Accounting Clerks – also known as finance clerks or bookkeepers, are responsible for accounts and financial records for businesses of all types and sizes. An accounting clerk can be responsible for processing invoices, receipts and payments, managing payroll, preparing income and expenditure statements, preparing tax returns filing, preparing balance sheets, and assist accountants. Accounting clerk needs to manage computerised and paper based finance and accounting management. Accuracy and detailed planning skills are required.

Accounting clerks have to double check entries made to the accounts, prepare wages, process expense claims & all areas of payroll management and use computerised accounting systems.

In big organizations, accounting clerks have specialised tasks like managing payroll or managing sales or purchase ledger. In smaller organizations, you will need to handle multiple tasks and in some cases you will even handle day to day money transactions. In such cases, you will be responsible for the whole of accounts department. Accurate entering of accounts and troubleshooting inaccuracies are also the primary responsibilities of accounts clerk.