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

Job Purpose 

• To analyse and provide expert advice on the compliance risk function in order to achieve business objectives.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) AND 8 - 10 years' Corporate Income Tax experience in a similar environment, of which 3 - 4 years at a junior specialist level.

ALTERNATE:

• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years Corporate Income Tax experience, of which 3 - 4 years at a junior specialist level.

Job Outputs:

Process

• Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and associated area's practice.
• Apply functional area policies in order to enhance unit's ability to advise business in complex field and or professional discipline.
• Provide specialist advice and guidance specific to a complex field and or professional discipline.
• Understand the system and the underlying principles supporting the overall business process.
• Undertake information gathering, research and analyse data within broad guidelines to produce accurate plans and / or recommendations for business issues.
• Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures, policies and practices.
• 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 and experience to identify and recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
• Integrate business information, compare, analyse and produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
• Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes and systems across an internal value chain.
• Plan for value-added, continuous practice and 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 areas and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
• Translate top-down policy, apply modification 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 and ensure implementation of a practice that builds service delivery excellence and encourages 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
• Attention to Detail
• Commitment to Continuous Learning
• Organisational Awareness
• Expertise in Context

Technical competencies

• Business Knowledge
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Efficiency improvement
• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Reporting
• Risk Knowledge
• Risk Awareness
• Risk and Compliance