Senior Specialist: Audit at The South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Job Purpose

• To provide expert advise and guidance and/or execute highly complex and highly specialised audits for High Wealth Individuals.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Relevant Honours / Postgraduate Diploma in Tax, Accounting, Auditing (NQF 8) AND 10-12 years' experience in a Tax and audit environment, of which 3-4 years ideally at specialist level, 
• OR 
• Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma in Tax, Accounting, Auditing (NQF 7) AND 12 - 15 years experience in a Tax and audit environment, of which 3-4 years ideally at specialist level.

Minimum Functional Requirements

• CA(SA), CFA, Masters in Tax, MCom, H Dip(tax) with extensive experience in a specialist audit/legal environment.

Job Outputs: 
Process

•  Plan, conduct and manage highly complex risk-based audits to ensure compliance with relevant acts.
•  Identify tax gaps and evasion schemes involving complex matters and suggest potential solutions to minimize tax risks.
•  Manage quality in planning, execution and finalisation of audits.
•  Conduct research into local & international practices & trends in order to identify best practice & the most practical business solutions & options.
•  Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to tax law, specialist systems, procedures, policies and practices.
•  Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
•  Develop multiple practices in alignment with operational policy and procedural frameworks, supporting tactical development and excellence.
•  Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
•  Influence and communicate across business areas impacted by practice area to minimise resistance and ensure on-boarding of new thinking.
•  Integrate business information, compare, analyse & produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies & inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
•  Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy development and optimisation of practises, processes & systems across an internal value chain.
•  Plan for value-added, continuous multiple practice and system improvement optimisation to deliver on objectives and to enhance tactical excellence.
•  Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; developing best practice solutions.
•  Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice areas and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
•  Translate top down policy, apply modification in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders

Governance

•  Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies in own practice areas to identify and manage risk exposure liability.

People

•  Enable a culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared between team members.
•  Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership in area of expertise
•  Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.

Finance

•  Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.

Client

•  Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
•  Develop & ensure implementation of own practices to build delivery excellence, encouraging others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.
•  Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.

Behavioural competencies

•  Fairness and Transparency
•  Analytical Thinking
•  Accountability
•  Conceptual Ability
•  Information Seeking
•  Problem Solving and Analysis
•  Honesty and Integrity
•  Trust
•  Respect
•  Honesty and Integrity
•  Attention to Detail
•  Commitment to Continuous Learning
•  Organisational Awareness
•  Building Sustainability

Technical competencies

•  Functional Policies and Procedures
•  Reporting
•  Operational Audit
•  Business Knowledge
•  Creative and Innovative Thinking
•  Efficiency improvement
•  Financial Accounting
•  Policy analysis
•  Audit Methodology
•  Quality Orientation

Compliance Competency

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