Specialist Compliance Risk (x5) at The South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Job Purpose

• To conduct and analyse the tax compliance behaviour across the taxpayer base with the view to inform the recommendation of integrated, highly complex full scope risk profiling cases for High Net worth taxpayers intervention and to provide expert advice on the risk profiling function in order to achieve business objectives for High Nett worth taxpayers.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Accounting, Audit/ Tax AND 8-10 years' experience in a Risk Profiling or Audit environment, of which 3-4 years ideally at operational specialist level

Alternate

• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years’ experience in Compliance Risk or Audit environment

Job Outputs:

Process

• Identify, analyse and interpret non-compliance in order to profile highly complex full scope cases for Enforcement.
• Profiling of relevant identified related parties to detect non-compliance and related risks.
• Identify and assess the level of non-compliance across all/multiple tax types.
• Review of TCC-FIA and Emigration applications above R 10 million and make recommendations.
• Identify tax evasion schemes and potential risk and recommend legal interventions.
• Provide specialist advice and guidance specific to a complex field and or professional discipline.
• Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and associated area's practice.
• 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.
• Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; best practice implementation solutions.
• 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.
• Undertake information gathering, research and analyse data within broad guidelines to produce accurate plans & or recommendations for business issues.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Risk Knowledge
• Risk Awareness
• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Business Knowledge
• Efficiency improvement
   

Compliance Competency

• GOC Confidential