West Rand District Municipality: Finance Management Internship Programme 2024

The West Rand District Municipality, with its seat authority in Randfontein, invites suitably qualified and unemployed candidates to apply for the 2024 Finance Management Internship Programme.

The intern will sign both an employment contract and an internship agreement. The purpose of the agreement is to ensure commitment to the programme which require, amongst other, full participation in the educational and workplace assignments and observance of policies and procedures of the municipality. The candidate must be between the ages of 21 and 35.

Responsibilities:

• Carry out instructions to support the preparation of budgets and financial statements by accessing system information,
• performing calculations and adjustments to entries,
• reconciling and consolidating accounting transactional information,
• preparing and submitting schedules and attending to the collation of general information for specific reporting purposes in order to ensure timeliness and requirements for presenting information is conformed with.
• Checking expenditure and income transactional information reflected on ledger reports and, extracting and referring queries for the attention of the immediate superior.
• Updating specific fields of the consolidated budget information system and applying formulae to calculate expenditure and income trends.
• Reconciling and consolidating transactional information, cross checking totals and entries and submitting for verification.
• Processing adjustments or journals and applying procedures in respect of balancing income and expenditure ledgers.

Requirements

• A three-year Bachelor's Degree or National Diploma with majors in:

1. Accounting,
2. Economics,
3. Finance,
4. Risk Management
5. Auditing,

• Ability to manage a variety of tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Computer literacy, especially Excel.