Staff Accountant Job Description
In the accounting department, after the account manager, a staff accountant is the next vital designation to run this department accurately. The staff accountant is a professional accountant and experienced in maintaining records, monthly or yearly balance sheets, budget reports, expense sheets, audit reports, general ledgers, and financial statements.
They should be professional in all the tasks and qualified for this job.
Job Description:
A company needs a person for this job who is experienced and very professional in this field, must have accounting abilities. A staff accountant must have strong managerial and analytical qualities, have educational qualifications for this job, and have good verbal skills.
They prepare ledger accounts and professional in journal entries. They are experienced in analyzing bank statements and general stores, rearing balance sheets, must have internal control, maintains all accounting data and reports, and assisting their seniors in accounting, auditing, or consulting in tax matters.
A staff accountant is responsible for all payable orders and their payments. Their daily routine is to manage cash accounts, check daily transactions and accuracy, balance budgets daily, daily reports, and handle clients and communicate with them.
For this job, a candidate should be a degree holder in accounts and have at least two years of experience in this field.
A staff accountant should be professional in his duties and responsibilities.
Job Responsibilities & Skills:
• Manage all the financial accounts and their records.
• Maintain balance sheets and financial statements.
• handling payable accounts.
• Must be proficient in maintaining data and records.
• experienced in software that is used to maintain accounts.
• Maintain ledger accounts, budget sheets, and general accounts.
• Must be accuracy exert.
• Maintain a record of monthly payments.
• Attend meetings.
• Assist their seniors.
• We are experienced in legal matters and agreements.
• Maintain financial reports.
• Must perform administrative duties.
• Maintain analysis reports.
• Should be a team player.
• Proactive in all tasks.
• Ability to work in detail and covers each aspect of this job.
• Quality to compete with challenging situations.
Educational Requirments:
• BA degree in finance or accounts.
• Should have some previous years experience.
• Professionals in MS Office and Excel.
• Sometimes a primary care experience is a plus.
• Must know basic accounting rules and ledger accounts, transaction entries.
• Accuracy is the critical skill and requirement of this job.
• Strong managerial and critical analysis skills.
• They are professionally organized.
A Staff Accountant is the heart of a company who is behind the position of strength, paced up the projects, eased the fluency, and also adding pace to your business.
