South African Tourism markets South Africa's scenic beauty, diverse wildlife, kaleidoscope of cultures and heritages, the great outdoors, sport and adventure opportunities, eco-tourism and conference facilities.
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Senior State Accountant: Creditors, Travel, Accomodation and Subsistence
An appropriate recognised NQF 6/7 qualification in Financial Accounting/ Financial Management/ Management Accounting/ Public Administration.
Three to five years’ relevant working experience in Finance. Relevant public service training courses.
DUTIES :
The successful candidate will be responsible for receiving T&S advances and claim forms from officials within the department; verifying details captured by State Accountants to ensure that the forms were captured correctly; approving foreign trips; authorising T&S on BAS and PERSAL; receiving and authorising payments with regards to travel and accommodation, cell phone claims, projects. foreign affairs etc. processing and authorising General Journal payments for authorisations; verifying cell phone limits;
receiving order payments from SCM for processing; receiving and verifying check list of LOGIS payments from SCM; requesting the following reports: T&S Advance, Tourvest Holdings, Advance account for National Departments for DIRCO claims, Telkom exceptions; receiving and checking the completeness or correctness of documents including attachments; matching/ verifying and checking invoices with the VA26A, budget allocations and creating correct BAS allocation of VA26A or supplier invoice;
ensuring that invoices are settled within 30 days as per Treasury Regulations; checking the quality of invoices received; identifying fruitless and wasteful expenditure cases on supplier invoices; informing internal control/ officials or the agency about identified cases of fruitless and wasteful expenditure; ensuring expenditure is correctly classified and allocated;
reconciling travel and accommodation service providers weekly statements and open item to monthly statements; adding the payment stub number and the action/disbursement date next to the invoices paid; providing comments on all unpaid invoices on the reconciliation; identifying duplicate invoices and informing the travel agency; distributing reconciled statements to travel officials.