Financial Officer: Accounts (Petty Cash)

In brief

**Overview** This role is for a Financial Officer: Accounts (Petty Cash) at the South African Revenue Service (SARS). The primary purpose of this position is to process accounting transactions and perform reconciliations, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of financial records in adherence to established policies and procedures. **What you will do** * Verify invoices, documents, payments, receipts, and tax invoices for validity and correctness. * Follow up on outstanding invoices, payments, and receipts to identify discrepancies and variances. * Capture and verify financial transactions to ensure accurate treatment and/or payment. * Perform quality assurance on captured transactions to ensure accuracy, correct calculation, validity, and completeness of data and information. * Reconcile accounts to confirm and identify discrepancies/variances and ensure balances are accurate, complete, and valid. * Prepare accruals for services rendered at the financial year-end. * Facilitate and resolve bank rejections in conjunction with Procurement and payroll departments. * Monitor, assign, resolve, and finalise incoming remedies on a daily basis. * Maintain stakeholder relationships and handle inquiries. * Compile and perform report analysis for monthly submissions on financial transactions/statistics as prescribed within the relevant statutory framework. * Communicate transactional outputs and queries according to policies and quality requirements. * Contribute to the development and improvement of area-specific standards, procedures, and processes for continuous quality and service improvement. * Contribute to the successful implementation of change initiatives by providing support in your area of work. * Deliver on contracted performance objectives and escalate unresolved delivery and quality issues to management and process owners. * Draw on knowledge and experience to identify and develop solutions for improved service delivery and quality. * Effectively plan and schedule own activities to continuously improve quality and service delivery. * Comply with organisational internal control and governance standards in finance and procurement processes. * Comply with set governance and compliance procedures and processes related to your area of work, continuously identifying and escalating risks. * Drive own performance and development to achieve and improve on work outputs in line with required response time, quality, and service delivery standards. * Search for, integrate, and share new knowledge attained through formal and informal learning opportunities. * Adhere to specified policies, standards, legislation, and procedures to prevent wastage on resources, unauthorised expenditure, and wasteful expenditure, and report violations. * Contribute to a culture of service excellence, building positive relationships and providing opportunities for feedback and exceptional service. * Ensure client satisfaction by engaging and delivering a service that is consistent, seamless, quick, and error-free. **Requirements (from the original advert)** **Education and Experience:** * **Minimum Qualification & Experience Required:** * Relevant Higher Certificate Accounting Certificate/ Diploma NQF 5 AND 2 years' experience in a Finance or similar financial environment. * **Alternative (for internal SARS staff):** * Senior Certificate NQF 4 AND 3 years related experience in a Finance or similar financial environment. **Behavioural Competencies:** * Fairness and Transparency * Honesty and Integrity * Accountability * Conceptual Ability * Trust * Respect * Attention to Detail * Building Sustainability **Technical Competencies:** * Functional Policies and Procedures * Financial Administration * Standard operating procedure compliance * Planning and Organising * Financial Control * Financial and Performance Reporting * Financial Acumen * Written Communication * Verbal Communication * Financial Analysis and Reporting * Analytical Thinker **Who should apply** The ideal candidate for this role is an individual capable of meticulously processing accounting transactions, performing reconciliations, and ensuring the accuracy and completeness of financial records in strict accordance with policies. This person should be proficient in verifying, capturing, and quality assuring financial transactions, preparing accruals, and resolving discrepancies and bank rejections. The role requires someone who can effectively manage stakeholder relationships, compile financial reports, communicate transactional outputs clearly, and actively contribute to process improvement and compliance with governance standards. A strong commitment to driving personal performance, integrating new knowledge, adhering to financial policies to prevent wastage, and delivering consistent, high-quality client service is essential. Candidates must demonstrate strong behavioural traits such as fairness, transparency, honesty, integrity, accountability, conceptual ability, trust, respect, attention to detail, and a focus on building sustainability. They should also possess well-developed technical skills in financial administration, planning, control, reporting, acumen, analysis, and communication. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/financial-officer-accounts-petty-cash-the-south-african-revenue-service-sars Source: myjobmag

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