Minimum Requirements

• Grade 12
• Three (3) year National Diploma in Accounting
• Three (3) to Five (5) years’ relevant experience, preferably in local government
• Ability to work accurately under pressure and meet deadlines
• Sound Administrative, organizational and supervisory skills
• Computer Literacy
• Valid Code B Driver’s License
• The successful applicant / candidate must possess competencies as published in Annexure A of the Local Government: Municipal Staff Regulations promulgated in Government Gazette 45181 of 20 September 2021

Key Performance Areas:

• Providing support with regard to the consolidation and balancing of income transactional information to facilitate the production of financial statements.
• Preparing statistical reports depicting short to medium term cash flow trends inclusive of explanations to support.
• Interacting with the internal /external auditors and make available information, supporting documentation and proof of approvals guiding specific recording, adjustments and allocation of account receivable transactions.
• Co-ordinating the recording and processing procedures of income related transactions.
• Analysing and verifying transactional recording debtor reports and summaries and processing or approving adjustments to entries
• Reconciling debtor accounts and proceeding with the posting and balancing of ledger accounts.
• Generating reminder notifications for circulation to overdue debtors and / or communicating, calculating, and establishing payment terms and conditions with defaulters.
• Generating Debtor age Analysis reports and checking the status of accounts with a view to referring arrear/ overdue accounts for further action
• Preparing and / or approving correspondence and calculations of rates due on properties and building forwarding to legal professionals to facilitate the preparation of specific contractual documentation.
• Attending to queries related to the calculation of penalties /interest on and providing explanations to clients.
• Monitoring files and record keeping systems and implementing changes to facilitate access and retrieval of information
• to support processing adjustments / queries.
• Reporting to the Manager: Financial Services on the adequacy of current recordkeeping systems with a view to improving controls on access, confidentiality and circulation of information.
• Assist in the preparation of Annual Financial Statement