Depending on their specific titles, these workers perform a wide variety of recordkeeping duties. Billing clerks and billing machine operators , for example, prepare bills and invoices. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks maintain financial data in computer and paper files. B rokerage clerks prepare and maintain the records generated when stocks, bonds, and other types of investments are traded. File clerks store and retrieve various kinds of office information for use by staff members.
Human resources clerks maintain employee records.
Library assistants and bookmobile drivers assist library patrons. Order clerks process incoming orders for goods and services. Payroll and timekeeping clerks compute wages for payroll records and review employee timecards. Statement clerks prepare monthly statements for bank customers. The duties of records processing clerks vary with the size of the firm.