Accounting Clerks

Accounting Clerks monitor creditor and debtor accounts, undertake related routine documentation, and calculate and investigate the cost of wages, materials, overheads and other operating costs.

• 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