KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS (What do you have to be able to do to achieve the desired results of your job? Include management and leadership responsibilities for work team leaders.)

Expenditure management and Reconciliations
• Overall management of expenditure, creditors, debtors, cash book and relevant module reconciliations.
• Manage the payments to third parties and employees

Month end management
• Manage the month end closure, i.e. closing of the month end general ledger accounts after ensuring all monthly transactions have been processed.
• Manage month end finance deadlines / timelines.

Cash management
• Effectively manage petty cash and cashbook transactions in order to ensure transactions are accurately recorded and authorised.
• Ensure all monthly petty cash and bank reconciliations are timeously and accurately completed.
• Provide feedback to the CFO regarding cash flow update and cash flow forecast.


Risk management
• Development and maintenance of a system of internal controls to ensure sound financial and risk management within the Financial Management function
• Assist Auditor-General as well as Internal Auditors with audit requests and queries

People Management:
• Provide leadership and guidance to the Financial Management staff
• Manage and oversee subordinates


Client Relationship Management
• Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders in organisation
• Provide advisory service in Financial related matters
EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
• A recognised BCom Hons (Accounting)
• 5 years’ experience in accounting with 3 years managerial experience
• Public sector experience
• Good working understanding of PFMA, Treasury Regulations, GRAP and other public sector legislation
• Thorough understanding of Financial Management and Management Accounting Function
• Strong financial accounting and reporting skills
• Understanding of government policies and regulatory environment
• Understanding of tax and other relevant legislative requirements (BCEA; Contract Laws)
• Knowledge of payroll systems and financial systems
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

SELF LEADERSHIP
• Emotional intelligence: The ability to identify, monitor and manage own emotions intra-personally in developing the self, sustaining healthy engaging interpersonal relationships with others, effective stress management approaches, effective problem solving and adapting to change including maintaining a positive general mood and optimism of the future
• Leadership integrity: The ability to demonstrate leadership that role models the organisational values and work related ethics including prudence (careful and sensible when carrying out organisational tasks), fortitude (effective and confident orientation to work), temperance (slow to anger and calm in the face to adversity), justice (balanced and impartial in decision making), faith (acceptance of authority and a sense of duty), charity (open and honest in dealings with others), and hope (resourceful and enthusiastic about the future)
• Accountability: The ability to demonstrate verifiable organisational commitment that delivers high performance results
• Personal mastery: The ability to demonstrate self-leadership competence through resilience and mastery of intra-personal and inter-personal effectiveness in role taking within and between teams during times of stability and change
• Learning agility: The ability to learn from own experiences including a self-awareness and openness to experience the learning of new skills and knowledge through knowledge management within business units of the organisation and within a learning organisation culture

TEAM LEADERSHIP

• Process conceptual and logical thinking: The ability to seek and assimilate pertinent data, information and intelligence to find emerging patterns and the ability to make connections of the patterns by looking beyond obvious or hidden challenges and root causes in order to solve problems to achieve business process value chain optimisation
• Organising and planning: The ability to optimise business performance with sound business unit knowledge through the provision of effective programme and project management that involves initiation, resource allocation, role clarification, progress monitoring, process management, and the evaluation of potential risks in order to deliver within contracted quality standards and timelines
• Decision making and delegation: The ability to make informed decisions based on analysis and accurate judgement over a period of time, taking into consideration the sharing of responsibility with subordinates through trust and delegation and accountability
• Quality management: The ability to ensure quality management consistency through quality planning, quality control, quality assurance, and quality improvement to ensure consistent quality in all role deliverables
• Leading results driven high performance teams through mentoring and performance coaching: The ability to continuously raise the team’s performance bar through setting high performance objective expectations and monitoring and evaluation through regular focused performance management coaching and mentoring conversations