Key Responsibilities:
Recording and Maintaining Financial Transactions:
This involves accurately recording all financial transactions, such as sales, purchases, expenses, and payments, in the company's books of account.
Processing Invoices and Payments:
This includes receiving, verifying, and processing invoices, reconciling vendor statements, and ensuring timely and accurate payments to vendors, suppliers, and employees.
Maintaining Accurate Financial Records:
This involves keeping ledgers, journals, and other financial reports up-to-date, ensuring proper documentation of all transactions, and maintaining organized financial records.
Assisting with Financial Reporting:
Account Assistants help prepare financial reports, such as balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements, and may also assist with budgeting and forecasting.
Handling General Administrative Tasks:
This can include answering phones, responding to emails, filing documents, and other tasks that support the smooth functioning of the finance department.
Specific Tasks:
Data entry and updating financial records.
Reconciling bank statements and other accounts.
Preparing and submitting expense reports.
Preparing invoices and tracking payments.
Assisting with audits and other financial reviews.
Maintaining confidentiality of financial information.