Job Description
-Ensures the integrity of accounting information by recording, verifying, consolidating, and entering transactions
-Prepares and records asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information
-Maintains and balances subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, and reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies
-Maintains general ledger by transferring subsidiary accounts, preparing a trial balance, and reconciling entries
-Summarizes financial status by collecting information and preparing balance sheet, profit and loss, and other statements
-Produces payroll by initiating computer processing; printing checks, verifying finished product
-Completes external audit by analyzing and scheduling general ledger accounts and providing information for auditors
-Avoids legal challenges by complying with legal requirements
-Secures financial information by completing database backups
-Protects organization’s value by keeping information confidential