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Office Cashier

631112 · Light Next-day ready

Description

Receives payments from customers, issues receipts, returns change due, and meets the public and explains charging and billing policy.

Typical work tasks

Scans, weighs and records prices of goods; receives and processes payments for goods and services by cash, cheques, gift vouchers, credit and debit cards and other payment types; issues sales dockets and gives change; maintains supplies of change, wrapping and other materials used; counts and records money received and balances against register sales records, and prepares money for deposit in financial institutions; records and balances petty cash disbursements; operates a computer terminal to administer the store's financial transaction system; cashes authorised cheques.

Typical work environment

  • Employees work in an indoors office environment where significant amounts of cash are taken over the counter or brought to a central cashier’s office for receipting, counting and processing.
  • Employees work at counters and deal directly with the public.
  • Employees frequently work in adequately heated and ventilated spaces.

Typical physical and mental demands

  • Sedentary work demand levels.
  • Employees sit and/or stand at an office desk or counter.
  • Employees will need to operate adding machines, calculators and other office equipment and will refill paper rolls and ink supplies as necessary.
  • Employees occasionally walk about the office to collect payments.
  • Stretching, twisting, climbing and more than very light lifting will be unlikely.
  • Bending, squatting or crouching movements is unlikely to be required.
  • Frequent to constant repetitive hand and finger movements are necessary for operating electronic tills, adding machines, calculators and cash-handling.
  • Driving is unlikely to be required.
  • Use of office hand-held objects and equipment such as pens, calculators and staplers will be occasional to frequent.
  • Mental skills necessary include an ability to calculate, communication and record keeping skills.
Entry signal Reviewed

No formal entry barrier — can start without prior training. Flagged next-day ready.

Entry barrier No formal entry barrier
Licence / registration No licence required
ANZSCO skill level 5
Next-day ready Yes

How this was determined (model-generated): Office cashier: nil entry requirements, next-day ready.

Entry Requirements

  • Nil (ANZSCO Skill Level 5).

Further Comments

  • There are opportunities for flexibility of movement.