Use this step by step explanation to craft a good employee performance feedback review for a staff accountant. Find the right words with quality phrases.
Staff Accountant provides the administration with financial information through researching and analyzing accounts and preparing accurate financial statements. They work under the supervision of a controller, a director or a certified public accountant.
Their responsibilities come in a wide range and includes, preparing combined external and internal financial statements and analyzing information from the ledger system, and other departments makes accounting entries while sustaining records and files, reconciling accounts, preparing payments by increasing expenses and assigning account numbers and reconciling accounts, promoting and implementing accounting procedures by analyzing current procedures, maintaining and balancing automated systems by inputting the right data.
Employee Performance Review Sample | |
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| Employee's Name: | Title: |
| Review Period: __/__/__ to __/__/__ | Employee SSN: |
| Work Location: | Supervisor's Name: |
Instructions |
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Rating Meaning | |
| The employee fails to perform the most important aspects of the job satisfactorily. Requires close guidance to carry out routine jobs. He/she needs significant improvement in all areas. Meetings should be held between the employee and the supervisor to discuss performance deficiencies. | 1 |
| Employee routinely meets and exceeds expectations in all areas of responsibility. Produces high-quality work that at times exceeds expectations. Consistently meets the most critical annual goals. Occasionally produces timely and accurate results. | 2 |
| The employee consistently and significantly exceeds the communicated expectations by producing exceptionally high-quality work. He/she demonstrates exceptional knowledge of his/her duties and is highly recognized by others as an authority in his/her area of work. | 3 |
Supervisor's Feedback | ||
Skill | Comments | Rating |
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| PRESENTATION SKILLS: Presentation Skills are useful in getting your message or opinion out there in many aspects of life and work, though they are mostly used in businesses, sales, teaching, lecturing, and training. | Speaks in a good speech rate not so fast and at the same time not too slow. Makes good eye contact with the audience from the start of the presentation to the end. | 2 |
| INNOVATION: Innovation is the process of translating new invention into a service that creates value or brings better solutions that meet the requirements. | Always willing to take risks to achieve great innovative results. Builds and maintains beneficial relationships, which helps achieve great results. | 2 |
| MULTI-TASKING: Multi-Tasking allows one to juggle and perform more than one task at a time without losing track of what you are working on or dropping the ball. | Keeps a selection of simpler projects or smaller tasks and performs them while waiting for inspiration or information on a larger project Chooses compatible tasks such as reading a book and clearing your desk and does them together | 2 |
| GIVING FEEDBACK: Giving Feedback is one of the most powerful tools to develop employees and improve performance through honest feedback of the work done best and areas that need improvement. | Provides feedback as soon as possible after a behavior has been observed in order to make it more pertinent and relevant Listens to how the person interpreted the situation and their suggestions and asks how one can help to prevent the situation from recurring | 3 |
| APPRAISAL AND EVALUATION SKILLS: Appraisal and Evaluation Skills are services that allow employers to assess their employees? contributions to the organization for the period they have been working with them. | Highly disciplined and punctual in all aspects displaying character that others should follow Always an excellent team player who cooperates and listens to others | 3 |
| FLEXIBILITY: Flexibility is an important skill that allows employers and employees to make an arrangement about working on maintaining a work/life balance to help organizations improve the productivity and efficiency of their balance. | Consistently maintains composure during times of stress and helps others do the same Persuades others to keep calm in time of storms and focus on the primary goals | 2 |
| PERSONAL GROWTH: Personal Growth is the improvement of one's awareness, identity, developing talents and potential to facilitate the growth of oneself and the position they handle at the workplace. | Ability to lead others in setting personal goals that all result in accomplishing the company goals Welcomes coaching and training that brings out more hidden ability | 2 |
| FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS: Following Directions is the skill of carefully considering the given instructions and following them closely without fail. | Keeps copies of detailed and complicated directions on files for projects and tasks that are done infrequently, for future reference Does what one is asked to do in the workplace as long as it is moral, reasonable and harmless | 2 |
| PROBLEM/SITUATION ANALYSIS: Problem/Situation Analysis is the ability to solve problems and assess situations to know what kind of solution is required to calm it down. | Uses more positive or neutral words to describe the situation and avoids words that may make one feel frustrated about the situation Takes full responsibility for mistakes made from solutions that one has implemented and refrains from blaming other people | 2 |
| KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: Knowledge Management is the ability to manage knowledge and information that is presented to the company from different sources without overlooking any of them. | Encourages colleagues to comply with standards of managing knowledge and shows willingness to learn more about the relevant standards Seeks for networking opportunities and encourages others to do the same in order to learn more from others | 2 |
Self Evaluation | |
Self Evaluation Question | Employee Comments |
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| PRESENTATION SKILLS: How do you normally conclude your presentations and how can you rate it? When it comes to nervousness, how do you manage or deal with it before hand? | [employee comments] |
| INNOVATION: Give an instance you thought critically and came up with workable solutions? What can you say is your best innovation when it comes to developing workable solutions? | [employee comments] |
| MULTI-TASKING: Describe a situation that required you to do a number of things at the same time. How did you handle it? What tips have you used to differentiate tasks that fit well in multi-tasking from those that require your undivided attention? | [employee comments] |
| GIVING FEEDBACK: Describe a time when you have had to deal with an employee who was not happy about the feedback you had given. How did you handle the situation? What techniques have you used to track an employee's performance in order to give the best feedback? | [employee comments] |
| APPRAISAL AND EVALUATION SKILLS: Do you find fault with some of the employees you assess? Do you work with the employees after the assessment to see better results? | [employee comments] |
| FLEXIBILITY: Are you adaptable to a new working environment with new people? Are you able to handle more than one task within a given period? | [employee comments] |
| PERSONAL GROWTH: Do you make an immediate corrective action based on the coaching or feedback you receive? Do you find it hard to work with the management in certain areas? | [employee comments] |
| FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS: How do you react to a colleague who regularly fails to follow instructions? Is there a time when you have had to speak up in order to be sure that the instructor knew what you thought or felt about the instructions? | [employee comments] |
| PROBLEM/SITUATION ANALYSIS: Describe a time when you solved a problem without all the necessary information about it in hand. How did you go about it and what was the outcome? Describe a time when you have found a creative way to solve a problem. How did you feel? | [employee comments] |
| KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: What are you doing to improve your understanding on when to seek for new knowledge? How often do you encourage others to participate in networking opportunities that can assist in gaining more knowledge? | [employee comments] |
Summary |
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Sections 1-4: To be completed by the supervisor Section 5: To be completed by the employee |
1. Exceeds Job Related Expectations |
2. Areas to improve |
3. Goals completed since last performance feedback |
4. Goals for next period |
5. Employee comments |
Signatures | |
| I acknowledge that I discussed this performance feedback with my supervisor. My signature does not mean that I agree or disagree with this appraisal. | |
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| Supervisor: | Date: |
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