Senior Specialist: Tax Avoidance and Reportable Arrangements (TARA) at The South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Job Purpose

• To examine the legislative, taxpayer base and economic environments in order to determine likely forms of future tax avoidance schemes and put in place measures to counter these. 

Education and Experience

• Honours / Postgraduate Diploma (NQF 8) in Accounting, Tax Audit, Tax law or Banking AND 10-12 years' experience in a similar environment, of which 3-4 years on a specialist level.

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Honours /Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting, Tax Audit, Tax law, or Banking (NQF 8) AND 10-12 years' experience in a similar environment, of which 3-4 years on a specialist level OR
• Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Accounting/ Tax Audit/ Tax law /Banking AND 12 - 15 years related experience.

Minimum Functional Requirements

• Significant experience in intelligence, business insight, risk, audit or Law and complex tax arrangements and schemes.

Job Outputs:

Process

• 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.
• 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 onboarding of new thinking.
• Integrate business information, compare, analyse & produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies & inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
• 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

• Manage and or advise on the translation and application of policy in a specific functional area.
• Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies in own practice areas to identify and manage risk exposure liability.

 People

• Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.
• Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership in area of expertise.

Finance

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

Client

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

Behavioural competencies

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

Technical competencies

• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Reporting
• Tax Compliance Auditing
• Business Knowledge
• Creative and Innovative Thinking
• Efficiency improvement
• Legal Advisory and Interpretation
• Legal Knowledge and knowledge of ethics
• Legal Compliance
• Policy Analysis

Compliance Competency

• GOC Confidential