Billing, Cost, and Rate Clerks

• Prepare itemized statements, bills, or invoices and record amounts due for items purchased or services rendered.
• Verify accuracy of billing data and revise any errors.
• Perform bookkeeping work, including posting data or keeping other records concerning costs of goods or services or the shipment of goods.
• Operate typing, adding, calculating, or billing machines.
• Resolve discrepancies in accounting records.
• Answer mail or telephone inquiries regarding rates, routing, or procedures.
• Review documents such as purchase orders, sales tickets, charge slips, or hospital records to compute fees or charges due.
• Contact customers to obtain or relay account information.
• Type billing documents, shipping labels, credit memorandums, or credit forms, using typewriters or computers.
• Keep records of invoices and support documents.

Source: O*NET OnLine information for Billing, Cost, and Rate Clerks.

• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Mathematics - Using mathematics to solve problems.

Source: O*NET OnLine information for Billing, Cost, and Rate Clerks.