- Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
- Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
- Review accounts for discrepancies and reconcile differences.
- Prepare adjusting journal entries.
- Establish tables of accounts and assign entries to proper accounts.
- Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
- Report to management regarding the finances of establishment.
- Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems, making use of current computer technology.
- Advise management about issues such as resource utilization, tax strategies, and the assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
- Maintain or examine the records of government agencies.
- Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting, or other tax requirements.
- Advise clients in areas such as compensation, employee health care benefits, the design of accounting or data processing systems, or long-range tax or estate plans.
- Represent clients before taxing authorities and provide support during litigation involving financial issues.
- Provide internal and external auditing services for businesses or individuals.
- Prepare forms and manuals for accounting and bookkeeping personnel and direct their work activities.
- Appraise, evaluate, and inventory real property and equipment, recording information such as the description, value, and location of property.
- Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop, or maintain solutions to business and financial problems.
Overview
Accounting technicians typically work around 37 to 39 hours per week.
As a Accounting technician you will typically work between 8am and 6pm.
This occupation tends to be:
Attention to Detail Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. Integrity Job requires being honest and ethical. Dependability Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. Analytical Thinking Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. Cooperation Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
Read more about Accounting technician
Average salary
47,713 GBP
per year *
* data taken from the Office of National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)
Salary statistics
Average Salary
-
47,713 GBP
-
44,847 GBP
-
50,168 GBP
Average salary for part-time Accounting technician
-
25,473 GBP
-
27,431 GBP
-
21,505 GBP
-
47,713 GBP
-
44,847 GBP
-
50,168 GBP
Salary over time for Accounting technician
-
46,074 GBP
-
47,846 GBP
-
46,524 GBP
-
47,713 GBP
-
44,016 GBP
Future outlook for Accounting technicians
Ads