Accounts Clerk
Job description
These individuals calculate, prepare, and process invoices, accounts, and budgets. They also maintain other financial records according to established procedures.
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 2019 to 2021.- Minimum
- $16.00
- Median
- $22.50
- Maximum
- $32.97
Job prospects for 2021-2025
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Job prospects for 2021-2025
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2020
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 84.8% Female
- 15.2% Male
- 84.8% Female
- 15.2% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2015
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
-
NAICS 44, 4512% of jobs
-
NAICS 5411, 541212% of jobs
-
NAICS 4110% of jobs
-
NAICS 917% of jobs
-
NAICS 48, 496% of jobs
-
Others53% of jobs
All of Québec
-
NAICS 44, 4512% of jobs
-
NAICS 5411, 541212% of jobs
-
NAICS 4110% of jobs
-
NAICS 917% of jobs
-
NAICS 48, 496% of jobs
-
Others53% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Secondary
DVS
in
accounting
Placement rate: 55.2%
21.2% of graduates pursue further studies
DVS
in
comptabilité
Placement rate: 75.1%
9.2% of graduates pursue further studies
College
DCS
in
accounting
and
Management
Technology
Placement rate: 42.7%
53.4% of graduates pursue further studies
ACS
in
comptabilité
financière
informatisée
Placement rate: 74.1%
7.4% 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 1431
Accounting and related clerks
Job titles
- Accounting assistant
- Invoice clerk
- Budget clerk
- Cost accounting clerk
- Revenue accounting clerk
- Accounting clerk
- Accounting and auditing clerk
- Patient-billing clerk
- Utilities billing clerk
- Freight-rate revision clerk
- Tariff clerk
- Freight-rate clerk
- Fiscal clerk
- Tax clerk
- Treasury clerk
- Auditing clerk
- Account audit clerk
- Journal entry audit clerk
- Costing clerk
- Assessment clerk
- Control clerk - hotel and restaurant
- Cheque control clerk
- Ledger clerk
- 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
- Traffic rate clerk
- Senior accounting clerk
- Junior invoice clerk
- Billing machine operator
- Wharfinger
- Tax return preparer
- Vault clerk
- Rate reviewer
- Currency sorter
- Voucher clerk
- Transfer clerk
- Commis aux comptes clients
Skill type
Business, finance and administration
Last update: July 4, 2022
