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Job Description
Brief description
The position of accounts assistant consists of being responsible for accounting, classifying, and recording numerical data to keep financial records complete.
Tasks
- Audit daily sales reports submitted by location management;
- Daily recording of cash receipts and maintenance of debtor’s ledger.
- Complete special projects and miscellaneous assignments as required;
- Ensure that work area is clean, secure, and well maintained;
- Handle customer and employee accounts receivable;
- Maintain files, including filing of general ledger journal vouchers, accounts payable documentation, and other miscellaneous filings;
- Maintain regular contact with other departments to obtain and convey information or to correct transactions;
- Post data to sales journal;
- Prepare requisitions for office, computer, and routine supply purchases;
- Type a variety of documents, reports, and records.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or similar;
- Ability to give full attention to what other people are saying, and to use logic and reason to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions;
- Ability to monitor or assess performance of yourself, other individuals, or organization to make improvements or take corrective action.
Competencies (in order of importance)
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
