Top accounts payable clerk skills needed to get the job.

What are the top 3 traits or skills every accounts payable clerk must have to excel?

Can you suggest any tips or insights to develop your accounts payable clerk expertise?

Host said: What are the top 3 traits or skills every accounts payable clerk must have to excel?

Can you suggest any tips or insights to develop your accounts payable clerk expertise?

The most important trait is to be extremely detail oriented and very high attention to detail. It sounds simple but I have seen many people that just don't possess these qualities and it is so important especially as an A/P clerk since you will spend most of your days matching and reviewing invoices and paying the bills which can be very tedious and it is easy to make a mistake. What I tell people is that everyone makes mistakes, the key is to double or triple check your work before you give it to a supervisor for approval, this way it gives the impression that you make very minimal mistakes. Aside from this, I would research and become familiar with some of the common accounting softwares that you see listed on a lot of job postings such as Quickbooks, Peachtree, ect. Also, if you are not already proficient in excel, I would spend time becoming very good at it as a lot of work in the accounting world is done through excel.

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