Assistant Director: Accounting Compliance (General Accounting)

About the role

The Provincial Treasury (Gauteng) is hiring an Assistant Director: Accounting Compliance (General Accounting) in Financial Governance, based in Johannesburg. This is a permanent post, paying R487,197 a year. How to apply: Applications should be submitted online at: https://jobs.gauteng.gov.za Reference number to quote: REFS/056977 Closing date: 09 November 2026 @00:00 midnight Use the new Z83 form and attach a detailed CV.

Responsibilities

• To provide effective and efficient accounting compliance services to the GPG Departments and Trading Entities.
• Engage with relevant internal and external stakeholders regarding Trial Balance (TB) analysis, monitoring expenditure and reviewing the AFS/IFS.
• Monitor the processing of Journals and Perform manual interface.
• Monitor the analysis of Expenditure Reports against Approved Budget.
• Analyse and reconcile ledger report according to the NT Accounting Standards for GPG departments.
• Review of Annual and Interim Financial Statements (AFS/IFS) reports in accordance with applicable accounting standards.
• Supervision of staff.

Requirements

• A three year-tertiary qualification (NQF level 7) as recognised by SAQA in Financial Accounting or BCom -Majoring in Financial Accounting.
• 3-5 years’ proven work experience in the monitoring and analysing of processing journals, analysing General Ledger, and worked in the accounting environment at an administrator functional level.
• BAS, SAP, PERSAL and online processing of journals on BAS experience will be an advantage.