Accounts Clerk
551111 · Sedentary Next-day readyDescription
Monitors creditor and debtor accounts, and undertakes related routine documentation. May work in a call centre
Typical work tasks
Prepares and processes documentation related to accounts payable and receivable; reconciles invoices and despatches payments; calculates, analyses and investigates the costs of proposed expenditure, wages and standard costs; prepares bank reconciliations; allocates expenditure to specified budget accounts; summarises expenditure and receipts; may work in a call centre.
Typical work environment
- Indoor office environment which may range from a large corporate-type head offices down to a smaller sole-charge office.
- Works predominantly at office desks, usually with a computer workstation.
- Usually works in adequately heated and ventilated spaces.
Typical physical and mental demands
- Physical demand level is sedentary.
- Employees spend the day predominantly sitting at a workstation carrying out a variety of both manual and computerised data entry and processing tasks.
- Employees will also need to operate printers, copiers and a range of other minor office equipment and refill paper trays and ink supplies.
- Occasional standing and walking about the office is required.
- Lifting, stretching, twisting or climbing is not a significant component of the job.
- Repetitive arm hand and finger movements are constant in regards to data-entry and data processing tasks.
- Bending, squatting or crouching is not a significant component of the job.
- Driving is not required.
- Use of minor office hand-held objects such as pens, calculators and staplers, as well as telephones will also be occasional to frequent.
- Mental skills necessary include a high level of concentration, mathematical accuracy, and organisation skills.
Enter via experience or on-the-job training; no mandatory pre-entry qualification. Flagged next-day ready.
How this was determined (model-generated): Accounts Clerk: 1 yr experience or low qual, on-the-job training sufficient; no licence.
Entry Requirements
A New Zealand Register Level 2 or 3 qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 4) or at least one year of relevant experience. In some instances particular experience and/or on-the-job training may be required. For entry-level positions on-the-job training is sufficient.
Further Comments
- There are opportunities for flexibility of movement.