Specialist: Case Selection (Transfer Pricing) at The South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Job Purpose

• To provide expertise, advice and support by conducting, analysing and recommending compliance interventions in Transfer Pricing for Large Business & International in order to continuously enhance service delivery and voluntary compliance. 
• The incumbent must be well versed in drafting, interpreting and implementing transfer pricing policies, conducting functional analyses and have experience in understanding the tax touch points that exist from a transfer pricing perspective throughout the value chains of businesses in varying industries.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) AND 8-10 years’ experience working with Transfer Pricing of which 3-4 years at Operational (Transfer Pricing) specialist level/ senior consultant, associate manager or manager level.

OR

• Senior Certificate with 15 years’ experience in Transfer Pricing at a specialized or senior operational level.

Job Outputs:

Process

• Apply functional area policies in order to enhance unit's ability to advise business in complex field and or professional discipline.
• Understand the system and the underlying principles supporting the overall business process.
• Provide specialist advice and guidance specific to the complex field and or professional discipline of Transfer Pricing.
• Undertake information gathering, research and analyse data within broad guidelines to produce accurate plans & or recommendations for business issues relating to non-compliance and harmful tax practices.
• Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and associated area's practices.
• Contribute to the optimum utilisation of organizational resources.
• Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practice.
• Integrate business information, compare, analyse & produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies & inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
• Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes & systems across an internal value chain.
• Plan for value-added, continuous practice & system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence.
• Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives and best practice implementation solutions.
• Translate top-down policy in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders.
• Recommend changes to optimise processes.

Governance

• Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure and 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 controls, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.

Client

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

Behavioural competencies

• Honesty and Integrity 
• Trust
• Respect
• Problem solving and analyses
• Fairness and Transparency
• Analytical Thinking
• Accountability
• Conceptual Ability
• Relationship Management and Networking
• Attention to Detail
• Commitment to Continuous Learning
• Organisational Awareness
• Building Sustainability
• Grade of Clearance: Confidential

Technical competencies

• Business Knowledge
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Efficiency improvement
• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Problem Analysis and Judgement
• Reporting
• Risk Awareness
• Risk Knowledge
• Governance, Ethics and Values

Compliance Competency

• GOC Confidential