About the position
Background:
- Wits Health Consortium (Pty) Limited ("WHC") is a wholly-owned Company of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) under its Faculty of Health Sciences
- WHC provides Faculty with a legal framework within which to operate the research and other activities necessary to support its academic objectives
- In addition, WHC offers a range of products and services to Academics
Main purpose of the job:
- To lead the provision of effective operational support services to all staff and sites, specifically in the areas of financial management and organizational administration, e.g., procurement, supplier management
Location:
- Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Soweto
Key performance areas:
- Ensure adherence to financial policies and procedures
- Load approved budgets for all new projects on Sage X3
- Request project setups on the WHC procure to pay system
- Ensure that relevant bank accounts are open
- Ensure that the bank and project account details are shared with relevant stakeholders before the project commencement date
- Provide financial advice to Divisions and sites
- Compile accurate and comprehensive financial and donor reports
- Maintain the online dashboard with all contracts and reports for all accounts monthly
- Adjust accounting records as require
- Submit monthly invoices to the Debtors department as part of the month-end process
- Ensure expenditures are accurate and allocated to the correct account
- Ensure the timely submission of financial documentation by sub-awardees in compliance with donor rules and regulations
- Capture accounting entries in relation to the subaward to the bookkeeper as part of the month-end processes
- Process the month-end income and man fee recognition within the timeline
- Ensure all P2Ps are compliant and approved daily
- Adhere to monthly deadlines and inform management of any deviations
- Ensure all queries are attended to and resolved within the required timelines
- Ensure that Division files are always audit-ready
- Train site staff on all financial requirements
Required minimum education and training:
- BCom Accounting or equivalent
Required minimum work experience:
- Minimum of 3 years’ finance reporting experience in a healthcare or donor-funded environment
Desirable additional education, work experience and personal abilities:
- Experience working in a donor funded organization or NGO
- Excellent communication skills (both written and oral)
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other staff, managers, auditors, suppliers, and Donors
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Excel and accounting packages
- Must have a dynamic and compatibility personality
- Ability to work in a high-pressure environment in which year-round donor-specific audits are conducted by internal and external auditors
- The environment may at times be busy and need excellent management skills and attention to details
- Ability to apply knowledge of the organisational systems, structures, policies and procedures to achieve results
- Self-motivated, able to work independently and work as part of a multidisciplinary team
TO APPLY:
- Only if you meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV
- Please Apply Online and complete your registration via our website to enable and protect you as a candidate, and to accept the new POPIA terms and conditions
- This will then create your permanent profile with which you can apply for all jobs as advertised by AJ PERSONNEL
- However, you may remove your profile from AJ PERSONNEL when you are no longer in the job market
- Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position
- Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates
- Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful
- Closing date: 21 May 2026
- Note: No CV will be accepted after the closing date
Please note:
- WHC, in accordance with its Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto
- AJ Personnel is only responsible for advertising and the response handling on behalf of their client Wits Health Consortium
- AJ Personnel does not have any salary or other information regarding the position
Desired Skills:
- Financial Management
- Administration
- Reporting
- Organisation Skills
- Communication Skills
- Grant Accountant
- Bcom
Employer & Job Benefits:
- Medical Aid and Pension Fund
