Senior State Accountant: Expenditure Analysis and Management reporting

About

The Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness is a department of the Government of the Western Cape, responsible for providing public healthcare to the population of the Western Cape province of South Africa.

Experience

• Appropriate experience in data analysis, financial administration and/or costing.
• Appropriate experience in using database management tools like Azure, SQL Server and Power Query will be advantageous.
• Appropriate experience in utilizing Microsoft Excel.

Minimum Educational Qualification

• Appropriate three-year National Diploma or Degree in a financial field or data analytics.

Duties

• Perform data exploration, cleaning and transformation to ensure high-quality datasets for financial and operational analysis.
• Identify and analyze financial and budgetary risks through the review of expenditure and operational data.
• Prepare cost estimates, financial assessments and supporting documentation to inform planning and budgeting processes.
• Develop and monitor service volume and expenditure indicators to assess their impact on resource utilisation and expenditure efficiency.
• Develop and maintain financial reporting models and tools to support routine financial monitoring and forecasting.
• Extract, validate and consolidate data from multiple financial and operational systems for reporting purposes.
• Maintain and update large financial datasets and databases to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
• Monitor and support cash flow management and expenditure control for specific programmes or business units.
• Provide technical support and guidance to sectors/institutions on projection te