University Success: Accountant Role, Job Description and Resources

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the accountant job role, focusing on its significance in career development. It begins by identifying the accountant as an ideal job, emphasizing its growth potential and market demand. The report then details the job description, outlining responsibilities such as managing financial transactions, preparing financial statements, and maintaining accounting controls. A person specification is also provided, covering essential and desirable attributes, education, knowledge, experience, skills, and personal qualities. Furthermore, the report explores various resources for job searching, including LinkedIn, Facebook, and Indeed, highlighting their benefits for connecting with recruiters and accessing job opportunities. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of utilizing available resources for making informed career decisions and achieving success in the competitive job market. References to relevant books and journals are also included to support the analysis.

Preparing for Success at
University – Knowledge
& Creativity

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
Ideal Job .....................................................................................................................................1
Job description for the role .........................................................................................................1
Person specification and How you are qualify for job ..............................................................2
Different resources for job finding process ...............................................................................4
CONCLUSION ..............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Every individual seeks for impressive level of growth and development in their career in
order to gain higher level of satisfaction because it is viewed as a basic need for pupil. In regard
of this report, the chosen ideal job role is accountant who are obliged to take care and monitor all
financial aspects of an organisation for enriching the overall proficiency ratio in an amended
mode (Afnawati, Inayati and Pratama, 2018). it includes the identification of ideal job,
development of job description and person specification. Finally, determine various resources to
get place in a right organisation for attaining sustainable growth or success.
MAIN BODY
Ideal Job
The aspect regarding a successful career and bright future is one of the crucial
challenging factor in every kind of students life. This is because choosing an appropriate field or
the area which gives them more satisfaction and growth impact directly over pupil decision
making skills or process. However, in context of this report, a student make an initiative to
evaluate own skill and personnel interest in order to implement best strategic decision. Hence,
the identified ideal job role is accountant. The reason behind choosing this area is that according
to the current market competition or demand, accountants is determined as one of the wide scope
area in terms of growth, enhancement of skills, income generation, explore in knowledge and
many more. Henceforth, An Accountant is relate to those individual who perform and take care
of all financial activities such as collection, accuracy, recording, analysis and presentation of
firm, managing financial operation with an aim of accomplishing the business goal in an
effective manner (Bell, 2018).
Job description for the role
Accountant is an individual who perform allotted roles and responsibilities within a
financial institute. The person is a practitioner of accounting or accountancy which is the
evaluation, disclosure or provision of assurance in term of fiscal information that assists
administrator, taxation authorities and others to make decisions about assigning resource.
Job Description for Accountant Job role
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Job brief: The organisation is searching an Accountant who is responsible to manage and
administrate all financial transactions, from fixed payments and variable expenditures to bank
deposits and budgets. The person is accountable to prepare balance sheets and financial
statements or reports. Offers fiscal information to management by investing and monitoring
accounting information and designing reports.
Roles and responsibilities
 The individual is responsible to manage all accounting transactions and designing
budget forecasts.
 Responsible to handle monthly, quarterly and yearly closings.
 Maintain accounting controls by designing and recommending process and policies.
 Accountable to provide information about the organisation's financial situation, health
and liquidity (El Desoki, 2019).
Requirements
 Bachelor's in business administration with specialisation in finance and related field.
 Experience in general leader functions and month-end or annually close process.
 Effective information about use of accounting software.
 Effective management and quantitative skills.
Skills and proficiencies
 Reporting and time management skills.
 Accounting, corporate finance and data entry management.
Person specification and How you are qualify for job
A person specification is link with those component which encompasses a description
and detailed information of an individual qualification, skills,, experience, knowledge and other
attitude in order to place themselves in a right job position. However, this element is derived
from job description and act as the foundation for recruitment process in an efficient or improved
manner. Hence, the person specification for chosen ideal job role i.e. Accountant is mentioned
below:
Category Essential Desirable
Attributes  Effective
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communication skills
 Team player
 Highly motivated and
dedicated.
 Broad knowledge
about business and
market trends.
Education  Professionally qualified
accountant (ACA,
ACCA, CIMA)
 Completed I year
certification course
related to accountancy
or business studies.
 Contains around 1 year
of experience in
commercial field
(Frankovský,
Birknerová and
Zbihlejová, 2018).
Knowledge and experience  Experience of handling
operational activities
from medium to large
organisation.
 Experience in
preparing management
and company accounts
that involves profit and
loss, cash flow, balance
sheet, reconciliation.
 Knowledge of
Microsoft products
specially in Excel
spread sheet.
 Experience of fully IT
integrated system.
Skills  Generate and build
positive working
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relationship within
company premises.
 Capable to manage
high turnover firms as
well as contain strong
awareness regarding
commercial trends or
demands.
Personal Qualities  Ability to determine
and analyse all
available opportunities
for the enhancement of
finance function.
 Perform with degree of
integrity and loyalty
while maintaining
representing the
Company's values or
objectives.
However, on the basis of above described person specification, I can assure that hiring
me within your business premises will benefit you in aspect of gaining competitive advantage
and also to improve the brand reputation among competitors in an amended manner (Gu and
et.al., 2019).
Different resources for job finding process
As the current marketplace has been enhanced and improved in terms of technological
factor that means it allow an organisation to post their vacant job requirements in different social
media platforms and job portals. Due to which, it help wider range of population to access to
various kinds of professions in an innovative and creative style. However, as per this report, the
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resources which helped student to gather the information regrading the job role of accountant are
explained below:
Linkedln: This innovative resource is an American business and employment based
services which can operate through websites as well as via mobile apps. This platform is mainly
used to advertise various professional networking, employers positing job, uploading CV and so
on. Hence, by using this application, it assist pupil to make connection with experted recruiters
and HR across the globe and also help to improve own potentiality or skills by achieving
suggestion from different recruiters regarding specified job role.
Facebook: This is one of the most familiar social media platform as it enable people to
connect with friends, family and also to discover new communities as well as helps in enlarging
business. The primal benefit which student obtained from Facebook is that it aid them to
accomplish various views and opinion from friends, business professionals, other colleagues
regrading the scope in Accountant field. Moreover, it also help to make best decisions regarding
selection of suitable area (McFarland, 2019).
Indeed: The major benefit that pupil acquired from indeed is that it doest not charge any
kind of amount for positing the CV as well as it asked all detailed data regarding skill, interest,
qualification, competent area and so on. With the help of this, it empowered students to finalise
the decision of choosing accountant as a ideal job role.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above discussed report that an proper utilisation of
available resources helps an individual to make best decisions regarding career development and
also drive to acquire competent success within competitive marketplace.
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