Accounts Clerk

Overview

Monitors creditor and debtor accounts, and undertakes related routine documentation. May work in a call centre.

Skills

Most occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with the qualifications and experience outlined below. AQF Certificate II or III (ANZSCO Skill Level 4)

Tasks

• preparing and processing documentation related to accounts payable and receivable
• reconciling invoices and despatching payments
• calculating, analysing and investigating the costs of proposed expenditure, wages and standard costs
• preparing bank reconciliations
• allocating expenditure to specified budget accounts
• summarising expenditure and receipts
• preparing records of standard costs and values for items such as raw materials and packaging supplies
• recording cost variations and contract price movements
• compiling cost data for preparation of operating budgets, and profit and loss calculations
• investigating the costs of proposed expenditures, quotations and estimates
• preparing reports of total costs, inventory adjustments, selling prices and profits
• may work in a call centre

Alternative Titles

• Accounts Payable or Receivable Clerk

Specialisations

• Audit Clerk
• Investment Accounting Clerk

Related Occupations

• Cost Clerk