Pharmacy Cashier

Duties and Responsibilities

• Count and effects collections of the drugs dispensary or other transactions of the outlet, gives changes to clients as required, and issues receipts;
• Draws cash from bank against written orders and deposits collections and unclaimed salaries in bank timely;
• Pays out cash against written orders and obtains receipts;
• Keeps records of amount received and paid and reconciles cash balance with records;
• encode the transactions data of the outlet in a cash register machine in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements;
• Checks cash balance against transactions at end of day;
• Keeps banknotes and denominations (changes)or other negotiable instructions sorted to avoid possible errors and facilitate disbursements;
• Counts and records cash at the beginning and end of each cash period of duty and prepares reconciliations statement;
• Verifies cash held against records:
• Effects authorized payments to a requesting party after thoroughly checking for fulfilments of approval procedures by authorized officials of the program and the Society as the case may be;
• Takes utmost care of cash custody and makes proper use of such working equipment as adding machines, cash registers and keeps cash collections and disbursements registered and updates records;
• Pays salaries, per dimes and advance to employees of the outlet based on the approved payment documents and other pertinent supporting documents or facilitates;
• Cross-reference bank deposit slip or checks deposits to cash receipts/cash sales invoice to which they relate;
• Sorts out and arranges receipts and payments related documents and distributes the right number of copies to complete internal control procedures;
• Checks the correctness of daily cash collection, deposit report and attached receipts;
• Keeps the petty cash of the outlet; summarizes all the petty cash payments and replenishes same as required;
• Stamp payment documents as appropriates;
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities of the job as assigned by the Pharmacy Head;

Work Unit:2 Pharmacy

Report to: Pharmacy Head

Qualification

• First degree /Collage Diploma or TVET Level IV/III certificate in accounting and 2/4 years relevant Experience.