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

Job Purpose

• To align and provide expert and specialist advice on compliance risk strategies in order to achieve overall organizational business objectives.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Honours or Postgraduate Diploma (NQF 8( in Accounting, Auditing or Taxation AND a minimum of 10 years' experience in a Risk Profiling, Audit, Tax Advisory or Consulting environment, of which 3-4 years are on a specialist level.

ALTERNATE:

• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Accounting, Auditing or Taxation AND a minimum of 12 years’ experience in a Risk Profiling, Audit, Tax Advisory or Consulting environment, of which 3-4 years are on a specialist level.

Minimum Functional Requirements

• Experience in working with High-Net-Worth indviduals in a Tax Advisory or Consulting capacity and or working on complex tax structuring matters.

Job Outputs:

Process

• Ensure timeous communication on progress and challenges in achieving divisional and business unit goals to all relevant stakeholders.
• Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to 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

• 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
• Accountability
• Analytical thinking
• Conceptual Ability
• External Awareness
• Trust
• Respect
• Honesty and Integrity
• Attention to detail
• Building Sustainability
• Commitment to Continuous Learning
• Organisational Awareness
• Problem Solving and Analysis
• Developing Others
• Expertise in Context

Technical competencies

• Risk Awareness
• Risk Knowledge
• Efficiency Improvement
• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Creative and Innovative Thinking
• Reporting
• Policy Analysis
• Business Knowledge

Compliance Competency

• Security Clearance: Top secret