Finance Manager at Joburg City Theatres

Requirements and skills 

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related field (NQF Level 7) 
• A solid understanding of financial statistics and accounting principles 
• Working knowledge of all statutory legislation and regulations 
• Extensive 6 years of experience within the finance environment. 
• Proficient user of finance software 
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills 
• Municipal Finance Management Programme certificate from an accredited institute will be an added advantage 

 Primary Function 

• To oversee end to end finance operations, financial planning and analysis, balance sheet reconciliation. 

Key responsibilities: 

• Prepare annual financial statement for the organization (monthly, quarterly and year end) 
• Review audit file and ensure that the file is submitted to AG 
• Review and analyse management accounts 
• Ensure budget is allocated accurately 
• Ensure there is no abnormalities on the income and expenditure 
• Ensure the management account report is aligned to the income statements 
• Prepare MFMA and SDBIP monthly 
• Ensure that subsidy is recognized on the system monthly 
• Ensure that the provision for insurance and COIDA is recognized on the system monthly 
• Ensure that upon receipt of tax invoice for insurance and COIDA, adjustment is done, and the account is cleared as at year end. 
• Prepare budget (OPEX and CAPEX) for the organisation 
• Review, monitor and manage budget 
• Ensure operation budget is uploaded accurately on the sage system. 
• Ensure capital expenditure is uploaded accurately on JSIP system 
• Prepare motivations to support budget adjustment. 
• Import trial balance from sage evolution system and convert it to Mscoa reporting template 
• Upload the converted trial balance to SAP system 
• Ensure the trial balance from sage evolution system and SAP are reconciled 
• Ensure quality certificate is signed and sent to the parent municipality 
• Prepare quarterly reports for capital expenditure 
• Ensure capital expenditure spent is claimed 
• Ensure submitted claims are paid 
• Ensure progress reports and completion certificates are signed off by the project managers and submitted to the parent municipality 
• Ensure the control account is reconciled as at year end. 
• Prepare quarterly audit reports. 
• Liaise and engage with auditors 
• Ensure audit findings raised are resolved 
• Ensure evidence is collected and filed 
• Ensure Exco and Manco are prepared and submitted to members on a weekly basis.