Director: MSCOSA Compliance at City of Tshwane

Reference number FISE592-2024

Job purpose

• To maintain the City’s budgeting systems in compliance with the Municipal Standard Chart of Accounts (mSCOA)

Appointment requirements

• An appropriate three-year career-related tertiary qualification (national diploma or degree) in Information Technology, Finance or Accounting or any other study field related to the position
• Registration as a Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)), registration with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants or registration with any other accounting profession will be an added advantage
• At least nine years’ working experience with specific experience in implementing mSCOA, of which at least four years should be at managerial level

Must undergo vetting and a lifestyle audit

• Compliance with the MFMA unit standards, as prescribed by Regulation 493 of 15 June 2007, as published in Government Gazette 29967 of 15 June 2007, will be an added advantage
• A valid Code B driving licence
• Computer literacy with a combination of the skills coupled with municipal experience and advanced SAP proficiency, Financial Information Systems, Data Science, SQL developer and Python programming

Personal attributes and/or competencies

• Accounting: Establish appropriate accounting systems for the organisation and ensure that the rules of GRAP and other good accounting practices are adhered to
• Budgeting: Establish and manage credible budgets within legislative, political and administrative mandates
• Financial management: Drive the optimisation of the municipality’s financial management through the use of standard operating procedures
• Financial reporting: Identify the overall objectives of financial reporting, the specific information needs of stakeholders and the general information needs of others
• Organisational awareness: Understand the key drivers in the sector and the City of Tshwane and apply this understanding to meet service delivery objectives and challenges
• Planning and organising: Plan activities within specific time frames and then execute these activities according to plan

Primary functions

• Set up budgeting, planning and monitoring business processes in line with MFMA Circular 80 specifications of business processes for compliance with mSCOA regulations
• Gather, research, interpret and analyse business requirements and recommend solutions for project-driven planning, linking the operational and capital budget and reporting in terms of the seven mSCOA segments to the Integrated Development Plan
• Assist with the enablement and maintenance of SAP BPC for mSCOA budgeting
• Align, purify and maintain master data together with the development of strategies to ensure that the correct data is uploaded to SAP
• Create and maintain new general ledger accounts, cost centres, work breakdown structures, mSCOA short codes and linkages to the correct budget structures in line with mSCOA requirements
• Maintain the mSCOA vault or workbench
• Assist with system developments and maintenance for mSCOA reporting
• Extract data from the mandatory six mSCOA segments and upload to the National Treasury Local Government Database portal of the following budget, project and reporting data strings: mSCOA Monthly Submission of Actuals (Transactions Strings); Monthly submissions (Debtors Age Analysis); Monthly submissions (Creditors Age Analysis); Quarterly submissions (Borrowing Monitoring (external loans; Quarterly submissions (Layout for loans/Bonds); Quarterly submissions Investment monitoring); Quarterly submissions (Layout for Investments); PROR (Projects Data Strings); TABB (Draft Budget); ORGB (Approved Budget); ADJB (Adjusted Budget)
• Assist in ensuring that the information submitted to the National Treasury by the City meets the technical requirements for National Treasury validation tests
• Develop and align integrated data management solutions for relevant SAP modules
• Identify change management requirements and provide divisional and departmental capacity development and training aligned to financial management policies and system enhancements
• Provide technical support to all departments and entities of the City in the implementation of mSCOA budget processes
• Assist with the compilation of Schedules A, B and C of the Municipal Budgeting and Reporting Regulations for the Medium-term Revenue and Expenditure Framework