Vacant Jobs at The South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Job Purpose

• To conduct standard limited scope audits or verification on a risk profile basis to ensure compliance.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma in Finance/ Accounting/Tax/Audit (NQF7) AND 5-7 years' Tax Audit experience, of which 2-3 years at functional Audit level.

ALTERNATE

• Senior Certificate (NQF4) AND 10 years’ experience in Tax Audits

Minimum Functional Requirements

Job Outputs:

Process

• Be informed on related acts, legislation and regulations that might impact on own work.
• Be observant and engage on possible violations of regulation, policies, SOPs and standards of conduct and escalate where necessary.
• Conduct standard (limited scope) audits to ensure compliance with the relevant acts.
• Plan and organise own work tasks within are of work.
• Prepare and present submissions to interest and penalty committee.
• Take accountability for delivery of contracted work outputs within agreed parameters, quality standards and client service targets.
• Accumulate information and provide reports with recommendations applicable to area of specialisation.
• Apply practical and applied knowledge and act authoritatively on methods, systems and procedures to identify trends and potential risks.
• Communication of situational interpretation and judgement of work outputs and queries in area of specialisation.
• Correctly apply applicable legislation, including amongst other policies, procedures, and SOPs in the delivery of work outputs.
• Effectively plan and schedule own activities to continuously improve quality and service delivery in area of specialisation.
• Execute process and procedural change, implement the change and provide guidelines and support related to new requirements because of the change.
• Use practical and applied knowledge and situational judgement to consider policy implications and to arrive at decisions/conclusions.

Governance

• Comply to set governance and compliance procedures and processes related to an area of specialisation and continuously identify and escalate risks.

People

• Develop productive working relationships with team members, Ops manager and key role players in the business to support contracted work outputs.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers and team members to achieve predefined objectives.

Finance

• Adhere to organisational policies and procedures to ensure cost effectiveness and reduction of financial costs.

Client

• Contribute to a culture of service excellence, which builds positive relationships and provides opportunity for feedback and exceptional service
• Ensure own understanding and adherence to customer service delivery and provide specialist support to meet or exceed customer expectations

Behavioural competencies

• Fairness and Transparency
• Analytical thinking
• Accountability
• Conceptual ability
• Organisational awareness
• Trust
• Respect
• Attention to detail
• Commitment to continuous learning
• Building Sustainability
• Honesty and Integrity
• Teamwork

Technical competencies

• Reporting
• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Financial Accounting
• Operational Audit
• Business Knowledge
• Efficiency improvement

Compliance Competency

• Security Clearance: GOC Confidential

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Job Purpose

• To be responsible for the co-ordination, configuration programming, installation, and management of system hardware and software architectures, and related client services within the organisation.
• Implementing system architectures and for the identification and resolution of hardware and software technical problems and malfunctions related to the network and other related servers with the potential to affect the successful execution of business transactions and ensuring a stable performance environment for the business processing system. 
• Work in both Production and non-Production environments.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Information Technology AND 5-7 years' experience in a similar environment, of which 2-3 years ideally at functional specialist level

ALTERNATIVE

• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 10 years related experience

Minimum Functional Requirements

• z/OS Operating System and its subsystems
• HCD
• TCP/IP
• SMP/E
• RMF
• CICS
• MQ

Installing and configuring Third Party Program Products

• BMC Control Products

Storage Management

• DFSMS/DFSMShsm

Job Outputs:

Process

• Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making and the identification of improvement opportunities.
• Apply practical and applied knowledge and act authoritatively on methods, systems and procedures to identify trends and potential risks.
• Communication of situational interpretation and judgement of work outputs and
• Correctly apply policies, practices, standards, procedures and legislation in the delivery of work outputs.
• Draw on own knowledge and experience to diagnose symptoms, causes and possible effects to solve emerging problems.
• To be responsible for the configuring, debugging and supporting multiple infrastructure platforms and software stacks.
• Create and maintain documentation as it relates to system configuration, mapping, processes, and service records.
• Developing, maintaining and supporting technical infrastructure, hardware and system software components and document it accordingly.
• Liaise with stakeholders for problem resolution.
• Ensure system connectivity of all servers, shared software, groupware, and other applications.
• Integrate servers and their associated software into enterprise systems/solutions.
• Provide orientation and training to end users for all modified and new systems and mentoring of peers and staff.

Governance

• Implement and provide input into the development of governance, compliance, integrity and ethics processes within area of specialisation

People

• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers and team members to achieve predefined objectives.
• Search for, integrate and share new knowledge attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.

Finance

• Adhere to organisational policies and procedures to ensure cost effectiveness and reduction of financial costs.

Client

• Contribute to a culture of service excellence, which builds positive relationships and provides opportunity for feedback and exceptional service.
• Provide authoritative, specialist services, expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders

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Job Purpose

• To be responsible for the co-ordination, configuration programming, installation, and management of system hardware and software architectures, and related client services within the organisation.
• Implementing system architectures and for the identification and resolution of hardware and software technical problems and malfunctions related to the network and other related servers with the potential to affect the successful execution of business transactions and ensuring a stable performance environment for the business processing system. 
• Work in both Production and non-Production environments.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Information Technology AND 5-7 years' experience in a similar environment, of which 2-3 years ideally at functional specialist level

ALTERNATIVE

• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 10 years related experience

Minimum Functional Requirements

• SuSE Linux Certified Professional or Linux Professional Certified Level 2 and SuSE Enterprise Linux Version 10+
• Redhat Certified Technician and Redhat Linux Systems Version 7+
• Modern Docker
• OpenShift
• Kurbenetes
• Cloud technologies

Job Outputs:

Process

• Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making and the identification of improvement opportunities.
• Apply practical and applied knowledge and act authoritatively on methods, systems and procedures to identify trends and potential risks.
• Communication of situational interpretation and judgement of work outputs and
• Correctly apply policies, practices, standards, procedures and legislation in the delivery of work outputs.
• Draw on own knowledge and experience to diagnose symptoms, causes and possible effects in order to solve emerging problems.
• To be responsible for the configuring, debugging and supporting multiple infrastructure platforms and software stacks.
• Create and maintain documentation as it relates to system configuration, mapping, processes, and service records.
• Developing, maintaining and supporting technical infrastructure, hardware and system software components and document it accordingly.
• Liaise with stakeholders for problem resolution.
• Ensure system connectivity of all servers, shared software, groupware, and other applications.
• Integrate servers and their associated software into enterprise systems/solutions.
• Provide orientation and training to end users for all modified and new systems and mentoring of peers and staff.

Governance

• Implement and provide input into the development of governance, compliance, integrity and ethics processes within area of specialisation

People

• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers and team members to achieve predefined objectives.
• Search for, integrate and share new knowledge attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.

Finance

• Adhere to organisational policies and procedures to ensure cost effectiveness and reduction of financial costs.

Client

• Contribute to a culture of service excellence, which builds positive relationships and provides opportunity for feedback and exceptional service.
• Provide authoritative, specialist services, expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders

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Job Purpose

• To provide expertise, advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics, by ensuring sustainability of SARS software, systems and technologies, enabling a holistic business solution that support and sustain the business capability with minimal business risk, integrate and align architectures within the Enterprise Architecture, in order to enable tactical translation and operational implementation

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) AND 8-10 years' experience in at least two of the following: data collection, development, technical support,  or database administration.  5 years’ experience with IBM Infosphere Data Replication technologies like Q-Replication, IBM Data Replication (CDC) or SQL Replication and Unix fundamentals is essential. Experience in Data Warehouse or IBM DB2 Warehouse will be an added advantage. .

OR

• Relevant IT Qualification / Certification, as specified in Min Functional requirements, where applicable and 8-10 years’ experience in a similar environment

ALTERNATIVE #

• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years related experience in EDW

Job Outputs:

Process

• Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and associated area's practice.
• Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
• Develop a single practice area in alignment with operational activity and procedural frameworks and ensure tactical implementation.
• Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
• 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; 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, systems, practice area and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
• Ensure proper project planning and execution as well as overall change control.
• Provide support to projects by applying the required specialised skills in terms of infrastructure, architecture, data, design, services, processes, monitoring and patterns.
• Troubleshoot and methodically identify research and resolve complex issues in the IT environment.
• Design, plan and implement all the software, integration, design and development activities that relate to the portfolio of business integration in conjunction with all relevant stakeholders.
• Introduce best practises and influence the divisions to change and adopt accordingly.
• Contribute to IT business planning with regards to interface applications.

Governance

• Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area 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 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.

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Job Purpose

• To support clients with expert requirement analysis and systems configuration, implementation, and support of various SAP modules. This role uses consulting skills, business knowledge, and SAP solution experience to effectively integrate SAP technology into the client’s business environment in order to achieve client expected business results.

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) Fields of study: Information Tech, Computer Science, B‐Com, Finance, Management and Engineering. AND a minimum 8 years’ experience and knowledge of SAP Basis.

OR

• Diploma (NQF 6) Fields of study: Information Tech, Computer Science, B‐Com, Finance, Management and Engineering AND at least 10 years' experience in an SAP environment.

#Alternative

• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 plus years related experience in an SAP environment

Minimum Job Requirements

• Solid SAP Basis experience across different SAP Modules
• Strong SAP HANA and ASE database administration skills
• At least 3 full implementations or upgrades of SAP ECC or S/4HANA environments
• SAP Basis on HANA certification is an advantage
• SAP RISE or Public Cloud (e.g. SuccessFactors, ARIBA) is an advantage

Job Outputs:

• Perform complex tasks and guidance during implementation, maintenance and support of various SAP modules to enhance business functionality and overall performance, while maintaining customer satisfaction.
• Close communication with functional teams /designers, understand the requirements from provided functional designs and transform these requirements into the technical designs
• Analyse and Review requirements , perform configuration and testing in various SAP Modules, such as Finance, Human Resources, Procurement, Security, Revenue Management, Governance and Application Lifecycle Management, Cloud Solutions, etc.
• Perform in depth analysis of the current business processes and scenarios of the client then recommend or configure solutions to meet the client’s needs
• Responsible for successful implementation of SAP, providing in depth functional knowledge, and advice on SAP products to clients
• Provide expert knowledge of industry best practices and recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, policies and procedures, and execute the implementation of change and innovation initiated by the organisation.
• Acts as liaison with client for troubleshooting: investigate, analyse, and solve critical SAP functional and application problems and map client business requirements, processes and objectives; develop necessary product modifications to satisfy clients' needs.
• Maintain a working knowledge of the organization and adheres to all organizational standards
• Plan maintenance of current system solutions for various SAP Modules, such as Finance, Human Resources, Procurement, Security, Revenue Management, Governance and Application Lifecycle Management, Cloud Solutions, etc.
• Contribute to high productivity and motivation of working team with the use of your communication skills and cooperation; reach and realize project aims and outputs
• Review documentation for approval of all work tasks (definition) based on BRS and ensure adherence to SAP Support SDLC
• Incident Resolution for Severity 1 and 2 issues and assist with Business escalations for issues raised
• Plan, Design work classes and plan production release deployments
• Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and associated area's practice.
• Develop a single practice area in alignment with operational activity and procedural frameworks and ensure tactical implementation.
• Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
• 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; best practice implementation solutions.
• Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice area and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
• Translate top-down policy in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders

Governance

• Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area 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 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.
• Build professional relationships with clients, management and team members to ensure delivery of proposed solutions, support for development of business possibilities and for personal development

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Job Purpose

• SARS is looking for a highly skilled and detail-oriented Specialist Data Analyst to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for analysing data, generating insights, and developing data-driven strategies to improve business performance. 
• Your work will be well oiled by our data. We want you to better understand our data and come up with cutting-edge insights and solutions to further enhance our service offering.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Relevant Bachelor’s Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in (Informatics/Computer Science/Statistics/IT) AND 8-10 years’ experience in Data Engineering / Business Data Intelligence / Data Science, of which 3-4 years at the operational specialist level

Alternative#

• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) Informatics/Computer Science/Statistics/IT) AND 15 years in Data Engineering / Business Data Intelligence / Data Science experience with 3-4 years at the operational specialist level.

Minimum Functional Requirements

• Experience in Data Engineering / Business Data Intelligence / Data Science
• Advanced (applied theory) technical expertise regarding data processes, data cleaning, analysis, reporting, data models, and database design and testing
• Knowledge of and experience with reporting tools (SQL and Power BI / Tableau or equivalent), databases (SQL Server) and programming (R, Python, etc.)
• Advanced (applied theory) knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analysing datasets (Excel, SPSS, SAS, R, etc.)
• Advanced (applied theory) Data warehouse knowledge.
• Be advanced in the application of:
• Basic Data Migration
• Basic Data Visualization  
• Business Intelligence Methodologies
• Database Knowledge
• Advanced (applied theory) Programming Skills – i.e. SQL, and Python/R, etc.
• Microsoft skills (Advanced in)– i.e. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.

Job Outputs:

Process

• Review the effectiveness of related approaches and methodologies by conducting research, and best practice benchmarking initiatives.
• Conduct assessments and use information to advise, make recommendations and facilitate improvement.
• Acquiring data from primary or secondary data sources and maintaining databases, applying the knowledge of data extraction, transformation, and business modelling.
• To perform complex/advance business analysis using various techniques, e.g. statistical analysis, explanatory and predictive modelling, and data mining.
• To design, develop, and test complex/advance data analytics solutions like Reports, Dashboards, Analysis, Extracts, Models, etc.
• To identify, analyse and interpret trends and patterns in complex/advance data sets, based on data findings.
• Communicate the results of their analysis and findings by using basic complex/advance visualisation techniques with both internal and external customers.
• To ensure the availability of existing data analytics solutions (like reports, etc.) by maintaining them as well as improving them where shortcomings exist.
• Analyses data, creates summary reporting, and performs analysis to support the decision-making of research, senior management, member companies, and internal departments.
• Builds and manages/maintains a database to house data collected from various sources.

Governance

• Implement and provide input into the development of governance, compliance, integrity, and ethics processes within the area of specialisation.

People

• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers and team members to achieve predefined objectives.
• Search for, integrate, and share new knowledge attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.

Finance

• Adhere to organisational policies and procedures to ensure cost-effectiveness and reduction of financial costs.

Client

• Contribute to a culture of service excellence, which builds positive relationships and provides opportunities for feedback and exceptional service.
• Provide authoritative, specialist services, expertise, and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
• Build and maintain relationships with clients and internal and external stakeholders that promote cross-functional process delivery solutions.