International Journal of Research and Review Vol.7; Issue: 6; June 2020 Website: www.ijrrjournal.com Research Paper E-ISSN: 2349-9788; P-ISSN: 2454-2237 International Journal of Research and Review (ijrrjournal.com) 298 Vol.7; Issue: 6; June 2020 The Effect of Job Description and Job Stress on Performance of Employees with Employment Satisfaction as Intervening Variables in PT Bess Finance Medan Elfira Ilany 1 , Prihatin Lumbanraja 2 , Muhammad Zarlis 2 1 Postgraduate Students, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business at Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia 2 Postgraduate Lecturer, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business at Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia Corresponding Author: Elfira Ilany ABSTRACT PT. Bess Finance is a limited liability company engaged in consumer financing which already has many branch offices in various cities in Indonesia and has many employees, one of which is PT Bess Finance branch Kapten Muslim Medan along with its development there is a decrease in performance of employees caused by lack of satisfaction employee's work is due to unclear job description and pressures from leaders that make employees often experience job stress. The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze the effect of job description and job stress on performance of employees with employment satisfaction as intervening variable. This type of research is quantitative associative. The population of this study were 42 employees and the sample collection used a census sample, that is, all the population were 42 employees. Data analysis uses path analysis. Research results show that job description and job stress have a significant effect on performance of employees and employment satisfaction can be a variable that mediates the relationship between job description and job stress on performance of employees in PT Bess Finance Medan. Keywords: Job Description, Job Stress, Performance of Employees, Employment Satisfaction INTRODUCTION In today's business world, it is required to create high employee performance for company development. The company must be able to build and improve performance within its environment, given the increasing competition, technological changes, globalization and other factors quickly. The success of the company is influenced by several factors, one of the important factors is human resources. Sunyoto (2015) suggests that human resources are one of the most important factors in an organization or company, in addition to other factors such as assets and capital. The potential of any human resources that exist in the company must be able to be utilized properly so as to provide optimum output. The success of an organization is heavily influenced by the individual performance of its employees. Every organization or company will always strive to improve employee performance, with the expectation of what the company's goals will be achieved. Performance is the output produced by the functions or indicators of a work or a profession in a particular time (Hamali, 2016). Performance is the result of work that has a strong relationship with the strategic objectives of the Organization, customer satisfaction and contributing to the