SENIOR STATE ACCOUNTANT GRANT MANAGEMENT
Port Elizabeth,
South Africa
Port Elizabeth,
South Africa
Reference Number
Department
Salary Package
RESPONSIBILITIES
Main Responsibilities
- Provide administrative support in the management of the Provincial Housing Funds (Conditional Grant).
- Verify budget loaded on BAS against the approved conditional grant business plan.
- Receive payments and confirm funds available for project payments on confirmation schedule and on payments.
- Identify non-moving projects and guide programmes on shifting of funds.
- Draw BAS report, identify misallocations and reconcile to expenditure commitment sheet.
- Give instructions to subordinates on journals to be compiled and captured on BAS.
- Authorise journals on BAS.
- Distribute monthly reports to programmes to enable reporting.
- Populate the DORA reporting template with conditional grant expenditure from BAS on a monthly/quarterly basis.
- Finalise the DORA report in terms of the DORA framework and submit with all the supporting reporting to Provincial Treasury and National within prescribed dates.
- Prepare reports for interim financial statements (IFS) and Annual Financial Statements (AFS).
- Coordinate housing project payments and related transactions.
- Verify payments for full compliance with PFMA requirements, Treasury Regulations and Housing Policy.
- Verify data captured on BAS against the supporting documentation on the claims and on BAS.
- Authorise all payments on BAS.
- Verify if the checklist is attached to all claims and signed off before filing process is initiated.
- Follow up on ageing or problematic claims.
- Provide information upon request to Internal/External Auditors and other stakeholders.
- Provide admin support in the monitoring and reporting on Trust Accounts.
- Reconcile and verify bank statements and reconciliation statements received from account administrators.
- Write letters to entities to follow up on outstanding recons/bank statement/interest and other anomalies identified.
- File all correspondence per entity.
- Receive and record all interest received.
- Record all Trust Account balances on reporting tool.
- Manage the allocated resources.
- Timeously develop an employee job description.
- Manage the performance of the employee.
- Manage sound employment relations.
- Manage employee conditions of service.
- Facilitate coaching, mentorship, training and development of employees.
- Manage assets of the unit.
- Financial management.
- Attend to Internal Audit and AGs RFIs, outcomes and findings.
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REQUIREMENTS
Minimum Qualifications & Skills
- National Senior Certificate.
- National Diploma (NQF level 6) in Internal Auditing/Accounting/Financial Management/Commerce or equivalent qualification as recognised by SAQA with 2 years’ experience as a State Accountant.
- Knowledge of human settlements policies and procedures, Information Management, Government policies and prescripts, Public Service Regularity Framework, Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) and DORA (Division of Revenue Act).
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