Website Bergrivier Municipality
Bergrivier Municipality is a local municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It governs the towns of Piketberg, Velddrif and Porterville, as well as the surrounding villages and rural areas.
Qualifications:
- Grade 12 with Accounting as subject;
Experience:
- Two (2) – Five (5) years’ relevant experience
Requirements:
- Code B drivers licence
- Computer literacy (MS Office Applications)
- Proficiency in at least two (2) of the official languages of the Western Cape (Afrikaans/English/isiXhosa – Speak, Read, Write)
- Good supervision, human relations, interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to give attention to detail
- High level of responsibility
- Must work overtime when required
- Incumbent must be physical fit
- Must perform duties in any area of the Municipality when required
Job purpose:
- Performs specific administrative and accounting procedures against laid down procedural instructions/ guidelines ∙
- Handling all debtors enquiries regarding their service accounts ∙
- Completion of forms for consumers ∙
- Issuing of duplicate statements ∙
- Perform relief cashier duties when required.
Key Performance Areas:
- Help consumers to complete connection and disconnection forms correctly ∙
- Help consumers to correctly complete debtor related forms like for example applications for new water/electricity connection, change of meters from conventional electricity to prepaid , rebates, change of postal address ∙
- Attend to the issuing of duplicate accounts for consumers ∙
- Deal with enquiries related to debtor accounts ∙
- Receive and receipt payments ∙
- Attend to the issuing and updating of journals ∙
- Responsible to part take in the Municipality’s Performance
- Management and Development System.
Core Professional Competencies
- Written Communication
- Oral Communication
- Attention to detail
- Influencing
- Ethics & professionalism
- Organisational awareness
- Problem solving
- Planning & organising
- Business processes
- Use of technology
- Data processing & analysis
- Interpersonal relationships
- Communication
- Service delivery orientation
- Client orientation & customer focus
- Action orientation
- Resilience
- Change readiness
- Cognitive ability
- Learning orientation
- Impact & influence
- Team orientation
- Direction setting
- Coaching & mentoring