Job Openings at Johannesburg Roads Agency(JAR)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Assess statistical and accounting information to appraise operating results in terms of costs, budgets, operations, policies, trends and increasing profit possibilities.
• Maintain, review, revise and monitor accounting information to support business operations.
• Review and analyse consolidated reports for all finance units.
• Support the external audit function to ensure compliance with accounting standards, law and internal controls.
• Ensure the evaluation of capital projects, protection of capital and safeguarding of assets by mitigation of risks including commercial, financial and regulatory.
• Drive the development of the JRA business strategy and the Service Delivery Budget Implementation Plan (SDBIP) as part of the Executive Management Team (EMT) to ensure alignment with the City of Johannesburg’s Growth and Development Strategy (GDS) and strategic priorities.
• Provide input to the JRA business plan and budget from the business unit’s perspective.
• Monitor adherence to an organisational structure that will support strategy implementation.
• Enforce legislative compliance from a business unit perspective.
• Provide management reports so that internal and external stakeholders are informed of performance progress and relevant issues of the business unit.
• Develop and implement mitigating measures for the unit.
• Ensure that assessments of the quality of the assurance are conducted through interaction with the assurance recipients, for the unit.
• Support the CFO in the implementation of effective and equitable human resource management strategies and policies for the finance team.
• Facilitate compliance with the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA).
• Provide relevant stakeholder information that will contribute to the stakeholder analysis exercise.
• Provide the HOD with critical information/feedback that will facilitate management decisions.

REQUIREMENTS AND SELECTION CRITERIA

• Bachelor’s degree in financial management, or relevant NQF level 7 equivalent.
• 10 years’ experience in financial management, inclusive of 5 years in a managerial position of which one must be at senior management level.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Implement the Region’s Operational Plan with oversight from the Operations Manager.
• Monitor and report on progress and incorporate new delivery requirements into operational planning.
• Ensure effective delivery against the Region’s Operational Plan in terms of routine road infrastructure maintenance.
• Oversee the implementation of the road signs and markings objectives for the region.
• Oversee the provision of monitoring and compliance services that ensure adherence to regulations and civil construction standards when damage is repaired, or alterations are made to roads infrastructure.
• Ensure that internal stakeholders (staff, managers, union and other maintenance managers and JRA officials) are informed and included in issues relevant to them.
• Analyse and leverage production statistics to maximise production output.
• Manage and work proactively to improve depot staff work ethic and deal quickly and decisively with failure to meet reasonable work targets and other disciplinary matters.
• Guide the implementation of the approved operational plan.
• Translate operational feedback into strategic recommendations.
• Guide the implementation of the approved operational plan.
• Identify, update and manage the strategic and operational risks of the unit and make inputs to the Operational Risk Register.
• Ensure that assessments of the quality of the assurance are conducted through interaction with the assurance recipients, for the unit.
• Drive talent management for the reporting line in terms of recruitment, development and retention.
• Prepare monthly expenditure reports on the budget.
• Provide the Operations Manager with critical information/feedback that will facilitate management decisions. 

REQUIREMENTS AND SELECTION CRITERIA

• BSc degree in Civil Engineering or relevant NQF level 7 equivalent.
• 8 years’ Civil Engineering experience, inclusive 5 years in a middle management position.