Elements and Performance Criteria
- Contribute to financial bids and estimates
- Identify organisational initiatives requiring the preparation of bids and estimates in accordance with resource constraints and organisational needs.
- Substantiate information for bids and/or estimates, ensuring it contains logical assumptions and takes account of strategic plans, government policies and priorities.
- Prepare information for bids and/or estimates including a timeframe to meet critical submission dates.
- Prepare documentation to support bids and/or estimates in accordance with budget guidelines.
- Allocate funds
- Approve budgets and allocate financial resources.
- Make allocations and take account of any statutory requirements or constraints.
- Maintain audit trails to ensure tracking and to identify variances between agreed and actual allocations.
- Monitor financial allocation against organisational objectives and priorities and take corrective action as required.
- Manage budgets
- Undertake budget management that meets the financial accountability requirements of the organisation.
- Monitor expenses against budget and authorise in accordance with financial delegation and organisational financial controls.
- Obtain and provide financial reports.
- Monitor expenses through analysis of financial information and resolve or refer problems in accordance with financial delegation.
- Align expenditure with service delivery expectations.
- Negotiate changes to the budget to account for potential under-spending, delays in service delivery, overruns and unneeded line items.
- Report on financial activities
- Contribute to financial bids and estimates
- Identify organisational initiatives requiring the preparation of bids and estimates in accordance with resource constraints and organisational needs.
- Substantiate information for bids and/or estimates, ensuring it contains logical assumptions and takes account of strategic plans, government policies and priorities.
- Prepare information for bids and/or estimates including a timeframe to meet critical submission dates.
- Prepare documentation to support bids and/or estimates in accordance with budget guidelines.
- Allocate funds
- Approve budgets and allocate financial resources.
- Make allocations and take account of any statutory requirements or constraints.
- Maintain audit trails to ensure tracking and to identify variances between agreed and actual allocations.
- Monitor financial allocation against organisational objectives and priorities and take corrective action as required.
- Manage budgets
- Undertake budget management that meets the financial accountability requirements of the organisation.
- Monitor expenses against budget and authorise in accordance with financial delegation and organisational financial controls.
- Obtain and provide financial reports.
- Monitor expenses through analysis of financial information and resolve or refer problems in accordance with financial delegation.
- Align expenditure with service delivery expectations.
- Negotiate changes to the budget to account for potential under-spending, delays in service delivery, overruns and unneeded line items.
- Report on financial activities