Pretoria - Gauteng
Deputy Director - Corporate Finance - Pretoria
12 Month fixed term contract
R70 808.50pm
(Ref: DD/CF/2024/07-1T)
The purpose of the role: is to manage the finance administration (i.e payroll, accounts payable, asset, management and reporting) of GPAA.
Key Performance Areas
The incumbent will be responsible for a wide variety of tasks which includes but are not limited to the following:
- Manage the authorization of payments on PERSAL.
- Oversee and attend to approvals, adjustments and recalculations of payments
- Liaise and interact with internal and external stakeholders relevant to the unit
- Ensure employees tax compliance of the organization
- Review and authorize all payroll related expenditures journals
- Manage debtors book (i.e. recording, collections of debt and reporting)
- Year-end and interim reporting on payroll management
- Review and authorize PERSAL and Accpac reconciliations
- Effective management of fixed assets:
- Review and authorize assets additions journals
- Review and authorize assets disposals journals
- Review monthly fixed assets reconciliations
- Liaise and interact with internal and external stakeholders relevant to the unit
- Oversee assets depreciation and impairment/valuation processes
- Review assets useful lives annually
- Year end and interim reporting on asset management
- Oversee assets verification process
- Manage the compilation and maintenance of fixed assets register
- Effective management of accounts payable:
- Manage the authorization processes of invoices by cost centres
- Liaise and interact with internal and external stakeholders relevant to the unit
- Oversee capturing of invoices and payment processes
- Ensure quarterly reporting to M&E on 30 days compliance as per Treasury regulations
- Review and authorize suppliers reconciliations
- Authorize payment runs
- Year end and interim reporting on accounts payable
- Financial controls and reporting:
- Develop templates for financial reporting and implement good systems of internal control for financial reporting
- Monitor, review and improve these templates and controls for effectiveness
- Review the monthly reports on admin expense accounting for correctness and fair presentation as required by stakeholders
- Prepare interim and annual financial statements of GPAA
- Liaise and interact with internal and external stakeholders relevant to the unit
- Review and authorize all accounting journals
- Review monthly reconciliations
- Manage the implementation and maintenance of the finance administration guidelines and policies:
- Ensure all legislations and regulations and policies are complied with
- Undertake research on latest trends on finance administration
- Support the development and ensure the implementation of finance administration policies
- Ensure that policies are in line with Departments strategic objectives and Treasury Regulations
- Oversee continued adherence thereto
- Undertake corrective measures on deviation
- Undertake and facilitate training to relevant stakeholders on related policies
- Manage all resources of the unit:
- Set, agree and monitor performance of direct reports, check that it is aligned with planned targets.
- Manage the audit process (i.e submission of information and reports)
- Develop the APP targets of the unit
- Manage the budget of the unit and monitor expenditure patterns as per the prescripts
- Allocate work according to the individual workload, expertise and developmental needs of the individual.
- Identify development and succession planning requirements
- Ensure employment equity compliance
- Monitor that outputs achieve business requirements
- Facilitate staff productivity and efficiency, minimizing absenteeism and turnover figures
- Motivate staff through the implementation of various reward mechanisms
- Facilitate departmental communication through appropriate structures and systems
- Manage the budget of the unit and monitor expenditure patterns as per prescripts
- Knowledge of Financial management
- Knowledge of Employee benefits
- Knowledge of GEPF services and products
- Knowledge of GPAA policies and procedures
- Knowledge of relevant legal requirements
- Knowledge of Public Service Act
- Knowledge of PFMA
- Strategic planning
- Analytical skills
- Strong leadership and managerial skills
- Planning and organizing skills
- Decision making and Problem-solving skills
- Effective communication skills (both verbal and written)
- Motivating skills
- Ability to establish controls to monitor tasks
- Persuasiveness and flexibility
- Customer service orientation
- Ability to take responsibility
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to delegate
- Integrity, reliability and honesty
- Quality and results orientated
- Good governance
- Recognized three-year bachelors degree / B Tech within the Accounting and financial field (at least 360 credits, minimum NQF 6)
- Coupled with six (6) years financial / management accounting experience which include at least three (3) years managerial experience
- Computer literacy that includes a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office products, especially Microsoft Excel and Word (especially Excel spreadsheets / accounting systems)
- PERSAL / ACCPAC / BAS training will be an advantage.
No late applications will be accepted
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