Dean Christopher Ray Damons

Creditors

• Process the payment for subsistence and travel, and ensuring relevant source payment documentation is in order.
• Process payment of creditors on weekly basis (preparation of payment vouchers).
• Capturing of payments on ABSA Business Integrator.
• Ensuring that orders and invoices are duly authorized and approved, by determining correct vote numbers and reflection of correct quantities and amounts.
• Capturing of orders on the financial system, and linking orders to their respective invoices.
• General reconciling of creditor accounts at end of month.
• Update of relevant creditor information on the financial system and creditor database.
• Compile monthly VAT201 return for submission to SARS, query disputes and returns.
• Posting of journals to specific ledger accounts.
• General administrative- and filing duties.
• Monitor petty cash transactions during month.
• Monitor monthly budget transactions and overspending on votes.
• Execution of month-end procedures, backup of financial data.

Budget& AFS

• Preparing statistical reports to National Treasury.
• Evaluating the Municipality's performance against the approved budget and addressing deviations/variances with appropriate personnel.
• Assisting in the developing and compiling of the adjustment budget.
• Receiving and coordinating information from revenue and relevant departments in order to compile the section 52 and 71 reports timeously.
• Providing supporting transactional documents to Directorate Corporate Services to facilitate the compilation of section 72 reports to provincial and national Treasury.
• Extracting data from the Financial System and compile the section 52 and 71 reports in the described format as required by National Treasury.
• Reviewing information for accuracy, identify any anomalies and where appropriate, take corrective action or report anomalies to management.
• Ensuring that the section 52 and 71 reports are distributed to Provincial and National Treasury in compliance with the MFMA.

Revenue- Cashier

• Received and receipted payments, including pre-paid electricity vouchers.
• Balanced daily cash ups and processed all municipal receipts.
• Handled customer queries and managed account-related transactions.
• Reconciled deposits and updated financial records.
• Maintained documentation and performed general administrative duties.

Internal Control

• Compiled internal control procedures and assisted with their implementation across financial operations.
• Collected, processed, and reported statistical, statutory, and management information.
• Compiled and monitored the audit action plan for the Financial Management Services section.
• Reviewed and compiled year-end reconciliations and supporting schedules for financial statements.
• Conducted quality reviews of the audit file to ensure readiness for external audits.

• Gather client information.
• Prepare annual working paper files.
• Compile annual financial statements in accordance with IFRS for SME's.
• Perform independent reviews in accordance with ISRE2400.
• Process and reconcile monthly client transactions and produce management accounts as required.
• Produce and submit statutory returns (VAT) and resolve SARS queries.
• Resolve review from the manager and partner.
• Train junior trainee accountants.