Senior Professional Officer at City of Cape Town

Requirements

• Tertiary qualification, B-degree (Accounting as a major)
• Self-motivated and resourceful
• Portray values of trust, service excellence, accountability,
• accessibility and integrity
• Five (5) to eight (8) years’ experience preferably in a budget
• analytical environment with exposure to analysing large amounts of
• data and creating concise reports
• Computer literate, MS Office, Advance Excel skills, SAP and ERP
• would be an advantage
• Excellent communication, analytical and numeric skills
• A valid driver’s licence

Key Performance Areas

• Provide professional financial and budgeting functional input and support in respect of the preparation and compilation of the annual
• Corporate Capital Budget, multi-year Capital Budget and Adjustments Budgets
• Ensure compliance to legislative requirements within the statutory timeframes as prescribed by the Municipal Finance Management
• Act (MFMA) and adherence to GRAP
• Maintain budgetary amendments including changes 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
• Review, analyse, verify and process financial / budgetary information in support of policy Implement effective and efficient internal monitoring and control of budgetary related processes
• Communicate with internal and external clients in a customer centric manner in order to work on issues of common interest and/ orto share information, to keep all affected parties fully informed andaware of issues of common concern, and facilitate the objectives ofthe Department/ Branch
• Drawing up of complex correspondence to facilitate the functioning of the Department/ Branch, in order to accurate record keeping and ensure effective use of the Department’s/Branch’sservices and resources.