State Accountant: General Payments
DEPARTMENT OF SPORT, RECREATION, ARTS AND CULTURE
Overview
Render financial administration. Process and verify general payment transactions accurately and within prescribed timeframes.
Requirements
- National Senior Certificate plus a National Diploma (NQF Level 6) or B
- Degree (NQF level 7 as recognised by SAQA) in Financial Accounting/ Cost and Management Accounting/ Financial Management/ Internal Audit qualification with at least 1 to 2 years’ exper ience within the public sector expenditure management field
- Knowledge of financial systems (LOGIS and BAS)
- Knowledge of Public Service Regulations, Legislations/ policies/ prescripts, and procedures
- Knowledge of Treasury Regulations, understanding of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA)
- Financial Regulations Knowledge of Batho Pele principles
- Computer literacy (specializing in Advanced EXCEL and PowerPoint Presentation)
- Good communication and Report writing skills
- Sound organisational skills
- People management
- Customer / client orientated approach and ability to work under pressure and independently
- A valid driving licence (Code 8) is required
Responsibilities
- Render financial administration
- Process and verify general payment transactions accurately and within prescribed timeframes
- Ensure all payment requests are supported by valid documentation and approved in accordance with delegated authority
- Capture, rev iew, and authorize payment transactions on the applicable financial management systems
- Monitor payment batches to ensure timely settlement of supplier invoices and other financial obligations
- Render authorization of electronic transactions for transfers and creditors payments
- Verification of captured payment details
- Render quality assurance of payments
- Facilitate and solve payments queries on time
- Facilitate payment of supplier bank rejections
- Monitor adherence to internal controls
- Authorization of all creditor’s payments manually
- Ensure compliance with payment documents
- Manual authorization and monitor of transfers
- Facilitate the authenticity for transfer payments to Public Entities and institutions
- Authorization of all transfer payments manuall y
- Facilitate confirmation for receipt of fund transferred by different Institutions and Public Entities
- Compile register of transfers monthly and quarterly submit for disclosure in the Interim/ Annual financial statements
- Facilitate reconciliation of tr ansfers to budget for In Year Monitoring
- Ensure that we disclose correct information on transfers for quarterly Interim Financial Statement and Annual Financial Statement
- Compilation of accruals and payables reports
- Request reports from system controller
- Facilitate compilation of accruals and payables reports
- Verification of payments age analysis of the Accruals and payables
- Verification, analysing and reconciliation of accruals and payables
- Consolidation of accruals and payables monthly
- Presentation of accruals and payables reports in the In- Year-Monitoring meetings
- Ensure that accurate information is disclosed on accruals and payables for quart erly Interim Financial Statement and Annual Financial Statements
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