Accounts Clerk at South African Reserve Bank

Brief Description        

• The main purpose of this position is to perform a variety of general accounting duties within the Financial Service Department of the South African Reserve Bank.

Detailed Description        
The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Perform general accounting duties and reconciliations in accordance with SARB policies, relevant accounting standards and acts.
• Prepare and provide information related to transactions within a defined context to relevant stakeholders.
• Perform general administration, including preparation of payment instructions, data capturing and record keeping in order to ensure the smooth running of the section operations.
• Engage in short term planning and perform tasks against work plans as defined in conjunction with supervisor.
• Perform work independently within established practices, given processes, rules and regulations ensuring compliance with standards, policies and other guidelines.
• Create and maintain consistent Metadata in a manner that allows for clear and unambiguous data element definition and meets legislative, quality and security requirements as well as test system changes.
• Engage with relevant stakeholders/clients, within the SARB and external parties, displaying a service orientation in own work and the ability to handle basic queries and explain information fluently.
• Proactively broaden knowledge of functional area, including technological advancement and displaying willingness to make improvements in own work (including methods and practices).
• Evaluate own performance against given criteria, identify and address task specific learning needs.

Job Requirements        
To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a National Diploma in Financial Accounting or an equivalent NQF 6 qualification;
• a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Financial Accounting will be an added advantage;
• one to two years’ working experience in an Accounting environment.

Additional requirements include:
knowledge and skill in:

• industry, organisational and business awareness;
• quality assurance;
• continuous improvement;
• continued learning and/or professional development;
• financial accounting;
• financial reconciliation;
• function specific - information systems;
• service delivery;
• finance legislation, and governance, risk and compliance;
• business continuity planning knowledge;
• payment settlement accounting;
• verbal and written communication;
• drive for results;
• learning focus;
• team work;
• service & stakeholder focus;
• analysis and problem solving.