Accountant: Revenue at Laingsburg Local Municipality

REQUIREMENTS

• A relevant 3-year tertiary qualification, preferably a National Diploma or BCom with financial accounting as a major subject
• 2-5 years relevant revenue experience
• Computer Literacy: MS Office package
• A valid Code B driver's license

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Ability to conducts financial duties according to prescribed norms and standards under the general direction of an experienced Manager
• Good working knowledge and experience of applicable local government legislation (e.g. MSA, MFMA), and others as applicable
• Applicants must be literate in at least two of the three official languages of the Western Cape.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

• Administer revenue enhancement and credit control policies and procedures in accordance with legislative requirements
• Implementing council's credit control policy for overdue debtor's accounts and perform credit control duties.
• Coordinating the recording and processing procedures of debt collection measures against services rendered.
• Manages and controls specific administrative procedures and sequences associated with debtors.
• Co-ordinates and controls tasks/activities associated with controlling personnel performance, productivity and discipline.
• Verifying monthly bank reconciliation and cash reconciliations through identifying and correcting discrepancies between cash book and bank statement.
• Analysing transactional recording (reports generated by the Consolidated Billing System), Debtors reports and summaries and processing adjustment to entries.
• Running system functionality to upload billing data to individual debtor account by using all segments of MSCOA
• Providing support with regards to the consolidation of Income transactional information to facilitate the production of Financial Statements.
• Preparing statistical reports depicting short to medium term cash flow trends inclusive of explanations to support specific deviations.
• Interacting with the internal/external auditors and makes available information, supporting documentation and proof of approval guiding specific recordings, adjustments and allocation of Account receivable transactions.
• Reconciling cash receipted and proceeding with the posting and balancing of General Ledger
• Generating reminder notifications for circulation to overdue debtors and/or communicating, calculating and establishing payment terms and conditions with defaulters.
• Generating Debtors Age Analysis reports and checks the status of accounts with a view to referring arrear/overdue accounts for further action.
• Preparing and/or approving correspondence and calculations of rates due on properties and buildings, forwarding to legal professionals to facilitate the preparation of specific contractual documentation.
• Attending to queries related to the calculations of penalties/interest on and providing explanations to clients
• Issuing rates certificates to support the transfer/sale agreement and providing payment terms and conditions.
• Providing guidelines/guidance to personnel on the application of procedures.
• Implementing remedial measures/corrective action to align performance and outputs against agreed standards.
• Appraising performance levels, setting objectives and measuring accomplishment or establishing reasons fornon-conformance. Supervising the annual indigent verification and application processes. Supervising all prepaid related services in the Laingsburg Municipal area.
• Responsible for monthly, quarterly and yearly reporting to Provincial, National Government and Treasury.
• Monitor monthly, quarterly and yearly reporting on the different reporting mechanisms of the Budget | Processes.
• Supervising subordinates and meeting ser deadlines.
• Any other duties assigned by the Manager Financial Services

Closing Date: 05 January 2026