State Accountant: Budget at Limpopo Department of Sport, Arts and Culture

REQUIREMENTS :

• Diploma / Bachelor’s Degree NQF level 06 / 07 in Financial Management or equivalent qualification related to the field or equivalent qualification related to the field as recognized by SAQA. A minimum of 2 years’ experience in Finance Management environment. A valid driver’s license (except for persons with disabilities).
• Knowledge and Skills: Knowledge of PFMA, Treasury regulations. Knowledge of the LOGIS / BAS system. Knowledge of finance, administration, planning and organising, budgeting and project management. Interpersonal and computer literacy skills. communication (verbal and written) skills. 

DUTIES :

• Prepare & capture journals: Capturing of budget in the system, requesting PERSAL report from salary section in order to check all misallocation, requesting Bas report in order to check all misclassification, preparing of journals on the sheet, capturing of journals on the BAS system. Prepare IRM report: Requesting Bas report in order for all infrastructure projects, preparing of IRM report on a monthly basis, ensure that expenditure is updated, ensure that the projections for all infrastructure are updated and ensure that the expenditure is in accordance with projections and is within the allocated budget.
• Prepare the monthly expenditure report: Requesting expenditure report on the system, capture the expenditure on the provided template on a monthly basis, ensure that all projection per month are updated as per the projections submitted to Provincial Treasury, ensure that all expenditure per month are updated and balancing and ensure that all commitment per month are updated and balanced as per the report on the system.
• Shifting of funds: requesting expenditure report on the system before shifting and ensure that funds are available for shifting, ensure that the shifting of funds is processed on Bas system, monitoring of the budget on Bas system and request Bas report after shifting to verify if the shifting was done correctly and send the updated report to the responsible programme manager. Maintain filling & filling documentation: Open new files, manage filling systems, collect all documentations within and outside the department as required by the section and distribute all documentations within and outside the department as required by the section.