Accountant Billing at Lekwa Local Municipality

• Salary: R537 207,47 per annum Task Grade 13

Minimum Requirements

• Grade 12.
• A relevant 3-year tertiary qualification, preferably a National Diploma/B Com with Financial accounting as a major subject. Certificate in Municipal Finance Management Programme (SAQA Qualification ID No.48965) will be added advantage
• 3-5 years relevant experience in municipal billing, revenue management, or financial administration
• Experience in the administration of municipal billing systems (gg Munsoft)
• Knowledge and understanding of accounting standards as well as management accounting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advance computer software (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Key Performance Areas

• Assessing and establishing capabilities of personnel and providing guidance with specific Billing applications.
• Verify, authorise and approve the actions of the Billing Section
• Monitoring outcomes and implements corrective measures to address deviations.
• Supervision of the staff in the unit
• Draft, implement and maintain approved municipal tariffs
• Conducting tariff research and propose policy amendment
• Drafting comparison report for tariffs
• Compilation of monthly reports and reconciliations
• Submitting a meter defective and monthly report to technical departments
• Liaising with meter reading officials on problems experience for rechecks and final readings on conventional meters
• Analysing billing and make any changes that needs to be made on the system
• Executing adjustment sequences to authorised limits and/or referring incorrect transactional processing sequences to personnel for rectification
• Perform Billing month end procedures as per the required guidelines and timeframes
• Check input documents for new accounts in ensure correct tariffs are applied for these new accounts as prepared by the Clark Meter Management and captured by data typists
• Administer the billing of property rates and municipal services.
• Perform account reconciliations and billing corrections.
• Process billing adjustments and journals.
• Ensure the monthly accuracy of consumer account billing (Data cleansing).
• Assessing and establishing capabilities of personnel and providing guidance with specific Billing applications.
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation and municipal policies.

Inherent requirements

• Sound and professional interpersonal skills
• Ability to give attention to detail Supervision Skills
• Problem Solving Skills Ability to handle pressure and meet deadlines
• Strong sense of responsibility
• Decision making skills

Closing Date: 2026-08-17