Limpopo Gambling Board Annual Report

5.2 Programme 2: Finance

The purpose of this programme is to provide financial and administrative support to all (04) programmes.

This programme is divided into 3 sub-programmes as follows:

Chief Financial Officer: The purpose of this sub-programme is to ensure efficient and effective utilisation of resources through strategic prioritisation.

Human Resources Management: The purpose of this sub-programme is to ensure a well governed and capable organisation.

Supply Chain Management: The purpose of this sub-programme is to ensure compliance with procurement prescripts.

The institutional outcomes that programme 2 contributes towards:

Outcome 1: A sustainable, efficient, and effective organisation

Outcomes, outputs, output indicators, targets and actual achievements The Entity strives to achieve clean administration through programme 2 with regards to financial management led by the Acting Chief Financial Officer. In the same breath, the programme strives for employment and retaining a competent workforce. The targets set within the programme aims to achieve the objective of the programme driven through Business Units being Finance, Supply Chain Management and Human Resource Management. Within the Finance Business unit, the Entity strives for continued clean administration and effective and efficient allocation of resources, which is aligned to the strategy of the Entity. The Supply Chain Management Unit looks at mainly ensuring compliance with the various Supply Chain Management prescripts as it supports the core Business Units in implementation of the Entity’s strategy through the procurement of goods and services. Throughout the financial year, the Human Resource Management Unit has ensured that the employees of the Entity are still able to carry out the mandate of the Entity amidst the pandemic. Through the support of the OHS committee, the Human Resource Management Unit has ensured adequate compliance with the set-out regulations of the Department of Labour to ensure that the employees of the Entity remain productive and efficient in their individual work responsibilities. The programme deals mainly with support of the Core Business Units and the targets set under the programme are internal in nature. The Entity is, therefore, not affected by any other external factors in the current year. The Finance Business Unit has set out to continue to maintain the unqualified audit opinion for the year under review, and the Unit was able to achieve the set target by receiving an unqualified audit opinion with no findings with the 2020/21 financial year audit. The Supply Chain Management Unit had set out to achieve the core mandates of the Province when it comes to supporting SMMEs in the Province by ensuring that these are paid timeously within 30 days as set out by the prescripts. The Supply Chain Business Unit has achieved the set target for the financial year under review and ensured that all suppliers of the Entity are paid within the prescribed 30 days.

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