Audit Clerk

Audit clerks are an organization's financial record keepers. Audit clerks maintain and update individual or groups of accounting records. These can include receipts, expenditures, profit and loss, and also accounts payable and receivable. An audit clerk must be comfortable with undertaking numerous data computations every day. He or she must also be familiar with using computers to calculate data.

Other duties may include checking records and verifying transactions posted by other workers. Audit clerks also check documents to ensure that they are correctly coded and mathematically correct. Correcting or noting errors, and then passing these findings on to an accounting person, is another duty for the audit clerk. Nearly all of these duties are performed in an office environment.

The end of the fiscal year, tax periods and monthly and yearly audits are very busy times for audit clerks. At such times, they are often required to work much longer hours in addition to their scheduled work hours.

Job requirements
An audit clerk should
• be very detail-oriented
• have a keen eye for figures in order to spot errors by others
• be error free in their own work
• be trustworthy and discreet.

Job qualifications
Most audit clerks are required to have some form of qualification. A high school degree is a minimum requirement. Having some college qualifications is also important, and some employers require an associate degree in accounting or business. Employers also prefer candidates with computer experience. Knowledge of spreadsheet software and word processing is also preferable.  Once employment has been found, auditing clerks usually receive on the job training from either a supervisor or senior member of staff.

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