Project Manager (12 Months FTC) at IDC

Qualification and Experience

• BCom with post graduate degree e.g., BCompt (Honours).
• Exposure to legal environment and project management will be an advantage
• The candidate should have at least a minimum of 8 years’ experience which includes experience in financial accounting, and project management.
• Experience with Trust Accounting and/ or review of Trust accounts and/ signed off or financial statement analysis and review of PBOs.
• A strong financial accounting knowledge and experience base focused on financial statement analysis and reporting.
• Experience in doing full cycle accounting would be an added advantage.
• Sound corporate and commercial legal knowledge.
• Necessary skills and competence to deal with the establishment and management of Trusts.
• Project management experience.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate the information required from each project/province;
• Create the terms of reference for appointments of the required service providers which include but are not limited to lawyers, auditors and consultants required to achieve the various milestones;
• Ensure the project remains on track in terms of costs and timelines;
• With support from the relevant service provider, prepare a set of financial statements from record to report for each of the trusts;
• Generation of reports such as General ledger, Trial balance, etc. for these trusts;
• Submit tax returns to SARS for the period since the inception of the respective trusts;
• Review all the trust documents, NCDI project agreements, loan and grant agreements;
• Advice on compliance and proper governance structures to enable conversion of the trusts to PBOs;
• Set out the process of conversion of the trusts to PBOs;
• Regular follow-up with relevant government department and the Master’s office;
• Reinstate, amend, and align the NCDI project agreements to reflect the conversion of loans to grants in the agreements.