Senior State Accountant: Personnel Remuneration at National Treasury

Qualification/s Requirements

• A Grade 12 is required coupled with a minimum National Diploma (NQF 6)/ B. Degree (NQF7) in Financial Management/ Accounting, 
• A minimum 2 years’ appropriate experience and knowledge of Remuneration and Debtors Management; and
• In-depth and knowledge and experience of PERSAL and BAS

Key Performance Areas

Efficiently and effectively process accounting transactions relating to the Department’s payroll: 

• Accurately calculate and record, obtain and file necessary supporting documentation for all payroll related transactions, Capture/authorise payroll related transactions within the PERSAL/BAS Systems;
• Provide budgetary information in the required format;
• Prepare monthly and annual management reports and/or supply such other information regarding the Department’s payroll;
• Continuously comply with all relevant and application statutes, regulations and departmental prescripts applicable to the Department’s payroll; and
• Execute project related activities in accordance with the approved projects deliverables. 

Account for and administer amounts owed to the Department (debtors management): 

• Identify, calculate, record and process amounts owed to the Department, and ensure that those amounts owed are substantiate with necessary supporting documentation and recovered within the periods allowed;
• Prepare monthly debtors reconciliations and distribute debtors’ statements within the appropriate time frames, liaise with and make recommendation to the relevant authorities concerning the recovery or writing off of amounts owed to the Department;
• Prepare monthly management reports and/or supply such other information pertaining to debtor control/suspense accounts; and
• Continuously comply with all relevant and application statutes, regulations and departmental prescripts applicable to debtors’ management. 

Administer the subsistence and travel advance and claims payable to staff:

• Accurately calculate, record and process amount payable to employees and ensure that transactions are properly supported with the necessary supporting documentation;
• Prepare monthly management reports and supply such other information regarding subsistence and travel;
• Continuously comply with all relevant and application statutes, regulations and departmental prescripts applicable to subsistence and travel advance/claims; and
• Execute project related activities in accordance with the approved projects deliverables. 

Administer service terminations (resignations and transfers): 

• Obtain/request the necessary documentation and ensure that the required documentation is duly completed and approved by the applicable line managers and forwarded to the relevant intuitions;
• Capture/process service termination and related transactions within the PERSAL/BAS Systems;
• Identify amounts owed to/by the employee and ensure that such amount are properly supported, accurately calculated, repaid to the employee or received by the Department within the relevant prescripts;
• Continuously comply with all relevant and application statutes, regulations and departmental prescripts applicable to service terminations; and
• Execute project related activities in accordance with the approved projects deliverables.

Ensure that tax is deducted from service providers/consultants:

• Obtain required documentation from service providers or consultants and ensure that the documentation is duly completed and validate the information provided;
• Accurately calculate and record tax payable by service providers or consultants and ensure that transactions are properly supported with the necessary supporting documentation and paid over to South African Revenue Service within required timeframes;
• Issue relevant certificates to service providers/consultants and South African Revenue Service;
• Continuously comply with all relevant and application statutes, regulations and departmental prescripts applicable to service terminations. 

Monitor and ensure that amounts allocated to control/suspense accounts are cleared and reconciled on a timely basis: 

• Continuously correspond/communicate with institutions in order to recover/clear amounts allocated to control/suspense accounts;
• Prepare monthly reconciliations and ensure that amounts allocated to control/suspense accounts are cleared on a timely basis;
• Prepare monthly and annual management reports and supply such other information pertaining to control/suspense accounts; and
• Continuously comply with all the relevant and applicable statutes, regulations and departmental prescripts that are applicable to the control/suspense accounts.