How do they match: Brokerage Clerks

  • Perform duties related to the purchase, sale, or holding of securities. Duties include writing orders for stock purchases or sales, computing transfer taxes, verifying stock transactions, accepting and delivering securities, tracking stock price fluctuations, computing equity, distributing dividends, and keeping records of daily transactions and holdings.

  • Compute total holdings, dividends, interest, transfer taxes, brokerage fees, or commissions and allocate appropriate payments to customers.
  • Correspond with customers and confer with coworkers to answer inquiries, discuss market fluctuations, or resolve account problems.
  • Prepare reports summarizing daily transactions and earnings for individual customer accounts.
  • Schedule and coordinate transfer and delivery of security certificates between companies, departments, and customers.

  • Respond to customer problems or complaints.