Accounting Assistant Test

Accounting assistants provide administrative support to accountants, undertaking clerical tasks such as typing, filing, making phone calls, handling mail, and basic bookkeeping. They perform various clerical/accounting functions supporting the company's or department's financial tracking, processing, and reporting requirements. The work may involve general accounts payable/receivable or related financial areas. The work is mostly structured, with procedures and guidelines available regarding how assignments should be completed. However, they may occasionally be required to develop alternative solutions and approaches.

Other duties and responsibilities of the job include:

• Working with spreadsheets, sales and purchase ledgers, and journals. 
• Preparing statutory accounts. 
• Calculating and ensuring payments, amounts, and records are correct. 
• Sorting out the incoming and outgoing daily post and answering any queries. 
• Managing petty cash transactions. 
• Controlling credit and chasing debt.
• Reconciling finance accounts and direct debits. 
• Reconciling cash accounts between the bank statement and general ledger. 
• Recording journal entries. 
• Completing internal audit procedures. 
• Converting documents to PDF format. 
• Entering general ledger data into the depreciation, performance measurement, and ancillary systems. 
• Assembling documents in response to independent auditor requests. 
• Entering budget information into an accounting system. 
• Assisting in preparing monthly and quarterly investor reports. 
• Preparing sales tax and other government filings. 
• Running reports from the general ledger and ancillary systems. 
• Entering invoices into the accounts payable system. 
• Prepare supporting schedules.
  

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KEY SKILLS REQUIRED:

• ACCOUNTING / BOOKKEEPING - Accounting Fundamentals
• EXCELLENT COMMUNICATION AND INTER-PERSONAL SKILLS - Verbal Ability and Verbal Reasoning
• ABILITY TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AND THINK CREATIVELY - Quantitative Aptitude and Spatial Intelligence
• DETAIL-ORIENTED WITH A HIGH LEVEL OF ACCURACY IN OUTPUT
• STRONGLY PROFICIENT IN MICROSOFT WORD AND EXCEL - Excel Basics