Deputy Director: National Governments Accounts at National Treasury

Qualification/s Requirements

• A Grade 12 coupled with a minimum Bachelor’s degree (equivalent to NQF level 7) in Accounting or Public Finance or Economics or Business Economics or Management;
• A Minimum 4 years’ experience is required of which 2 years should be at an Assistant Director level or equivalent obtained in the budgeting process;
• Knowledge of utilising the economic reporting format, and the International Monetary Funds’ Government Finance Statistics system of classification; and 
• Knowledge of utilising the Microsoft Suite of products, with emphasis on Excel spreadsheets.

Key Performance Areas

Develop national departments’ financial outcome data sets as well as reporting on departmental receipts:

• Administer the compilation of a database of annual financial statement actual expenditure and receipts in line with accounting and economic standards. Verify the data and prepare the relevant summaries; and
• Consolidate the preliminary receipts and outcome numbers for national departments at year-end; and
• Attend the monthly Section 32 meetings and discuss any inconsistencies with the Office of the Accountant-General to ensure correctness of data to be published.

National department datasets and tables for MTBPS, AENE, ENE and Budget Review:

• Compile datasets and tables required for MTBPS, AENE, ENE and Budget Review.
• Compile a Departmental receipts summary table for MTBPS and ENE.
• Develop and update ENE checklist and analysis tool to verify the technical accuracy of the Budget database.
• Prepare ENE summary tables.
• Reconcile national departments’ history data published by Statistics SA and SARB with the numbers published in the Budget Review

Government statistics of all national departments for inclusion in the budget publications:

• Do a trend analysis for the MTBPS and Budget Review;
• Assist with the verification of the MTBPS and Budget Review chapters in the week before publication;
• Analyse Budget databases and inform budget analysts of inconsistencies;
• Arrange and attend weekly ENE Data Central Team meetings and provide inputs;
• Reconcile all function shifts between departments; and
• Provide datasets for various cross cutting reporting and planning projects.