office assistant

Education:

Secondary (high) school graduation certificate. or equivalent experience.

Work setting:

• Office.
• Retail/wholesale establishment/distribution centre.

Tasks:

• Type and proofread correspondence, forms and other documents.
• Receive and forward telephone or electronic enquiries.
• Work on reports from manual or electronic files, inventories and databases.
• Sort, process and verify applications, receipts and other documents.
• Process incoming and outgoing mail manually or electronically.
• Send and receive messages.
• Perform basic bookkeeping tasks.
• Prepare and format page presentation.
• Compile data, statistics and other information.
• Prepare invoices and bank deposits.
• Provide general information to clients and the public.
• Photocopy and collate documents for distribution, mailing and filing.
• Order office supplies and maintain inventory.
• Conduct research.
• Perform data entry.
• Provide customer service.
• File material in storage area.
• Label files according to retention and disposal schedules.
• Label, file and retrieve documents.
• Locate and remove files requested.
• Organize and schedule office work.
• Store, update and retrieve financial data.

Computer and technology knowledge:

• MS Word.
• Quick Books.
• MS Excel.
• MS Outlook.
• MS Windows.

Screening questions:

• Are you available for shift or on-call work?.
• Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
• Do you have experience working in this field?.

Experience:

Experience an asset.