Municipal Administrator
The Focus Group
- R10,000 - R15,000 per month
- Permanent Junior position
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East London
- Posted 21 Jun 2025 by The Focus Group
- Expires in 33 days
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Job 2614549
About the position
The Municipal Administrator will be responsible to assist with council billing, reporting, and risk management. Utilities include but are not limited to Water, Electricity, Sewer, Effluent, refuse. Alternative Energy Solutions, Back-up Electricity, Gas, and/or other utilities that may be used.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Utility management
- Manage the relationship between Landlord/ Service Providers/Tenants to optimize output.
- Sourcing Accounts from the respective supply authority
- Assist in dealing with Queries (tenant and Council related), as well as opening of new accounts with Council
- Regular Reporting and risk management
- Utility accounting and administration functions
- Provide support to inland team and functions
Verification and Optimization
Assist with utility accounting and administration function to ensure that the accounting on both the cost and recoveries of utilities are accurate per billing cycle, both in respect of:
- vetting and approving reports on all related municipal bills
- tariff checking and verification
Energy Assessments
- Ensure buildings are on most beneficial rates.
- Assessments/feasibility studies and reporting
Risk Management
- Ensures compliance with relevant Acts and bylaws
- Assist manager with the processes and systems within the area of accountability to ensure compliance and minimize the business risk
REQUIREMENTS
- Property industry and municipal accounts experience essential
- Creditors/Account reconciliations and payments experience essential
- Intermediate Excel
- Valid Drivers Licence
- Experience in dealing with council queries will be advantageous
- Pastel/SAGE ERP 300 knowledge will be advantageous.
SKILLS
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Friendly, helpful and service-orientated
- Analytical / accurate / attention to detail
- Numbers orientated
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Conflict management skills
- Planning and organizing
- Assertive and energetic person
- Ability to adapt to change
- Achievement oriented
- Deadline-driven, with a sense of urgency/result-orientation
- Time management
- Ability to work under pressure
Desired Skills:
- Asset Management
- Billing
- Commercial Properties
- Land Use Planning
- Property Administration
- Property Brokering
- Real Estate
The Focus Group
About the agency
THE FOCUS GROUP was formed in 1989 and has offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. We are a full service Human Resource Consulting Company, encompassing Black Empowerment joint venture partner Focus Kamoso, and offering a comprehensive range of integrated recruitment, assessment, employee relations, training and development, HR, employee benefit and payroll management services to a wide range of South African, African and international business organisations.
Our commitment is to enter into a partnership with you, the Client, which adds value to your business and profit to your bottom line, by tailoring solutions that assist you to
• Source, assess and select the best possible human resources.
• Design and implement competency based training programmes, which ensure that your employees are capable of delivering the service excellence that your clients demand, and the competitive edge which you seek to maintain.
• Create a business environment in which you manage change to your advantage and an organisational climate that allows your team to perform to its maximum potential.
• Design employee benefit and remuneration structures which ensure that your people take ownership of your business and which protect you against losing your most valuable resource to your competition.
• Implement an employee relations framework that promotes workplace harmony and minimises the occurrence of disruptive legal disputes.
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