{"id":1182,"date":"2021-05-03T11:25:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T05:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartsampleresume.com\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2021-09-13T12:33:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T07:03:19","slug":"general-accountant-job-description","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartsampleresume.com\/job-descriptions\/general-accountant-job-description\/","title":{"rendered":"General Accountant Job Description"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2><strong>Introduction: <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A general\naccountant is a professional who prepares balance sheets, profit and loss\nstatements, and other financial reports. They are responsible for analyzing the\nlatest trends, costs, revenues, and financial commitment incurred to predict\nfuture revenues. They usually handle organization finance and management and\nprovide recommendations about various resource applications. A general account\nneeds to hold a bachelor&#8217;s degree in finance with 2 to 4 years of experience in\nrelated areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>General Accountant Job Titles:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>General Accountant<\/li><li>Accountant<\/li><li>General ledger Accountant<\/li><li>Accountant (Part-Time)<\/li><li>General Accountant (Full-Time)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>General Accountant Job Summary:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We are looking to hire a motivated\ngeneral accountant to handle the general accounting and financial processes of\nthe company. The candidate will be responsible for accounting tasks like cash\nflow preparations, booking journal entries, balance sheet, and income statement\naccount reconciliations. He needs to perform the financial transaction and post\nthem to the general ledger. This would be a great opportunity for accounting\nprofessionals to join a growing company where you will be able to work under\nthe guidance and direction of the company&#x2019;s controller. The job\nresponsibilities a general accountant must perform includes preparing daily\ncash report, assisting in preparing financial statement accordance with GAAP,\npost daily journal entries in QuickBooks based on daily accounting activity,\nprepare monthly reconciliation, reconcile sales revenue regularly, and assist\nin handling financial records by maintaining compliances with company policies\nand procedures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>General Accountant Responsibilities\nand Duties:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Produce asset, liability and capital account entries      and assess account information<\/li><li>Prepare financial transaction by entering data<\/li><li>Recommending financial action by analyzing accounting options<\/li><li>Condensing current financial status by collecting data, processing balance sheet, and profit and loss statements<\/li><li>Support financial transactions by auditing documents<\/li><li>Supervising regular accounting process like journal entries with monthly closure accounts<\/li><li>Arranging all company financial programs and secure compliance to the budgetary requirement<\/li><li>Examine and predict the financial requirement for the company<\/li><li>Monitor all financial transaction in a company<\/li><li>Implement all account payable check activation and wire transactions<\/li><li>Controlling departments in accounting reconciliation process monthly<\/li><li>Directing all banking transaction and overseeing data assessing procedures<\/li><li>Managing financial related programs and documents including plans and programs<\/li><li>Observing account reconciliation, tax, and calculations including cost accounting with factory date recording process. <\/li><li>Maintaining internal expenses in the company secure<\/li><li>Designing and managing audit schedules for external audit processer<\/li><li>Develop budgetary plans for processing as per requirement<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>General Accountant Skills and\nQualification:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Bachelor degree in finance or accounting<\/li><li>Must possess a minimum of 2 years of experience<\/li><li>Punctual, reliable and must have strong communication skill<\/li><li>In-depth knowledge about accounting regulations and procedures including GAAP<\/li><li>Experience handling accounting software like Fresh Book and QuickBook<\/li><li>Advanced skill in MS Excel including pivot tables<\/li><li>Expert handling general ledger function<\/li><li>Strong attention to details with great analytical skills<\/li><li>Awareness of business trend and expert create a financial statement<\/li><li>Expert managing general ledger function and month-end close process<\/li><li>Accuracy, aptitude for numbers and aptitude skills<\/li><li>Knowledge about reporting standard and experience in &nbsp;researching accounting issues<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>General Accountant Job Titles:<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Other Accountant Related Job Titles:<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>General accountant resume<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsampleresume.com\/job-descriptions\/fund-accountant-job-description\/\">Fund Accountant job description<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsampleresume.com\/job-descriptions\/general-construction-worker-job-description\/\">General Construction Worker Job Description<\/a><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsampleresume.com\/job-descriptions\/corporate-accountant-job-description\/\">Cooperate accountant job description<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: A general accountant is a professional who prepares balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other financial reports. They are responsible for analyzing the latest trends, costs, revenues, and financial commitment incurred to predict future revenues. They usually handle organization finance and management and provide recommendations about various resource applications. 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