How to become an audit clerk

Official title: Audit clerk

Also called: Audit assistant, Reconciliation clerk, Ÿ Audit assistant, Ÿ Reconciliation clerk

Audit clerk checks and verifies figures, calculations and postings pertaining to various transactions that have been recorded and submitted for checking. He/she inspects items in books of original entry, such as cash book or journal to ensure proper recording of transactions, counts cash on hand, checks amount of bank balance and verifies journal and ledger entries against receipts for cash payments.

Main tasks

• Checking figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy, and proper codes
• Operating computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyse information
• Classifying, recording, and summarising numerical and financial data to compile and keep financial records, using journals and ledgers or computers
• Compiling statistical, financial, accounting or auditing reports and tables pertaining to such matters as cash receipts, expenditures, accounts payable and receivable, and profits and losses

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Median pay: $46,500 a year. The middle half earn $42,300 to $53,316 a year.
• Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.

Related jobs

• Bookkeeper
• Ledger/Accounts clerk
• Payroll/Wages clerk
• Billing clerk
• Procurement/Purchasing clerk

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Questions people ask

How much does an audit clerk earn in Singapore?

Median full-time pay is $46,500 a year (Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg)). The middle half earn $42,300 to $53,316.

Will AI change the work of an audit clerk?

Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg): Resident Occupational Wages (Occupational Wage Survey) (June 2024 (data.gov.sg update 2026-04-01)), Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026