Accounts Clerks
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Job description
These individuals calculate, prepare, and process invoices, accounts, and budgets. They also maintain other financial records according to established procedures. They work for private companies and organizations in the public or parapublic sectors.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Calculate data as well as prepare and distribute documents associated with the accounts.
- Code, total, batch, record, verify, and reconcile transactions.
- Compile budget data and documents.
- Prepare statements, cost reports, or periodicals.
- Calculate material costs, overhead, and other expenses.
- Respond to requests for information, maintain good relations with customers, and solve problems.
- Perform word processing, record keeping, and filing.
- Send and photocopy documents.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience and additional training allow access to supervisory or specialized financial positions.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $18.50
- Median
- $24.51
- Maximum
- $32.75
Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 85.1% Female
- 14.9% Male
- 85.1% Female
- 14.9% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
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NAICS 44, 4512% of jobs
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NAICS 5411, 541210% of jobs
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NAICS 239% of jobs
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NAICS 419% of jobs
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NAICS 916% of jobs
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Others54% of jobs
All of Québec
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NAICS 44, 4512% of jobs
-
NAICS 5411, 541210% of jobs
-
NAICS 239% of jobs
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NAICS 419% of jobs
-
NAICS 916% of jobs
-
Others54% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
Secondary
DVS in accounting
Placement rate: 72%
10.3% of graduates pursue further studies
DVS in comptabilité
Placement rate: 80.7%
8.8% of graduates pursue further studies
College
DCS in accounting and Management Technology
Placement rate: 45.4%
52.5% of graduates pursue further studies
ACS in comptabilité financière informatisée
Placement rate: 88.5%
3.8% of graduates pursue further studies
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Information processing
- Mathematics
- Reading comprehension
- Active listening
- Critical thought
- Written expression
- Oral expression
- Result evaluation
- Time management
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Written comprehension
- Mathematical reasoning
- Near vision
- Written expression
- Basic numeracy
- Verbal skills
- Awareness of issues
- Classification
- Information organization
- Inductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Selective attention
- Speech clarity
- Deductive reasoning
Knowledge and attributes
- Autonomy
- Capacity to adapt
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Honesty
- Capacity to work in a team
- Knowledge of mathematics
- Sense of initiative
- Capacity to be discrete
- Knowledge of office work
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work with numbers
- Work in an office
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
Official name of the NOC 14200
Accounting and related clerks
Job titles
- Accounting assistant
- Billing clerk
- Budget clerk
- Cost accounting clerk
- Revenue accounting clerk
- Costing clerk
- Assessment clerk
- Accounting and auditing clerk
- Patient-billing clerk
- Utilities billing clerk
- Freight-rate revision clerk
- Tariff clerk
- Fiscal clerk
- Tax clerk
- Treasury clerk
- Audit clerk
- Account audit clerk
- Journal entry audit clerk
- Control clerk - hotel and restaurant
- Cheque control clerk
- Bill clerk
- Freight-rate clerk
- Commis aux comptes clients
- Accounts receivable clerk
- Remittance accounts clerk
- Accounts payable clerk
- Accounts payable and receivable clerk
- Cost clerk
- Disbursement clerk
- Expenditure clerk
- Deposit clerk
- Wharf clerk
- Journal entry clerk
- Financial investigation clerk
- Cod (cash on delivery) clerk
- Finance clerk
- Investment clerk
- Balance clerk
- Rate clerk
- Traffic rate clerk
- Accounting clerk
- Accounting clerk - canadian armed forces
- Senior accounting clerk
- Junior billing clerk
- Billing machine operator
- Wharfinger
- Income tax return preparer
- Vault clerk
- Rate reviewer
- Currency sorter
- Voucher clerk
- Transfer clerk
Skill type
Business, finance and administration
Last update: January 29, 2026