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Job Purpose

• As the Senior Officer: Risk Profiling, you will be responsible for independent planning and executing complex activities across multiple tax types, periods, and risk areas. Additionally present risk profiling outcomes to relevant committees, identify tax evasion schemes and potential risk and recommend legal interventions.  Your expertise will help ensure that we maintain a robust risk management framework while supporting our clients in achieving their business objectives.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Accounting, Auditing or Taxation AND 5 - 7 years’ experience in an audit or tax risk environment, of which 3 years at a technically skilled level

Minimum Functional Requirements

• Preliminary Investigations: 2-3 years experience in an Accounting, Auditing or Taxation Investigation environment

Job Outputs:

Process

• Identify tax evasion schemes and potential risk and recommend legal interventions
• Be observant and engage on possible violations of procedures and standards of conduct and escalate where necessary.
• Plan and organise own work tasks within area of work.
• Identify, analyse and interpret non-compliance in order to profile high complex full scope cases for Enforcement.
• Profiling of relevant identified 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 and resolve queries and problems timeously, apply discretion in line with process guidelines provided.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers, SARS role players and third parties to achieve predefined objectives.
• Execute specialist input through investigation &opportunities within the product process including risk concern.
• Provide specialist input through the investigation of opportunities for operational and process product and risk optimisation.
• Plan for value-added process improvements, initiatives and services to deliver on operational strategy and objectives.
• Draw on own knowledge and experience to diagnose symptoms, causes and possible effects in order to solve emerging problems.
• Initiate process and procedural change, implement the change and provide guidelines and support related to new requirements as a result of the change.
• Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making and the identification of improvement opportunities.
• Apply practical and applied knowledge and act authoritatively on methods, systems and procedures to identify trends and potential risks.
• Communication of situational interpretation and judgement of work outputs and queries in area of specialisation.
• Correctly apply policies, practices, standards, procedures and legislation in the delivery of work outputs.

Governance

• Ensure that completed work adhere to relevant policies, procedures, governance and legislative requirements and report on deviations & discrepancies.
• Implement and provide input into the development of governance, compliance, integrity, and ethics processes within area of specialisation.

People

• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers and team members to achieve predefined objectives.
• Search for, integrate and share new knowledge attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.

Finance

• Adhere to organisational policies and procedures to ensure cost effectiveness and reduction of financial costs.

Client

• Contribute to a culture of service excellence, which builds positive relationships and provides opportunity for feedback and exceptional service.  
• Provide authoritative, specialist services, expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders

Behavioural competencies

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

Technical competencies

• Risk Knowledge
• Business Knowledge
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Efficiency Improvement
• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Problem Analysis and Judgement
• Reporting
• Risk Identification
• Governance, Ethics and Values
   

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Job Purpose

• To ensure effective and efficient planning and execution of compliance risk activities to regulate taxpayer compliance and maximise tax revenue collections by conducting, analysing and recommending compliance interventions for Prominent Individuals and Restricted Entities Segment Taxpayers in order to continuously enhance service delivery and voluntary compliance.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

•  Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Accounting / Auditing/ Taxation AND  8-10 years' experience working with in Taxpayer Risk profiling of which 3-4 years at Junior Management level.

Job Outputs:

Process

• Plan and manage projects in area of accountability that impact on different business areas.
• Apply functional area policies to enhance unit's ability to advise business in complex field and or professional discipline.
• Develop and plan functional unit's quarterly plan in line with the area's annual plan and execute to achieve target's/objectives.
• Plan and report on unit's outputs, identify possible deviations and problems which may affect outputs and develop and implement alternative plans.
• Research and support workable recommendations/solutions that meet business needs through information analysis.
• Act as the bottom-line drivers of tactical implementation within the context of business unit excellence and performance improvement.
• Direct, control, coordinate and optimise budgeted resources to meet specific objectives and deliver agreed results and productivity requirements.
• Ensure the development and implementation of a practice in alignment with operational policy and procedural frameworks.
• Implement tactical strategy and delivery plans through the development of operational activities, ensuring the achievement of operational targets.
• Use the insights gained through integrated business reports to measure success & realign tactical strategy implementation objectives appropriately.
• Plan for handling work outputs, pull together interdependent activities & specify priorities, standards & procedures to ensure tactical implementation.
• Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, policies, and procedures, and execute the implementation of change and innovation initiated by the organisation.
• Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact, and use to develop best fit alternatives, implementing best practice solutions.
• Provide periodic reports on performance against plan & progress on short-term initiatives & use to realign tactical plan and objectives appropriately.
• Timeously communicate top-down policy and associated single practice area modification, objective achievement progress and critical success factors to impacted stakeholders.

Governance

• Monitor and promote the application of governance and required legal compliance in the context of policy and processes.
• Implement governance, risk, and compliance policy in own practice area to identify and manage governance and risk exposure liability.
• Manage and or advise on the translation and application of policy in a specific functional area.

People

• Encourage and enable teamwork, by enabling collaboration with others and commitment to pursuing set goals.
• Develop and maintain a team that is capable for operating to their full capability and provide appropriate skills, knowledge, and experience.
• Plan & implement enhanced organisational efficiency by identifying and addressing development requirements & providing tools for people resources.
• Create a positive work climate & culture to energise employees & give meaning to work, minimise work disruption and maximise employee productivity.
• Translate performance expectations into specific metrics and goals to identify and provide effective services, solve problems, and achieve objectives.
• Develop & implement appropriate people capacity plans in line with delivery & efficiency targets, on budget & in partnership with specialised area.

Finance

• Contribute to the development of divisional budgets to minimise expenditure aligned with divisional plans.
• Establish revenue targets for individuals and teams and identify and pursue opportunities to increase revenue collection in area of accountability.
• Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of accountability.
• Draw up a budget aligned to tactical delivery plans, monitor planned vs. actual, minimise expenditure and report on cost efficiency

Client

• Develop and ensure implementation of practices which builds service delivery excellence and encourages others to provide exceptional client service.
• Manage an integrated service excellence culture, which builds rewarding relationships and provides opportunity for feedback and exceptional service.
• Build strong relationships and implement service level agreements that promote SARS with internal and external stakeholders.

Behavioural competencies

• Conceptual Thinking
• Championing the Mandate
• Influencing Others
• Mobilising Teams
• Driving for Excellence
• Leveraging Diversity
• Accurate Understanding
• Developing Others
• Fairness and Transparency
• Accountability
• Problem Solving and Analysis
• Honesty and Integrity
• Trust
• Respect
• Building Sustainability

Technical competencies

• IT Strategy and Planning
• Risk Knowledge
• Risk Awareness
• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Reporting and Interpretation
• Managerial Budgeting
• Tax Knowledge
• Effective Business Communication
• Problem Analysis and Judgement
• Planning, Management and Measurement
• Decisiveness
• Business Acumen