Job Description
This position is responsible for keeping accurate records of both accounts payable and accounts receivable, ensuring that invoices are paid where necessary, and that clients pay invoices as required, accounting specialists perform additional duties, such as preparing departmental reports and cost projections. Also use receipts and other documents to verify and process transactions, record and analyze financial information, communicate with lenders, clients, and suppliers, and assist with daily, monthly, and yearly accounting activities and projects.
Main responsibilities:
- Using documents to verify, record, and process transactions.
- Maintaining accurate and complete records, including ledgers, journals, invoices, receipts, and information related to supplies and inventory.
- Assisting the accounting department in daily, monthly, and annual activities, including generating financial reports, developing budgets, preparing taxes, and assisting with audits and resolving discrepancies.
- Speaking with vendors and suppliers to ensure charges are accurate and that payments are received in a timely manner.
- Communicating with clients to discuss account statuses, charges, or discrepancies.
- Tracing costs back to underlying activities.
- Construct and monitor those cost-effective data accumulation systems needed to provide an appropriate level.
- of costing information to management.
- Create and review the controls needed for data accumulation and reporting systems.