What is the job description of a finance assistant?

Assistant Accountants assist in the day-to-day running of the Accounts Office. They help the Key Assistant Accountant and Production Accountant to maintain records of invoices and creditors' payments. They keep records of all transactions, and are usually responsible for the preparation of Accounts Payable, invoices and purchase orders, and petty cash and payroll calculation. Assistant Accountants also process cheques, maintain filing and invoice monitoring systems, and audit petty cash envelopes - as well as carrying out other duties assigned by the Production Accountant.

On larger productions the Production Accountant may hire additional Assistant Accountants and Accounts Trainees, who are responsible for data entry, processing cheques, filing, and auditing petty cash envelopes. Different Assistants are assigned to each of these tasks, e.g., one Assistant Accountant may carry out the duties of the central cashier, while another Assistant Accountant may be responsible for all the accounts payable.