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Senior Budget Analyst: Transport

Accelerate your career in this progressive and dynamic environment, whilst contributing to the growth of our country.

Public Finance
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Senior Budget Analyst: Transport

(Ref. S050/2012)

Salary: R434 505 per annum (all-inclusive)

Purpose: To provide technical and strategic support and analysis as well as monitor and manage public finances in respect to the National Departments of Communications and Transport.

Key outputs:

  • Advise on policy- and financial-related matters to the Ministry of Finance and other stakeholders
  • Support policy development in the sectors to enhance service delivery and the attainment of Government outcomes and outputs
  • Advise on implementation and interpretation of the treasury regulations and monitoring in this regard
  • Offer a sound financial management methodology to ensure compliance with 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, sectorial 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.

Requirements:

  • A postgraduate degree in Economics/Public Finance or a sector-related technical field
  • A minimum of 3 years’ experience in policy, budgets or financial management
  • A sound understanding of budgets and financial management
  • Sound knowledge of economic and fiscal policy, Government budget processes and financial analysis
  • Demonstrated knowledge of Transport and Communications policy
  • Sound knowledge of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) and Division of Revenue Act (DoRA)
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • The ability to analyse complex information and large datasets
  • ood knowledge of corporate governance
  • A high level of computer literacy with sound knowledge of the MS Office suite (especially Word and Excel) and Internet-based research.

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.

Please forward your application, quoting the relevant reference number and the name of the publication in which you saw this advertisement, to the Recruitment Administrator: National Treasury, Private Bag X115, Pretoria 0001 or e-mail: recruit.pf@treasury.gov.za

Closing date: 30 April 2012 at 12:00. No late applications will be accepted.

Qualifications and security screening 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.