Senior State Accountant: Revenue, Debt & Bank Reconciliation

DUTIES: KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS: - Provide support in administration of departmental revenue. Prepare payment vouchers. Transfer Revenue collected to Provincial Revenue Fund. Compile monthly and quarterly reports. Compile proposal revenue tariffs revision. Compile and revise revenue budget estimate as well as MTEF. Capture original and revise revenue budget estimates into BAS. Compile and revise monthly revenue projections. Ensure that bank exceptions are cleared. Implement applicable policies and procedures. Provide support in clearing suspense account. Compile and capture BAS journals. Analysis of daily bank statements. Reconcile the bank account. Reconcile and clear suspense accounts. Analysis of trial balance on a daily basis. Prepare monthly and quarterly suspense control account reports. Perform monthly and year and closures. Communicate with bankers, other departments, and directorate on provision of information. Prepare monthly compliance certificate. Retrieve and submit information requested by Auditor General. Balance general ledger by preparing a trial balance, reconciling entries. Prepare financial reports by collecting, analysing and summarising account information. Conduct periodic reconciliations of all accounts to ensure their accuracy. Provide support in collection of debts. Monitor the capturing of debts. Maintain debt register. Authorise the process of creating entities. Submit debt age analysis, monthly and quarterly reports. Submit quarterly monitoring tool. Monitor irrecoverable debts. Ensure the allocation of direct deposits, pensions and PERSAL deductions to the respective debts. Monitor the reconciliation of debts on PERSAL and BAS. Compile / complete journal on the prescribed journal form. Ensure filling and safekeeping of reports. Provide support in compilation of interim and annual financial statements. Download the template. Run all the macro updates as they are made available. Request information for notes from different directorate. Calculate other amounts for disclosures. Request current year trial balance to upload on the template. Download the trial balance into excel. Run macro for the previous year trial balance into the financials template. Map all the trial balance items as per SCOA into financials template. Record all the necessary secondary information into the notes. Correct all exceptions. Ensuring that all balances recorded are correct. Provide all relevant narrations to the notes. Prepare audit file.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS: - Knowledge of variety of work ranges and procedure such as PFMA. SCOA. Government Financial Systems. Economic reporting. Transversal Revenue Policy. Managerial functions. Finance. Human Resource matters; Planning and organizing. Compilation of reports. Technical / standards. Ability to interpret policy. Financial Management. Analytic and innovative thinking. Report writing. Ability to operate Computer. Leadership. Conflict Management.

NQF level 6 qualification in Financial Accounting / Management Accounting / Cost and Management Accounting / Financial Information Systems as recognized by SAQA. 2 years functional experience in Financial Management.