WHAT DOES AN ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT DO?

The Accounting Assistant supports the accounting department in various tasks, including assisting with month-end, quarter-end, and year-end book closings, preparing documents for audits and regulatory compliance, and managing data entry for vendor invoices. Additionally, this role involves maintaining vendor files, assisting with check runs and audits, cross-training in billing and cash receipts, and performing clerical duties to support dynamic business activities and maximize organizational benefits.

An Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Accounting Assistant

1. Accounting Assistant Duties

  • Schedules of monthly internal consolidated financial reports and analysis, including actuals and forecast
  • Schedules of monthly consolidated financial statement package to T&I office and management reporting to senior management on timely basis
  • Prepare schedules of annual budget and quarterly forecast consolidation with analysis and breakdowns
  • Assist Deputy Finance Manager & Senior Accountant to handle statutory audit and tax filing in HK and Macau
  • Provide help desk support to travellers for queries regarding travel expense reimbursements
  • Verifications of supplier invoices and assistance in the Procure to Pay process
  • Assistance in the payment process of other administrative expenses
  • Assistance in the VAT compliance process
  • Accounting and reconciliation activities
  • Assistance in the production of financial reports


Experienced in Skills: Financial Analysis, Financial Reporting, Audit and Tax Knowledge, Customer Service, Procure to Pay Process, Expense Management, VAT Compliance, Reconciliation Skills

2. Accounting Assistant Details

  • Report to the Accounting Manager
  • Responsible for the accounting functions of seven international subsidiaries
  • Process for Accounts Payable and Receivable
  • Prepare monthly bank reconciliations
  • Maintain and reconcile monthly balance sheet accounts
  • Support the preparation of year-end working papers and documentation
  • Maintain relationships and communicate with international external professional groups such as accounting firms and financial institutions
  • Assists with the vendor communication and correspondence
  • Bank Reconciliations
  • Ensure accurate data entry, organization and maintenance of company accounting records


Experienced in Skills: Report to the Accounting Manager, International Subsidiary Accounting, Accounts Payable and Receivable Processing, Monthly Bank Reconciliations, Balance Sheet Account Reconciliation, Year-End Working Papers, Communication with External Professional Groups, Vendor Communication, Accurate Data Entry and Record Maintenance

3. Accounting Assistant Roles

  • Enter, maintain and update customer account information
  • Monitor accounts receivable email inbox and reply to customers’ requests promptly
  • Enter new employees in time and billing system
  • Assist in report generation and distribution
  • Serves as a backup for cash application and accounts payable data entry tasks.
  • Perform other data entry tasks on a monthly basis
  • Work on a variety of accounting projects 
  • Balance cash and check deposits and manage credit transactions
  • Work with Accounts Receivable: apply cash receipt, help with collection of past due balance, and process daily invoices/credit


Experienced in Skills: Data Entry Accuracy, Communication Skills, Time Management, Detail-Oriented, Adaptability, Basic Accounting Knowledge, Problem-Solving Skills, Team Player

4. Treasury & Accounting Assistant Responsibilities

  • Prepare all cash related journal entries accurately and timely, ensuring all proper documentation is attached.
  • Prepare all deposit entries in the accounting system accurately and timely, ensuring all proper documentation is attached.
  • Update the daily cash reconciliation spreadsheet every morning for the prior day’s cash transactions for all bank accounts per the banks cash report.
  • Review and investigate bank exceptions and recommend the appropriate action to the Manager.
  • Prepare all cash transfers, wires, and manual ACH entries in the bank system, and verify banking instructions via callback procedures.
  • Review and verify all void check requests making the appropriate entry in the bank system and communicating back to the appropriate accounting group when complete.
  • Loading and ensuring all accounting system bank files are properly received by the bank.
  • Maintain bank reconciliations for all Corporations and bank accounts in Enertia, investigate and resolve reconciling items in a timely manner
  • Communicate and provide documents to External and Internal Auditors
  • Effectively communicate timelines and details to internal personnel across all departments
  • Ensures transactions are recorded, presented, and supported in accordance with company policies and generally accepted accounting principles
  • Provide recommendations of process improvements, system efficiencies, or accounting polices


Experienced in Skills: Accounting Knowledge, Financial Analysis, Attention to Detail, Communication Skills, Banking Operations, Problem Solving, Software Proficiency, Process Improvement

5. Accounting Assistant Accountabilities

  • Own daily invoicing process from a sales order in our proprietary software into Sage 100
  • Log items that arise during invoice posting
  • Process customer payments via credit cards, and batching daily CC activity
  • Add or update customer information in Sage 100, as necessary
  • Compile and send custom invoices and statements to customers
  • Assist with monitoring account balances and ensure timely collection
  • Enter inventory receipts in Sage 100 and ensure receipts are consistent with purchase orders
  • Assist with entering vendor bills into Sage 100
  • Assist with various correspondence (customer or vendor account balance inquiries, mailing checks, distributing Form 1099’s, etc.)


Experienced in Skills: Accounting Software Proficiency, Attention to Detail, Financial Data Analysis, Invoicing, Payment Processing, Record-Keeping, Communication, Inventory Management

6. Financial Accounting Assistant Job Description

  • Responsible for Chasing the outstanding premium with the client & broker, contacting with the client, broker & account manager to follow up the premium’s receipts, assisting with regional Credit Control meetings.
  • Responsible for credit card collections and dealing with relative customer queries.
  • Responsible for ageing report, assist with financial reporting and audit-purpose reporting.
  • Perform basic payment - related transactions, i.e., broker payment, claim payment, accounts payable payment, or premium receipts.
  • Record cash book transactions on electronic bank system and process cash transactions
  • Balances and reconciles financial information.
  • Prepare and record routine journal entries in support of financial transactions.
  • Identify problems and elevate them to supervisors.
  • Prepare basic reconciliations in line with the AGB (Aetna Global Benefits) policies and procedures, pursuing outstanding items to resolution.
  • Complete general clerical duties as required.
  • Administer business procedures ensuring compliance requirements are satisfied.
  • Maintain strong collaborative relationship with customers and internal business partners to maintain a high-performance culture.
  • Provide professional, prompt, and accurate service to all internal and external customers.
  • Adheres to best practices and strives for continuous improvement.


Experienced in Skills: Financial Knowledge, Communication Skills, Credit Control, Financial Reporting, Payment Processing, Reconciliation Skills, Data Entry and Record-Keeping, Problem-Solving

7. Accounting Assistant Overview

  • Monitoring banking transactions on a daily basis to insure all transactions including outgoing ACH and Wire transfers and incoming ACH deposits are properly recorded on a daily basis.
  • Make Remote Deposits to bank on a daily basis.
  • Apply customer payments to accounts as received by Wire, ACH or Checks. 
  • Follow up on any discrepancies between amounts billed and amount paid
  • Record ACH payments to vendors
  • Reconciling bank statements.
  • Make general journals entries and recurring entries.
  • Reconcile various general ledger accounts.
  • Ability and desire to handle increasing responsibilities in the Accounting Department.
  • Assist in a variety of projects as assigned to meet the continual needs arising on a day to day basis. 
  • Willing and flexible to take on new assignments and challenges.


Experienced in Skills: Daily Transaction Monitoring, Remote Deposits Handling, Payment Application (Wire, ACH, Checks), Discrepancy Resolution, ACH Payment Recording, Bank Statement Reconciliation, Journal Entries, General Ledger Reconciliation, Increased Responsibility Handling, Project Assistance, Flexibility and Adaptability.

8. Accounting Assistant Responsibilities

  • Process vendor invoices and determine, prepare, and post monthly expense accruals.
  • Serve as administrator for our fleet program, including tracking and processing vehicle registration renewals, ordering decals, maintaining and balancing fleet database, distributing and returning license plates, and other related duties.
  • Assist with contacting new and existing vendors and researching departmental and vendor payment inquiries.
  • Reconcile general ledger accounts, post journal entries, and back-up other team members
  • Handle daily accounting functions including bank reconciliation, AR & AP
  • Prepare payment schedules
  • Administrative support and record keeping
  • Assist with month end closing, management reporting and annual audit
  • Proficient skills in basic MS Office Applications (Word, Excel, and Outlook)
  • Technical fluency in common software and applications, ability to acquire new technology quickly
  • Identify and seek needed information/research skills


Experienced in Skills: Accounting Knowledge, Excel Proficiency, Attention to Detail, Organizational Skills, Communication Skills, Problem-Solving Abilities, Software Proficiency, Administrative Skills

9. Accounting Assistant Accountabilities

  • Answer phones calls and assist in management of the office
  • Phone calls include making collections calls, coordinating payments with customers and vendors
  • Office management includes clerical work, directing calls, ordering supplies, coordinating schedules, special project requests, etc.
  • Accounting requirements include but are not limited to: daily accounts receivable process, payment of due invoices, cutting payment checks, collections.
  • Provide customers with information regarding payments and payoff dates.
  • Creating new job files, assigning job numbers and closing completed work orders (full cycle)
  • Balancing A/R and A/P
  • Daily receipts, deposits and reconciliations
  • Entering timesheets submitted by field team
  • Fielding phone calls and directing to appropriate department


Experienced in Skills: Office Management, Phone Communication, Collections, Clerical Work, Scheduling Coordination, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Data Entry

10. Accounting Assistant Tasks

  • Creates POs for Cloud products ordered
  • Creates and manages checklists for Cloud services
  • Manages Cloud change log
  • Prescreens monthly invoices for accuracy
  • Reviews and confirms all Cloud change logs, POs, and invoices to customers accurately match
  • Handles purchase order receiving
  • Enters and maintains licenses in a licensing database
  • Creates and mails customer statements each month
  • Enters and tracks purchase/receivables (AP)
  • Creates Client Savings Reports on admin cover letters to clients


Experienced in Skills: Accounting Knowledge, Attention to Detail, Organizational Skills, Data Entry Proficiency, Communication Skills, Problem-Solving, Software Proficiency, Time Management

11. Accounting Assistant Additional Details

  • Acts as a backup to Accounting Coordinator for invoicing, daily deposit, and Account Payables (AR) Reports
  • Assists with healthcare vendors
  • Receives inventory/shipments 
  • Creates/maintains/posts employee lists (IE: parking schedule)
  • Assists with miscellaneous report generation for various departments
  • Assists in filing for all departments
  • Assists with planning and execution of events, both internal and external
  • Assists with supply ordering
  • Assists in composing and editing routine correspondence and other business documents


Experienced in Skills: Invoicing and Account Payables (AR) Knowledge, Healthcare Vendor Management, Inventory Management, Data Entry and Record-keeping, Report Generation, Filing and Documentation, Event Planning and Coordination, Supply Management and Procurement

12. Accounting Assistant Essential Functions

  • Prepare a reconciliation of submitted credit card activity on a weekly and monthly basis and resolve reconciling items through research in a timely manner
  • Process approved journal entry vouchers into the Banner accounting system
  • Prepare data files for upload to financial records for postage charges, telephone charges, copier allocations, mileage reimbursements, and other items as needed
  • Assist in month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing processes
  • Responds to inquiries and researches and resolves concerns or discrepancies
  • Constantly operates a computer and other office machinery.
  • Constantly visually identifies, observes, and assesses.
  • Frequently communicates with university constituents.
  • Frequently remains in a stationary position (standing and/or sitting). 
  • Occasionally moves to accomplish tasks and/or to get from one worksite to another.
  • Occasionally moves common office materials.


Experienced in Skills: Reconciliation Skills, Journal Entry Processing, Data Management, Month-end, Quarter-end, and Year-end Closing, Problem Solving, Computer Proficiency (MS Office), Technology Adaptability, Research Skills.

13. Accounting Assistant Role Purpose

  • Processing invoices and cash sales, ensuring payments and deposits are recorded on customers’ accounts in a timely manner, managing AR aging including collection of delinquent AR
  • Works with Customer Service to ensure refunds, cancellations, or other changes are billed appropriately
  • Pays vendors by monitoring invoices, scheduling and preparing payments
  • Resolving purchase order, contract, invoice, or payment discrepancies and documentation
  • Ensure credit is received for outstanding credit memos
  • Coordinates with external accountants and prepare documentation for monthly VAT reporting
  • Prepares reports and documentation for the purposes of global tax reporting and company-wide audit
  • Collaborates with vendors and Fully’s management to streamline the procurement process and establish controls and procedures for order placement
  • Assist with inventory management and controls
  • Comfortable with performing other accounting and clerical functions to support the accounting department


Experienced in Skills: Processing invoices, cash sales, AR aging management, billing adjustments, vendor payment handling, problem resolution, credit management, tax reporting, procurement optimization, inventory support, general accounting, and clerical tasks.

14. Accounting Assistant General Responsibilities

  • Assist with month-end financial reporting
  • Assist with accounts payable, accounts receivable, and reconciliations
  • Prepare financial documents required for audits
  • Tackling ad hoc projects as needed
  • Execution of invoice corrections and VAT refunds
  • Preparation of damage calculations
  • Administration of the dunning system
  • Preparation of the direct debit collection
  • Support with general administrative tasks
  • Assistance with account reconciliation (cash desk, banks)
  • Assistance with the review and cleansing of accounts receivable


Experienced in Skills: Financial Reporting, Accounts Payable and Receivable, Reconciliation Skills, Audit Preparation, Problem Solving, Taxation and VAT, Data Analysis, Administrative Proficiency.

15. Accounting Assistant Key Accountabilities

  • Issues, tracks and matches purchase orders and receivers to invoices.
  • General Ledger coding & data entry of invoices.
  • Inputs and files vendor invoices.
  • Processes invoices for payment; prints and mails account payable checks.
  • Maintains accounts payable files, records, archives and spreadsheets.
  • Processes distributor customer chargebacks and expense invoicing in sales promotion software and manages upload and posting into Microsoft Navision ensuring proper coding.
  • Coordinates directly with sales team on customer promotions including obtaining necessary approvals and documentation.
  • Processes Concur employee expense payments and related postings in Microsoft Navision.
  • Responds to vendor and employee inquiries regarding invoices, expenses, and check requests; assists with discrepancy reconciliation.
  • Prints and routes account payable reports.
  • Responds to employee Microsoft Navision purchase order problems and questions.
  • Works with Purchasing and Receiving departments to resolve open purchase order issues.


Experienced in Skills: Purchase Order Management, General Ledger Coding, Invoice Processing, Payment Processing, Accounts Payable Management, Software Proficiency (Microsoft Navision), Communication and Coordination, Problem-Solving and Customer Service.

16. Accounting Assistant Roles and Details

  • Support accountant to run accounting operation: support to implement, maintain and develop procedures for month/quarter/year end SAP accounting book closing
  • Support to prepare proper information/data/file base on statutory regulator/business partner requirement
  • Support accountant to produce year-end statutory audit report
  • Engage with key internal business partners to keep accounting compliance, support dynamic biz activities and maximize Intel benefit
  • Data entry of vendor invoices
  • Assist with weekly check runs
  • Maintain vendor files
  • Assist with various projects and audits
  • Cross-train for billing department and cash receipts
  • Assist with clerical tasks 
  • Assists with company audits and tax requests.


Experienced in Skills: Accounting Knowledge, SAP Proficiency, Compliance and Regulatory Knowledge, Data Management, Vendor Management, Financial Reporting, Interpersonal Skills, Adaptability and Multitasking, Billing and Cash Receipts, Problem-Solving, Audit and Tax Compliance, Tech Savvy