

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