Accounts Payable | HR Clerk

At LMS Investment Management, our mission is simple: Create Community. Create Value.

We’re looking for a detail-oriented Accounts Payable & HR Clerk to support our corporate team and multifamily portfolio.

This position combines hands-on accounts payable responsibilities with payroll and HR administrative support. You’ll work closely with the Controller, Director of People, and property teams to keep payments accurate, records organized, and employee processes running smoothly.

What You’ll Do

Accounts Payable

• Support the full accounts payable cycle across multiple properties and entities, including invoice entry, coding, approval routing, purchase order matching, and payment processing in Yardi Voyager.
• Prepare weekly payment batches and additional payments as needed.
• Verify invoices are allocated to the correct property, unit, and general ledger account.
• Maintain corporate payables, utility invoices, and recurring payment schedules.
• Perform positive pay functions and reconcile ACH and wire payments to maintain accurate AP aging.
• Reconcile vendor statements, research discrepancies, and respond to vendor inquiries.
• Maintain vendor records, including W-9s and certificates of insurance, and assist with year-end 1099 reporting.
• Provide documentation for audits and deposit checks received at the corporate office as needed.

Payroll & Human Resources

• Assist with payroll processing, reconciliations, and reporting, and serve as a payroll backup.
• Help calculate and review commissions, bonuses, incentives, and other payroll items.
• Monitor timecard approvals and help resolve missing punches and other timekeeping issues.
• Support benefits enrollment, employee changes, open enrollment, and monthly billing reconciliations.
• Assist with 401(k), FSA, and other benefit administration.
• Coordinate onboarding and offboarding activities.
• Assist with employer registrations, payroll tax notices, and workers’ compensation administration.
• Provide support for job postings, recruiting, employee communications, recognition, and special projects.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least five years of accounts payable or full-cycle accounting experience.
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and reconciliations.
• Understanding of AP internal controls, general ledger coding, and accrual accounting.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage a high volume of transactions and competing deadlines.
• Clear, professional communication and a service-minded approach to working with vendors, employees, and property teams.

Preferred Experience

• Real estate or property management accounting, particularly across multiple properties or entities.
• Yardi Voyager and Yardi PayScan or similar invoice workflow software.
• Payroll, benefits, or HR administrative support.
• Vendor compliance and year-end 1099 reporting.

Working at LMS

Our values....Innovation, Integrity, Transparency, and Collaboration....guide how we work together and support our communities. This role offers the opportunity to contribute across accounting and HR while working with a collaborative corporate team.

This position reports to the Controller and works on-site at our Birmingham corporate office.