Finance secretary vs accountant

Differences between finance secretary and accountant duties and responsibilities

Finance secretary example responsibilities.

• Manage high volume of requests and correspondence from executives and colleagues, pharmaceutical representatives, patients and outside physicians.
• Process payroll using ADP online program.
• Check for any ACH payments online need to be record.
• Train with ADP from manual payroll entries to online payroll system.
• Record the monthly ACH payments so they can be upload in the bookkeeping system.
• Create a policies and procedures manual for the church, ensuring the needs of the church and IRS requirements are meet.
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Accountant example responsibilities.

• Manage preparation of the statutory financial statements and financial aggregates in compliance with IFRS and local applicable norms.
• Manage personnel financial matters including salaries, taxation procedures and other relate issues.
• Manage and monitor accounting procedures for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and coordinate and facilitate external audit requirements.
• Reconstruct and improve many balance sheet account reconciliations for easier reading and interpretation by senior level management.
• Perform complex general accounting functions, including preparation of journal entries, account analysis and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Maintain general ledgers and preparation of monthly and other periodic financial reports in accordance with GAAP and international accounting standards.
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