Accounting Assistant

Position Summary

Perform a variety of routine basic bookkeeping and accounting duties including reconciling of various data, accepting payments over the counter and through the mail, financial record keeping, performing cashiering services, processing payments and preparing bank deposits; perform various payroll processing duties and respond to customer complaints and inquiries.

Job descriptions are intended to present a general list of tasks/duties performed by employees within this job classification. Job Descriptions are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job.

Minimum Education, Experience And Additional Requirements

Education and experience directly related to the minimum requirements below may be interchangeable on a year for year basis.

High school diploma or GED supplemented by fifteen (15) credit hours of college-level course work in business; and

Two (2) years of basic bookkeeping or accounting experience.

Preferred Knowledge

• Basic mathematical principles
• Customer relations techniques
• Operations, services and activities of a customer service program
• Principles and procedures of financial record keeping and posting
• Office practices, procedures and equipment including a computer
• Alphabetical and numerical filing systems
• Bookkeeping and accounting principles and techniques
• General procedures related to accounts payable and receivable
  
  

Preferred Skills & Abilities

• Deal tactfully and courteously with the public in handling complaints
• Operate a variety of office equipment including a typewriter, calculator and a computer
• Perform varied clerical work
• Learn to post amounts to various ledgers and prepare journal entries
• Accurately tabulate, record, and balance assigned transactions
• Communicate clearly and concisely
• Perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work