Accounts Clerk
What the work is
Monitors creditor and debtor accounts, and undertakes related routine documentation.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Prepares and maintains accounting documents and records
- Prepares bank deposits and statements, and posts entries to general ledgers
- Reconciles accounts
- Summarises financial transactions, including expenditure and receipts
- Investigates and resolves invoice discrepancies
- Responds to internal and external account queries
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in the accounts office of a wholesale plant nursery that supplies garden centres. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- The month-end accounts balance and you know every line is right
- A supplier tells you they wish all their customers paid as tidily as you do
- You spot a double payment before it leaves the bank
Hard days
- A small difference in the bank reconciliation that takes all afternoon to find
- A customer insists they have paid and the money is nowhere
- Being asked to pay one supplier late so another can be paid on time
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 541131, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.