Municipal Administrator
The Focus Group
- R100 - R800 per month
- Permanent Intermediate position
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East London
- Posted 04 Feb 2026 by The Focus Group
- Expires in 34 days
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Job 2632443
About the position
ROLE OVERVIEW:
Our client is looking for a Municipal Administrator that 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
- Sourcing Accounts from the respective supply authority
- Dealing with Queries (tenant and Council related)
- Logging calls for outages and services
- Opening of new accounts with Council
- Reconciliations
- Preparing accounts for timely payment
- Data Capturing
- Preparing property packs for new acquisitions
- Processing transactions and maintaining accurate financial records
- Record Keeping
- Assist with financial analysis and reporting as needed
- Supplier Reconciliations
Verification and Optimization
- Tariff checking and verification
- Meter reading, checking and verification
REQUIREMENTS
- Property industry and municipal accounts experience essential
- Creditors/Account reconciliations and payments experience essential
- Intermediate Excel
- Valid Drivers License
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
- Planning and organizing
- Assertive and energetic person
- Ability to adapt to change
- Deadline-driven, with a sense of urgency/result-orientation
- Time management
- Ability to work under pressure
- Utility Management
- Office, retail and Industrial experience
Desired Skills:
- Billing
- Creditors
- Data Capturing
- Financial Recording
- Property Management
- Reconciliation
- Reporting
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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