Specialist: Investigations (Syndicated Tax Custom Crime Division (x1) at The South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Job Purpose

• To provide guidance and apply expert knowledge & skills in multiple cases, projects, programmes & may act as lead investigator or investigator in complex cases. Perform across multiple teams, regions & outside SARS with agencies & stakeholders.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) BCom, Law Degree, Forensic Financial Investigations, AND 8-10 years' experience in a similar environment, of which 3-4 years ideally at operational specialist level

Or

• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years related experience, of which 3-4 years ideally at operational specialist level

Job Outputs:

Process

• Identify, analyse and refer high risk, high revenue cases for audit, debt and criminal investigations relating to fraudulent syndicate activities.
• Provide specialist advice and guidance specific to a complex field and or professional discipline.
• To guide, direct and provide specialist advise on multiple cases, projects, across all tax types, and to lead investigations of medium to complex in nature, serve as a witness when required in compliance with all legislative requirements
• 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

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

• Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
• Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
• Develop & ensure implementation of a practice that builds service delivery excellence & encourage others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.
   

Behavioural competencies

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

Technical competencies

• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Search and Seizure
• Reporting
• Business Knowledge
• Efficiency improvement
• Criminal Investigation
• Decision Making and Problem Solving
   

Compliance Competency

• GOC Confidential
• ADJECTIVE LAW 4
• SUBSTANTIVE LAW 2
• Collection and preservation of evidence and the chain of custody (Investigations)
• Interviewing and interrogation (Investigations)
• Testify in formal and criminal proceedings
• Investigative reporting