Assistant Accountants provide support to Accountants to analyse, report, and give advice on the financial records and dealings of individuals and companies. They also give advice in reference to record-keeping and compliance issues.

Duties performed by an Assistant Accountant include:

• Filing, checking and processing financial data entry
• Processing accounts payable/accounts receivable
• Providing customer service in financial transactions
• Assisting in processing payroll
• Front line cashiering and bank account maintenance
• Assisting with entering transaction data to ledgers and maintaining a general ledger
• Processing purchases and sales including EFT/e-business
• Producing GST reports.