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.