Junior Accountant - Mthatha at The South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Job Purpose

• To perform the financial activities of the operations within predefined guidelines and structures, ensuring good governance, and the economic, efficient and effective administration of finances as required by the Public Finance Management Act.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Relevant Higher Certificate Accounting/ Finance (NQF 5) AND 2 years' experience an Accounting/Financial environment.

ALTERNATIVE

• Senior Certificate with Accounting/Maths as a subject (NQF 4) AND 3 years' experience in an an Accounting/Financial

Job Outputs:

Process

• Administer the travel and S&T claims and to ensure the timeous submission and payment.
• Apply procedures in order to deliver set objectives to the best advantage of the functional work area.
• Assist with functional and administrative tasks and procedures relating to the functional area.
• Capturing and posting of accurate and complete payments.
• Check all documents and ensure correctness and compliance to SOPs, policies and processes.
• Ensure accurate record keeping of all the relevant documentation in line with standard operating procedures.
• Gathering, tracking, managing, monitoring of financial information for control purposes in order to contribute to accurate financial reporting.
• Interact with different stakeholders by getting feedback and escalate.
• Prioritisation of own work against in accordance of internal & external financial calendar.
• Quality assure documents or work content to ensure accuracy, correct calculation, validity and completeness of data and information and minimise mistakes.
• Reporting on financial transactions in own area of work.
• To reconciliation of financial transactions.
• To resolve queries from the remedy system by providing feedback and/or sourcing more information in order to rescue in accordance with legislative requirements.
• Validation of payment information and documentation in terms of compliance, completeness and correctness against legislative requirements.

Governance

• Comply to set governance and compliance procedures and processes related to an area of work and continuously identify and escalate risks.

People

• Drive own performance and development in order to achieve and improve on work outputs in line with required response time, quality and service delivery standards.
• Search for, integrate and share new knowledge attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.

Finance

• Ensure effective and efficient administration of operational costs within budget.
• Adhere to specified policies, standards, legislation and procedures to prevent wastage on resources, unauthorised expenditure and wasteful expenditure and report violations.

Client

• Contribute to a culture of service excellence, which builds positive relationships and provides opportunity for feedback and exceptional service.
• Ensure client satisfaction by engaging and delivering a service that is consistent, seamless, quick and error free.