ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT

Job Description & Requirements

The Accounts Assistant reports to the Accountant to support the finance department in carrying out the responsibilities of the accounting department. He/She covers duties such as work that is specific to accounts receivable, accounts payable, tax filing, data compilation, billing, payroll or other accounting tasks. He/She works specifically with accruals, fixed assets accounting or the monthly and yearly finalization of accounts for audit purposes. He/She assists with the preparation of trial balance, basic financial statements and simple consolidated financial statements. He/She may be called on to participate in ad-hoc finance-related projects and systems testing when necessary.

~ Assign account codes to all transactions in the accounting system.

~ Calculate customer/supplier account balances and reconcile with totals.

~ Compile the relevant business documentation used in banking processes.

~ Enter accurate and timely data into the accounting system.

~ Maintain accurate financial records and statements.

~ Perform month-end closing activities.

~ Process payroll transactions into the organizations accounting system.

~ Record and process all business transactions within the organizations accounting system using principles of double-entry accounting.

~ Record transactions and events relating to inventory, accruals, prepayments, capital structure and finance costs.

~ Record transactions and events relating to sales, purchases, receivables, payables and cash.

~ Retrieve system reports from the accounting system for managements use.

~ Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and computerized accounting software (Such as SAP)