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 2020 to 2022.- Minimum
- $17.00
- Median
- $23.00
- Maximum
- $32.97
Job prospects for 2022-2026
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Job prospects for 2022-2026
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2021
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
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NAICS 5411, 541212% of jobs
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NAICS 4110% of jobs
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NAICS 917% of jobs
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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: 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: 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.
Note about CNP
Occupational information is provided based on the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016. The 5-digit code of the NOC 2021 is shown in parentheses for information purposes only for occupations that correspond to those of NOC 2016.
Official name of the NOC 1431 (14200)
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: April 28, 2023
