Director: Management Accounting at Gauteng Department Of Infrastructure Development

Requirements :

• An undergraduate qualification at NQF level 7 in Financial Management/Accounting/ Business Administration.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience at middle/senior managerial level. A valid driver’s license. A Pre-Entry SMS Certificate.

Duties :

• Support the Chief Director and other departmental officials in the execution of their functions in terms of the Public Finance Act and Treasury Regulations. Establish and maintain appropriate systems (analytical tools, information systems and models or projections of cost behaviour) and policies to ensure effective and efficient management of resources. Establish and implement strategic budget systems .Manage performance of the departmental programmes. Manage budget and expenditure and trading accounts of the department.
• Maintain communication with the CFO and availability of relevant financial information. Maintain full and proper records of financial affairs of the department. Ensure correspondence of departmental expenditure with the vote of the department and the main division within the department. Develop effective and appropriate mechanisms to prevent unauthorised expenditure. Manage the identification of revenue sources. Reconcile revenue records.
• Manage compliance with the annual Division of Revenue Act. Implement and monitor well-designed best practice revenue models for the department. Manage funds in the unit in compliance with Public Finance Management Act and the Treasury Regulations. Limit under spending or overspending by the of the departmental budget allocations.
• Demonstrate knowledge of general concepts of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting and how they interrelate. Manage and monitor financial risk. Continuously look for new opportunities to obtain and save funds. Prepare financial reports and guidelines based on prescribed formats. Understand and weigh up financial implications of propositions. Align expenditure to cash flow projections. Develop corrective measures/actions to ensure alignment of budget to financial resources.
• Manage client relations and stakeholder management. Manage risks and implementation of risk mitigation strategies. Align the strategic priorities and the workplans of the unit with the priorities of DID. Develop operational plans for Branch and work plans. Manage written contributions to Departmental quarterly progress reports, Annual Report, SCOPA, Budget speeches, Annual Performance Plan, etc. Sign performance agreements for the unit based on approved Job Descriptions, Strategic and Annual Performance Plans of the Department. Manage human resources in unit and maintain discipline.
• Manage training and development of personnel according to agreed training interventions. Manage the provision of equipment required by personnel for achievement of outputs in their respective Job Descriptions. Provide regular verbal and written feedback [aligned to quarterly performance assessments] to personnel on performance.
• Mentor and coach personnel. Develop and update the service delivery and work plan for the unit. Provide sufficient guidance to personnel in terms of the service delivery plan, work plans, core business roles and priorities of the Department through quarterly personnel meetings. Manage skills transfer between personnel in the unit and outside technical assistants and/or consultants. Plan & allocate work responsibilities and processes to control work performance including quality assurance.