Professional Officer - Capital Budgets at City of Cape Town

Requirements:

• B.Com degree, financial qualification
• 2 to 5 years’ experience preferably in a budget analytical environment
• Self-motivated and resourceful
• Experience in analysing large amounts of data and creating concise reports.
• Knowledge of SAP or an ERP environment is advantageous
• Advanced Excel skills (Pivot tables, V-look up)
• High-end analytical and numeric skills.
• Proficiency in the English language both written and verbal.

Key Performance Areas:

• Providing support to the immediate supervisor in respect of the preparation and compilation of the annual Corporate Capital
• Budget, multi-year Capital Budget and Adjustments Budgets
• Affecting budgetary amendments on the SAP system during the course of the financial year, to provide reliable, accurate and timeous financial information to ensure the integrity of the capital budget
• Reviewing, analysing and constructing a proposal in support of policy review to comply with statutory, legislative and internal requirements to ensure effective and efficient internal monitoring and control of budgetary related processes.
• Communicating with fellow professionals as well as internal and external clients in a customer centric manner in order to work on issues of common interest and/ or to share information
• Drafting e-mails to give information and resolve queries or problems.
• Responding to enquiries and requests for services from clients ensuring a customer centric approach