Deputy Director: Governance, Monitoring & Compliance at Limpopo Provincial Treasury

REQUIREMENTS :

• An NQF level 7 qualification as recognized by SAQA. Qualification in Accounting / Internal Auditing.
• Five (5) years’ experience within the field of which three (3) years’ functional experience at junior managerial level / Assistant Director level in Internal Control or related field. Valid vehicle driver’s license (with exception of persons with disabilities). 

DUTIES :

• Manage the implementation of compliance to norms, standards, policies and guideline. Facilitate the research and quality assure the drafted policies and guidelines for the province. Facilitate the process of drafting new policies and guidelines in terms of Section 18 of the PFMA. Identify cutting edge monitoring and evaluation methodologies to ensure effective monitoring of financial management. Draft toolkits and report related to PFMA compliance. Manage compliance with the applicable legislation. Coordinate the process of issuing directives on the management of unwanted expenditure (irregular, fruitless and wasteful and unauthorized expenditures).
• Develop a reporting template, evaluation, advising and ensuring correct disclosure of the unwanted expenditure in the Financial Statement. Review audited AFS to confirm the unwanted expenditure identified by Audit General. Review irregular expenditure applications for condonement by IECC. Do follow ups on unwanted expenditures on quarterly. Draft IECC minutes and resolutions. Draft feedback letters to departments as per IECC recommendations. Facilitate listing/delisting of public entities (including subsidiaries) to National Treasury.
• Facilitate the review of governance compliance (Companies Act and King IV) by [provincial public entities (including subsidiaries). Manage the attendance of audit steering committees’ meetings to provide technical assistant to both office of the auditor general, departments and public entities (including subsidiaries). Assess 30 days payments in line with NT Instruction Note number 34. Provide support to governance and oversight structure. Audit Committees: Conduct the appointment of Provincial Audit Committee by Provincial Executive Committee in terms of section 3.1 and 27.1 of Treasury Regulations. Facilitate logistical arrangements for Audit Committee and Provincial Technical Committee.
• Manage the availability of secretariat functions for governance forums. Receive reports from Provincial Legislature. Analyse the reports. SCOPA: Conduct monthly follow up with departments and public entities on the implementation of Scopa resolutions. Set up the meetings with the various stakeholders. Visits departments and public entities monthly to ensure the implementation of the resolutions. Provide assistance / technical advice on how to resolve some of the resolutions.
• Prepare the register for all the resolutions taken to be signed by both the departments and public entities and treasury. Attend all SCOPA public hearings. Take minutes during the public hearings for support of draft resolutions. Review audited AFS of departments for correct disclosure of unauthorised expenditure. Motivate to Legislature whether identified unauthorised expenditure should be approved with funding or not. Upon the receipt of SCOPA resolutions inform the Legal Services (OTP) to draft Finance Bill.
• Manage provincial internal control framework. Develop and amend Provincial Internal Control Framework. Develop monitoring tool to monitor implementation of the Framework by Institutions. Facilitate review and amendment of the Provincial Internal Control Framework. Produce Provincial Report to inform Oversight structures about the status of Internal Control in the Institutions. Coordinate provincial forensic investigations in the Province.
• Develop and amend Provincial Investigation Steering Framework for approval by the Committee. Serve as a Secretariat for the Provincial Investigation Steering Committee. Develop Terms of References as requested by the Investigation Steering Committee for Investigations. Liaise and provide support to Forensic Investigation Firms appointed. Follow-up with Institutions on implementation of Forensic Investigations Recommendations. Develop MOUS for assistant directors and monitor their quarterly performance.
• Develop MOU for five Assistant Directors and monitor and ensure its implementation throughout the year. Informal Quarterly Review of all Subordinates Performance. Formal Reviews of all Subordinates and submit to Human Resources Management. Support subordinates’ performance to achieve organisational goals in terms of training and capacity development. Quality assures the work of the subordinates.