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State Accountant, ECD Expenditure Management (EDU)
1 Permanent position(s) exists
Key Performance Areas
- Process financial transactions in accordance with ECD applicable legislation and policies.
- Ensure proper allocation and recording of expenditure and revenue.
- Monitor financial activities to ensure compliance with approved budgets.
- Assist with the preparation of annual and medium-term budgets. Monitor expenditure against budget allocations.
- Analyse variances and provide recommendations to management.
- Expenditure management: Budget reporting, expenditure projections and reports.
- Verify and process payments to ECD Centres.
- Ensure that expenditure is authorised and supported by relevant documentation.
- Monitor commitments and prevent unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports.
- Compile management reports for decision-making purposes.
- Assist in the preparation of Annual Financial Statements (AFS).
- Provide financial information required by Auditors.
- Reconciliation of payment made to ECD Centres.
- Ensuring payments to all funded ECD centres on time.
- Execute all queries emanating from suppliers promptly and compile a prompt response to all audit queries relating to accounts payable.
- Reporting and rectifying any deviation found i.r.o contract/instruction and delegations prior to approval of payments.
- Follow up on all payment’s documents received late for payments and make sure that appropriate preventative action taken in respect thereof.
- Preparation of journals and reconciliation of all ECD centres paid quarterly. Knowledge in respect of foreign payments.
- Reporting all financial misconduct as required by the prescripts. Keeping the relevant statistics for management purposes.
- Ensure the safe keeping of all transactions supporting documentation, files and data for audit purposes in accordance with prescripts. centres.
- Consolidate weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports. Attend National, Provincial and District meetings.
Prerequisites
- NQF Level 6 qualification as recognised by SAQA.
- A qualification in Finance/Accounting will be an added advantage.
- Minimum of 01 - 02 years’ relevant experience in Early Childhood Development or related field.
- Valid driver’s license (with exception of people with disabilities license
Person Profile
Sound knowledge of the Public Finance Management Act and Treasury Regulations. Ability to understand, interpret and correctly apply financial policies and prescripts. Understanding of the financial and accounting processes. Well-developed reasoning, mathematical, analytical, innovative thinking and problem-solving ability. Ability to effectively compile and present reports. Well-developed verbal, written communication skills with good inter-personal relations. Ability to effectively lease and communicate with clients.
Contact Person
Name
tshifhiwa
Surname
eric
Contact Number
0678737345