Administrator: Employee Benefits Accounting at The Government Pensions Administration Agency (GPAA)

Qualification/s Requirements

• Grade 12 / Senior certificate with minimum of 1–2 years’ relevant experience. Relevant National Diploma/ Degree (at least 360 credits) in Finance will serve as an added advantage. Computer literacy that includes working knowledge of MS Office products. Knowledge of General ledge bookkeeping. 

Key Performance Areas
The incumbent will be responsible for a wide variety of tasks which includes but are not limited to the following:

Render financial accounting services

• Collect, record and bank collected money at the cashier
• Receive Pay Master General (PMG) statements
• Allocate PMG debits
• Allocate payments on the systems
• Cancellation of returned payments
• Capturing and allocation of receipts
• Ensure that the deduction of Maintenance orders are implemented
• Ensure that the Maintenance payment are done after each payment run
• Provide the court with the Maintenance orders are implemented
• Ensure that follow ups are made for maintenance deducted and not yet paid
• Manually calculate and create payments for interest on late pension
• Create payments requested from other sections
• Create and maintain pay points
• Ensure that bank account details are captured on Portal
• Ensure that recalls forms are completed
• Ensure that feedback is received via status on Safety web
• Process journal entries and corrections on foreign exchange rates, maintenance, post office etc.
• Remove end dates on payment instruction after ensuring that supporting documents required are received
• Create payments and journal related to claims received from Department of Internal Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO)
• Check the departmental debt list with South African Reserve Bank (SARB)
• Accounts and send to National Treasury
• Ensue that payment run list for foreign pensioners is sent to the bank
• Ensure that payment run list for Masters is checked and send
• Ensue that the external fund list is checked and send
• Ensure that the departmental debt list is checked and send
• Authorise telegraphic transfers on safety web
• Correction of payment instruction

Ensure the administration services for Post Office

• Ensures that vouchers for the Foreign post offices are cancelled or crashed
• Perform cancellations of expired vouchers and upaid payments of the SA Post Office
• Ensues that duplicate vouchers are issued when required
• Ensure cancellation of payments for deceased members and
• Attend to queries

Perform administrative duties

• Provide customer services to customers and commercial banks I,e confirmation of payments made to them and
• Ensure all leave forms are received and submitted to HR
• Read in/out files received/send on the system
• Send interest letters to members, beneficiaries and external funds
• Filing of reports and documents such as Payment run reports, Bank serve reports, Reserve bank reports, PMG statements
• Ensure that salary advices are collected and distributed correctly and return signed schedule and uncollected payslip back to Salaries
• Ensure that stationery is ordered and collected
• Handling of general customer enquiries