Specialist: Audit - Durban at The South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Job Purpose

• To provide advice and guidance in the execution of audits/investigations and independently plan and conduct highly complex audits/investigations across multiple tax types, multiple periods with multiple risks, understanding the risk implications across other tax types, in compliance with all legislative requirements. Drive delivery against the audit's/ investigation's/project's planning, performance, documentation, and elements of reporting.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma in Accounting/Audit/Taxation (NQF 7) or equivalent and 8-10 years' experience in Tax Audit/Financial Forensic Investigations, with 3-4 years at operational specialist level.

OR

• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) and 15 years’ experience in Tax Audit/ Financial Forensic Investigations, with 3-4 years at operational specialist level.

Job Outputs:

Process

• Independently plan and conduct highly complex audits/investigations across multiple tax types, multiple periods with multiple risks, understanding the risk implications across other tax types, in compliance with all legislative requirements.
• Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
• Provide specialist advice and guidance specific to a complex project and or professional discipline (different tax types).
• 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
• To raise impactful/credible assessments in order to collect revenue
• Detecting and deterring non-compliance and influence and enforce compliance with tax legislation by conducting effective, efficient, and quality audits/investigations.
• To lead investigations of medium to complex in nature, serve as a witness when required in compliance with all legislative requirements.
• Conduct audits/investigations (plan, execute, finalize) of a high standard in which policies, standards, procedures, and legislation were correctly applied

• Timely completion of audits/investigations and disputes aligned to the SARS service charter

• Assist in the debt collection by providing information to ensure efficient and effective collection of all cases in which additional audit assessments were raised
• Develop productive relationships with team members and stakeholders to drive collective performance

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.
• Enable a culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared between team members