Becoming a Cost Clerk in Queensland

About this role

Cost Clerks calculate and investigate the cost of wages, materials, overheads and other operating expenses.

What you might do day-to-day in this job

Typical tasks for a Cost Clerk include:

• calculates, analyses and investigates the costs of proposed expenditure, wages and standard costs
• prepares bank reconciliations
• allocates expenditure to specified budget accounts
• summarises expenditure and receipts
• prepares records of standard costs and values for items such as raw materials and packaging supplies
• records cost variations and contract price movements
• compiles cost data for preparation of operating budgets, and profit and loss calculations
• investigates the costs of proposed expenditures, quotations and estimates
• prepares reports of total costs, inventory adjustments and selling prices and profits.