1Netscope – Accounts & Book Keeping

Accounts assistant role, duties and responsibilities

An Accounts Assistant will be expected to perform any of the following tasks:

• Reconciling finance accounts
• Maintaining spreadsheets
• Credit control
• Preparing statutory accounts
• Cash allocation
• Sales order processing
• Managing daily post in and out
• Handling and writing cheques
• Receiving and processing all invoices, expense forms and requests for payment
• Verifying calculations working with the Accounts system
• Reconciliation of Direct Debit mandates
• Managing petty cash transactions

Person Specification

Typical qualities of a successful Accounts Assistant include:

• Strong understanding of the workings of an office
• Basic understanding of accountancy and book-keeping
• Would hold or be working towards an AAT certificate or related accountancy qualification
• Excellent interpersonal skills – to deal with customers and external contacts
• Good organisational skills and ability to work to, and sometime implement own  processes