Director: Transport

Public Finance
Urban Development Infrastructure
Director: Transport (Ref. S135/2011)
Salary: R685 200 per annum (all-inclusive remuneration package) • Pretoria

Purpose: To strategically monitor and manage public finances with respect to the National Departments of Transport, Communications, Energy and Human Settlements.

Requriements: • Director: * Appropriate postgraduate degree in Public Finance/Economic Policy or a sector-related technical field * Minimum of 5 years’ relevant working experience with specific knowledge of the Transport/Energy and Communications sectors • Senior Budget Analyst: * Postgraduate degree in Economics/Public Finance or a sector-related technical field * Minimum of 3 years’ experience in policy, budgets or financial management • Sound understanding of budgets and financial management • Sound knowledge of economic and fiscal policy, Government budget processes and financial analysis • Demonstrated knowledge of Transport/Energy and Communications/Housing policy • Sound knowledge of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) and Division of Revenue Act (DoRA) • Good interpersonal skills • Ability to analyse complex information and large datasets • Good knowledge of corporate governance • High level of computer literacy with sound knowledge of the MS Office suite (especially Word and Excel) and Internet-based research.

Key outputs: • Advise on policy and financial-related matters to the Ministry of Finance and other stakeholders • Provide policy development in the sectors to enhance service delivery and the attainment of Government outcomes and outputs • Advise on the implementation and interpretation of the Treasury Regulations and monitoring in this regard • Offer a sound financial management methodology with the implementation and progress of the Public Finance Management Act • Provide written and oral assessment of budgets, expenditure trends and service delivery outputs • Generate reports on the status of client departments for Parliament and Ministry of Finance • Liaise with departments and advise on processes and interact with public entities • Advise client departments on the annual budget process, sectoral expenditure review and the compilation and functioning of inter-departmental committees • Enhance the management and governance of public entities reporting to the departments • Analyse infrastructure investments proposals initiated by departments and their related public entities • Provide advice and support to clients with the preparation of budget inputs and documentation • Develop credible and appropriate budget and financial management guidelines • Analyse departmental budget submissions, budgets and contributions to budget documentation, eg Medium-term Budget Policy Statement, Budget Review, Estimates of National Expenditure and other relevant documentation • Participate in the budget processes, including roll-over requests, adjustment estimates, budget structures and other expenditure structures.

Closing date: 31 October 2011 at 12:00

The National Treasury is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from women and the disabled in particular. Our buildings are accessible to disabled persons.

Applications should be accompanied by a completed Z83 Form, comprehensive CV and originally certified copies of qualifications and ID.

No late applications will be accepted.

Qualification and SA citizenship checks will be conducted on all short-listed candidates and, where applicable, additional checks will be conducted. It is the applicant’s responsibility to have foreign qualifications evaluated by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA). If you have not received feedback from the National Treasury within 1 month of the closing date, please regard your application as unsuccessful.