Bookkeeping Clerk Resume

Bookkeeping Clerks are responsible for performing the financial calculations and for ensuring that a company's financial records are maintained in an accurate manner.

Bookkeeping Clerks have to maintain the company's financial records like incomes and expenses. Their duties and tasks can vary from handling specific tasks or maintaining the entire company's books. A Bookkeeping Clerk is required to perform his tasks on a computer and to use financial software in order to manage the company's records. Bookkeeping Clerks are also responsible for recording financial transactions like bill payments and payroll and for preparing reports and summaries for managers. They can prepare bank deposits by using the information from the company's cash financial transactions. Among the duties mentioned above, a Bookkeeping Clerk has to monitor loans and other accounts and to verify if the payments are up-to-date.

Start off with your name, address and contact details at the head of your Bookkeeping Clerk Resume. After that, you need to add a short introduction describing what the Bookkeeping Clerk position means for you and the qualifications summary emphasizing your best skills. After this, you have to add a strong and eye catching objective. This should be a brief sentence which should describe your goals and it should reflect your interest in the position offered by the company.

In the following section you have to add your professional work experience. This section has to run chronological from your last to your current position. Present what your duties and tasks were in every position and how you helped your department progress. Your last section has to focus on your education. Again, you have to add education from the last training or qualification. A successful applicant is required to have at least a Bachelor's and a Master's Degree in Accounting or other related field. When listing your education, remember that you have to add the name of the degree, the name of the school you attended and the location of the school. The last section has to be about your achievements. There you can add associations where you are member or other achievements.

Bookkeeping Clerks need to be highly responsible individuals and are required to possess exceptional organizational skills.

Contact Information
Name: David Kasper
Address: 379 Pike Street
E-mail: john.harmer@example.com
Marital Status: Married
Birth date: 18.10.1978

Objective
Looking to obtain a challenging and rewarding position as a Bookkeeping Clerk in a growth-oriented company where I can utilize my strong accounting skills

Summary
Organized Bookkeeping Clerk with ten years experience in processing accounting documents in order to initiate payments and billings, in processing receipts and maintaining the records of accounting activities; who possesses exceptional organizational skills

Skills and qualifications

• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Ability to organize and maintain the financial records of clients
• An excellent knowledge of office systems, protocol and equipmentStrong knowledge of record-keeping practices
• Client-oriented and time-management skills
• Proficiency in using various computer applications

Work Experience

Bookkeeping Clerk, Blue & Co, LLC, Chicago, IL, 2006- present
Duties and responsibilities

• Prepared invoices and added them into the computer system
• Responsible for checking vendor invoices, statements and payments
• Assigned codes for invoices
• Verified and recorded the expense bills
• Organized and entered the accounting data into the database
• Responsible for preparing the financial statements and reports

Bookkeeping Clerk, Lakeside Bank Chicago, IL, 2000-2006
Duties and responsibilities

• Responsible for updating the accounts receivable records
• Operated with accounting software in order to record, store and analyze information
• Complied with the bank's policies and regulations
• Checked and entered bank payments and deposits
• Responsible for reconciling the bank statements and records
• Checked the ledger balances

Education
Master's Degree in Accounting, Yale University
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Yale University

Achievements and associations
Dean's Lister, Yale University
Member of the America Accounting Association since 2006
Member of MBA Association since 2007

Areas of interest
Accounting

References
References available upon request