Accountant Position Reference Number : Adahrm

Position: ACCOUNTANT POSITION REFERENCE NUMBER : ADAHRM01/2025

Accountant Position

Reference Number: ADAHRM

01/2025

Job Title: Accountant

Location: 5 Cascades Crescent, Pietermaritzburg

Grade/Salary: L09 (DPSA Salary Scale)

Fixed term contract: 3 Years (Fixed Term Contract)

Reporting Line: Finance Manager

Unit: Office of the Chief Finance Officer

Minimum Requirements

• Must have completed matric.
• A relevant Accounting Degree or National Diploma
• Minimum of 3 years relevant experience
• A valid driver’s licence

Skills, Knowledge & Competencies

• Sound bookkeeping and accounting skills
• Capacity to work alone to deadlines, to establish priorities
• Strong interpretive skills
• Strong IT skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong problem solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to think conceptually and strategically
• Strong analytical, policy and operational thinking skills
• Effective planning and organisational skills
• Ability to use initiative
• Knowledge of electronic financial management systems
• Thorough knowledge and experience in financial accounting
• Working knowledge of budgeting, expenditure control and financial reporting
• Working knowledge of internal controls, risk management, and fraud prevention
• Knowledge of relevant legal prescripts

Key Performance Areas Ensure financial functions are performed accurately and timeously.

• Managing project Budgets, conducting project visits and reporting on the findings.
• Processing the payroll on a monthly basis.
• Depositing cash received.
• Conducting project visits and preparing reports.
• Perform financial planning tasks as required.
• To monitor and manage project cash flows.
• Report to the Financial Manager on income and expenditure at organisational level, by projects and by line item.
• Ensure compliance with all laws, regulations and policies.
• Assist in providing input into policy development, operational plans, strategic plans and annual report.
• Ensure effective implementation of Debtors and Creditors control systems.
• Administer petty cash on a daily basis and preparing petty cash reconciliations for reimbursement.
• Recording all receipts and payments in the cashbook.
• Maintaining the grant register on a monthly basis and reconciling unspent conditional grants
• Process transactions on accounting system.
• Perform monthly general ledger reconciliations.
• Attend to finance filing and archiving.
• Maintaining a register of all invoices received and following up on long outstanding invoices.
• Adhoc duties required by the incumbent’s supervisor.

Suitable candidates will be selected with the intention of promoting representativity. Note

• All applicants are subject to the signing of performance agreement.
• ADA reserves the right not to appoint any applicant to the above position.
• Preference will be given to members of designated group
• Females and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply
• Applications must be submitted in the following manner:
• A covering letter indicating the reference number and the post that you are applying for, together with a brief motivation
• NB: A Comprehensive Curriculum Vitae (Previous experience must be comprehensively detailed
• NB:

Certified copies will be requested once shortlisted.

• Failure to submit the requested documents will result in the application being disqualified.
• Full names, addresses and telephone numbers of three work related referees.
• If you are applying for more than one post, please submit a separate application for each post.

Failure to comply with the above instructions will disqualify applicants

Enquiries:

Mr Jerry Mfusi

Closing Date: 20 November 2025

Telephone:

Should you not hear from ADA 8 weeks after the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful

Interested applicants are requested to submit their applications exclusively via the email address provided:

Please note that all applications must be submitted electronically to this designated email address. Physical or hard copy submissions will not be accepted.

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