Employment Outlook
Accounts Assistant
Average wage for
Employment Levels
Around 51,800 people are currently employed as Accounts Assistants in Australia. This is set to increase slightly to 53,500 people by 2019, according to the Department of Employment.
Employment by State
37.6% of all Accounts Assistants are employed in NSW. The area with the lowest number of Accounts Assistants is TAS, with only 0.9%.
Gender Split
This is a very male dominated industry with 61% of Accounts Assistants being male and 39% female.
Age Brackets
The most popular age for people working as Accounts Assistants is 35-44 years old, with 37.7%. A small percentage (3%) of people get into this career path older, aged 65 and over. There is also a number of people who enjoy a career as Accounts Assistants, with 8.3% aged 55-59.
Hours Worked
Accounts Assistants work an average of 42.9 hours a week which is 2 hours higher than the average for all occupations.
Education Level
The majority of Accounts Assistants have a Bachelor Degree qualification (46.5%) or are at a Post Graduate/ Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate level (22.8%). 89.7% of people have a Cert III or higher, whilst 10.3% have a qualification which is Year 12 or lower.
Accounts Assistant Duties & Tasks
Preparing and processing documentation related to accounts payable and receivable
Reconciling invoices and despatching payments
Calculating, analysing and investigating the costs of proposed expenditure, wages and standard costs
Preparing bank reconciliations
Allocating expenditure to specified budget accounts
Summarising expenditure and receipts
Preparing records of standard costs and values for items such as raw materials and packaging supplies
Recording cost variations and contract price movements
Compiling cost data for preparation of operating budgets, and profit and loss calculations
Investigating the costs of proposed expenditures, quotations and estimates
Preparing reports of total costs, inventory adjustments, selling prices and profits
May work in a call centre
*The information provided on this page is from the Department of Employment’s Job Outlook website. All salary ranges are from Payscale. Where jobs are not exact matches, job areas have been used. This information is to be used as a guide only.
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