Specialist: Compliance Risk (Governance) at The South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Job Purpose

• To develop governance frameworks, analyse and provide expert advice, monitoring services and reports, assessments (including maturity assessments) and consulting services, in respect of Enterprise/Corporate Governance, in order for Business to achieve business objectives.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required 

• Bachelor’s Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Public Management & Governance, Business and/or Management related studies AND 8-10 years’ experience in a Governance, Risk and Compliance and/or Public Policy environment of which 3-4 years at operational specialist level.

ALTERNATIVE #

• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years related experience in a Governance, Risk and Compliance and/ or Public Policy environment of which 3-4 years at operational specialist level.
•  # The alternative qualifications and experience refer to internal minimum requirements.
• #Middle Management experience will be an added advantage.

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 a complex field and or professional discipline.
• Undertake information gathering, research and analyse data within broad guidelines to produce accurate plans, reports & or recommendations for business issues.
• 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.

Governance

• Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure 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 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.

Behavioural competencies

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

Technical competencies

• Reporting and Interpretation
• Corporate Governance Knowledge
• Risk Awareness
• Compliance testing and Governance consulting
• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Business Knowledge
• Efficiency improvement

Deadline:24th February,2026