Accounts Assistant
Support a finance team to ensure that accounts and payments are accurately processed.
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- What's it like to be an Accounts Assistant?
- How to become an Accounts Assistant
- Latest Accounts Assistant jobs
- Top skills and experience for Accounts Assistants
- Is Accounts Assistant the right role for you?
- Accounts Assistant role reviews
What's it like to be an Accounts Assistant?
Accounts Assistants usually work as part of a finance team or supporting a financial practitioner to ensure that particular accounts, payments and bank reconciliations are accurately and efficiently processed. Accounts Assistants are important members of a finance team, and may be particularly busy at certain times, such as when they are preparing and finalising month-end and year-end accounts, audits and reports.
Tasks and duties
- Preparing and processing payments and invoices, reconciling accounts and expenditures.
- Preparing financial statements and budgets, including profit and loss statements.
- Supporting financial practitioners and senior staff members as required, which may include processing documentation related to taxation, financial reporting, operating budgets, quotations and inventory adjustments.
How to become an Accounts Assistant
Being an Accounts Assistant is one of the first steps you can take towards forging a successful career in accounting or finance. Recent accounting graduates or people studying accountancy are ideally situated to work as an Accounts Assistant.
- Undertake study in accounting or finance. This may be a Diploma of Accounting (FNS50217) or a Certificate IV in Business (Administration) (BSB40120).
- Gain experience in the field and if you wish to further your career within accounting consider further study, such as a Bachelor of Accounting.
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Accounts Assistant employers on SEEK are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Invoicing
Reconciliations
Accounting
Xero Accounting Software
Bank Reconciliations
Data Entry
Bookkeeping
Payroll
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Latest Accounts Assistant reviews
May 2021
Account Assistant is the easiest without physical works but the hardest one in mindset role.. However, I love this crazy role !
Reviewer's QualificationBachelor of Commerce
Experience5 – 9 years
Organisation sizeMedium (20-199 employees)
Specialisationretail clerk invoicing
The good thingsFor me being a accounts assistant will help you determine the expenses and income of the company, how the cash flow works, and helping the accountants to solve the issue. Through this you will have th...
The challengesIssues and challenges that I normally face is to work under pressure and you need to be detail oriented else the blame is yours. However, doing it repeatedly can cope yourself from doing the mistakes.
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Jun 2025
It requires more attention to detail and less use of communication skills
Reviewer's QualificationCertificate IV in Accounting and Bookkeeping
ExperienceLess than a year
Organisation sizeSmall (1-19 employees)
SpecialisationAccounting
The good thingsI like the role because it gives me time to take care of myself. I can work from home sometimes, and my job involves working on the computer, which gives me a greater sense of peace.
The challengesOne of the things I don’t enjoy about my job is that it requires a high level of concentration and is very repetitive.
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