Accounts Payable and General Accounting Clerk Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Accounts Payable and General Accounting Clerk to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Ensures credit is received for outstanding memos;
- Reports sales taxes by calculating requirements on paid invoices;
- Willingness to take on numbers and data based projects which may edge just outside of the Accounting Department;
- Disburses petty cash by recording entry and verifying documentation;
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities;
- Protects organization’s value by keeping information confidential;
- Completes payments and controls expenses by receiving, processing, verifying, and reconciling invoices;
- Maintains historical records by filing documents;
- Reconcile processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances;
- Verifies vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions;
- Issues stop-payments or purchase order amendments;
- Maintains accounting ledgers by verifying and posting account transactions;
- Accomplishes accounting and organization mission by completing related results as needed;
- Charges expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoice/expense reports; recording entries.
Requirements:
- Vendor relationships;
- Advanced knowledge of Excel;
- Data-entry skills;
- Organized;
- Analyzing information;
- Attention to detail;
- Thoroughness;
- Tracking budget expenses;
- Accounting;
- General math skills;
- High School Diploma or equivalent GED required;
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field a plus;
- Previous accounts payable experience preferred.