Accounts Assistant

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 finalisation 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 organisations accounting system.
~ Record and process all business transactions within the organisations 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.
~ Use relevant IT systems and tools effectively for data analysis.