Job Description
Regulatory Interpretation & Translation into Data:
- Interpret FATCA, CRS and IT3 legislation, SARS Business Requirement Specifications (BRS) and technical guidance.
Translate regulatory requirements into practical data logic, including:
- Mandatory vs optional fields
- Inclusion and exclusion criteria
- Reason codes, indicators and classifications
- Record‑level vs file‑level validation rules
- Act as the final technical authority on how regulatory requirements are reflected in data models and submissions.
End‑to‑End Regulatory Data Lineage Oversight:
- Maintain conceptual ownership of end‑to‑end data lineage from source systems through to regulatory submission.
Provide authoritative guidance on:
- Correct data keys and identifiers
- Record uniqueness rules
- Product‑level alignment (e.g. Cheques, Savings, Deposits)
- Monthly vs cumulative data treatment
- Ensure alignment and reconciliation across FATCA, CRS and IT3 reporting streams.
Regulatory File Construction, Review & Validation:
- Review and validate regulatory submission files prior to sign‑off and submission.
Apply deep understanding of SARS technical requirements, including:
- File structures and sequencing
- Delimiter and formatting rules
- Validation logic and rejection behaviors
- Perform or support manual file reconstruction or correction where automation fails or is incomplete.
Data Quality Management & Regulatory Defensibility:
- Define and apply data quality rules impacting regulatory reporting.
- Gatekeep inclusion vs exclusion decisions, ensuring:
- Clear rationale for exclusions
- Audit‑ready evidence and sign‑off
- Support SARS audits, regulatory reviews and information requests through defensible explanations and historical analysis.
Remediation & Historical Data Reconstruction:
- Support remediation initiatives arising from regulatory findings, audits or control weaknesses.
- Reconstruct and analyze historical data populations across multiple tax years.
- Assess whether remediated client data triggers re‑submission obligations.
Process Ownership, Knowledge Management & Capability Building:
- Develop and maintain operational procedures for regulatory data handling.
- Document exception handling, remediation workflows and manual controls.
- Act as a knowledge custodian within Tax Operations, reducing key‑person dependency over time.
- Provide training and guidance to Business Units and Tax Ops colleagues where required.
Education & Experience Required:
- B‑Degree in Commerce, Accounting, Tax, Finance, Information Systems or related field
- Post‑graduate qualification in Commerce, Accounting, Tax or Data / Business Analysis advantageous
- Understanding of and certification in SQL, Postgres and other applicable
- Extensive experience in regulatory tax reporting (FATCA, CRS, IT3) within Financial Services
- Proven experience working with large, complex regulatory data sets
- Strong exposure to regulatory audits, remediation and governance forums
- Experience interfacing with Technology and Data teams in a regulated environment
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