- Johannesburg
- Salary: Market Related
- Job Type: Permanent
- Sectors: Government & Parastatals Human Resources Environmental
- Reference: 2138611
- Employment Equity Position
Vacancy Details
Employer: Heitha Staffing Group
Purpose
The purpose of this role is to perform various operational finance functions, aiding sound business operations.
Main Duties
1. Financial Control
- Manage the updating and monitoring of adherence to financial policies and procedures, in line with the PFMA, other legislative prescripts and Board directives.
- Contribute to and implement the financial strategy.
- Monitor, review and evaluate internal control systems.
- Prepare for and participate in the external audit by the Auditor General.
- Prepare for and participate in relevant internal audits conducted by entity’s Internal Auditors.
2. Financial Reporting
- Prepare monthly Management Accounts with variances explanation.
- Prepare all legislative reporting to the Department of Higher Education and Innovation and National Treasury as per their reporting timelines.
- Prepare annual budgets and monitor monthly the actual spend against budget.
- Review month-end financial closes, reconciliations, and related analysis of all accounts.
- Verify the submission and monthly reconciliation of any statutory returns.
- Prepare any financial reports and statements for financial analysis, forecasting, trending, and results analysis, including supporting schedules
- Analyse monthly and quarterly expenditure reports for all cost centres and submit information to the Reporting, Risk and Compliance Manager.
- Contribute to the preparation of the annual financial statements, including notes and supporting Schedules.
3. Expenditure Management
- Approve supplier and creditor payments.
- Approve procurement of goods & services.
- Manage the recovery of credit notes, disallowances and subsistence and transport allowances.
- Manage the allocation, reconciliation, and banking of revenue.
- Manage all expenditure related queries, identify irregular expenditure, identify fruitless and wasteful expenditure, and provide the information to the relevant managers.
4. Financial Accounting
- Resolve accounting discrepancies and irregularities.
- Approve all relevant journal entries when required.
- Analyse the monthly financial reports, monitor trends and drive appropriate action.
- Manage creditors and oversee the monthly reconciliation. Authorise adjustments and access to financial databases (e.g. for new clients, and creditors).
5. Payroll
- Draft and implement payroll administration and control policies.
- Drive adherence to payroll procedures.
- Coordinate and manage the entire payroll function to ensure processing deadlines and control requirements are being met.
- Manage calculation of and authorise payment of termination payments. (resignation/retirement/redundancy).
- Manage the calculation, payment, and reconciliation of payroll tax.
- Manage and authorise the administration, calculation, payment and reconciliation of all superannuation contributions and third-party payments.
- Liaise with management and staff regarding all escalated pay enquiries.
- Ensure submission of all statutory payments and returns by deadline dates.
- Manage the preparation and reconciliation of payment summaries.
- Establish and manage the payroll records management system, including archiving and filing. Coordinate workers compensation payments.
- Establish a system for checking and auditing all payrolls to assure compliance with policy and legislation.
Required Skills
- Financial Accounting: 5 to 6 years
- Financial Control: 5 to 6 years
- Payroll Management: 5 to 6 years
- Financial Reporting And Analysis: 5 to 6 years
- Expenditure Management: 5 to 6 years
Candidate Requirements
Minimum Requirements
- BCom Honours or equivalent qualification in Accounting or Finance.
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in a Senior Management Accountant role.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in the public sector.
- Membership with a relevant professional body will be advantageous.
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