Job Opportunities at The South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Job Purpose

• To conduct standard audits or verification on a risk profile basis to ensure compliance.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• National Diploma in Auditing/Finance field and 2-3 years' experience in Auditing environment, of which 1-2 years ideally at knowledge worker level field

OR

• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) and 5 years’ experience in Auditing environment, of which 1-2 years ideally at knowledge worker level field

Job Outputs:

Process

• Be informed on related acts, legislation and regulations that might impact on own work.
• Be observant and engage on possible violations of regulation, policies, SOPs and standards of conduct and escalate where necessary.
• Conduct standard (limited scope) audits to ensure compliance with the relevant acts.
• Plan and organise own work tasks within are of work.
• Prepare and present submissions to interest and penaly committee.
• Take accountability for delivery of contracted work outputs within agreed parameters, quality standards and client service targets.
• Accumulate information and provide reports with recommendations applicable to area of specialisation.
• 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 applicable legislation, including amongst others policies, procedures, and SOPs in the delivery of work outputs.
• Effectively plan and schedule own activities to continuously improve quality and service delivery in area of specialisation.
• Execute process and procedural change, implement the change and provide guidelines and support related to new requirements as a result of the change.
• Use practical and applied knowledge and situational judgement to consider policy implications and to arrive at decisions/conclusions.
   

Governance

• Comply to set governance and compliance procedures and processes related to an area of specialisation and continuously identify and escalate risks.
   

People

• Develop productive working relationships with team members, Ops manager and key role players in the business to support contracted work outputs.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers and team members to achieve predefined objectives.
   

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
• Ensure own understanding and adherence to customer service delivery and provide specialist support to meet or exceed customer expectations
   

Behavioural competencies

• Fairness and Transparency
• Analytical thinking
• Accountability
• Conceptual ability
• Organisational awareness
• Trust
• Respect
• Attention to detail
• Commitment to continuous learning
• Building Sustainability
• Honesty and Integrity
• Teamwork
   

Technical competencies

• Reporting
• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Financial Accounting
• Operational Audit
• Business Knowledge
• Efficiency improvement
   

Compliance Competency

• Security Clearance: GOC Confidential

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Job Purpose

• To plan and execute the development of data driven solutions through understanding of business requirements and be responsible for data extraction, analysis and reporting within the organisation, including fulfilling the functions of advanced analytics.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Statistics/Mathematical Sciences, Computer Sciences/ Information Technology/Data Science  AND 5-7 years' experience in a data analytics/data science environment, of which 2-3 years ideally at functional specialist level

OR

• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 10 years’ experience in a data analytics/data science environment, of which 2-3 years ideally at functional specialist level

Job Outputs:

Process

• 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.
• 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 because of the change.
• Plan for value-added process improvements, initiatives and services to deliver on operational strategy and 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.
• To acquiring data from primary or secondary data sources and maintaining databases, applying the knowledge of data extraction, transformation and business modelling.
• To perform “intermediate” business analysis using various techniques, e.g. statistical analysis, explanatory and predictive modelling, data mining.
• To design, develop and test medium to complex data analytics solutions like Reports, Dashboards, Analysis, Extracts, Models, etc.
• To identify, analyses and interpret trends and patterns in medium to complex data sets, based on data findings.
• Communicate the results of their analysis and findings by using medium to complex data visualisation techniques with both internal and external customers.
• To ensure the availability of existing data analytics solutions (like reports, etc.) by maintaining them as well as improving them where shortcomings exist.
• To research best practices and supports developing the solutions and recommendations for the current business operations
• To assist in the filtering and “cleaning” of imported data by reviewing computer reports, printouts, and performance indicators to locate and correct code problems.
   

Governance

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

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
• Adaptability
• Conceptual ability
• Customer Service
• Trust
• Respect
• Honesty and Integrity
• Attention to detail
• Building Sustainability
   

Technical competencies

• Statistics/ mathematical/data science
• Information Management
• Business Knowledge
• Research
• Functional Policies & Procedures
• Data Management
• Data Collection
• Reporting
• Data Compilation
   

Compliance Competency

• Grade of Clearance: a) sensitive info (b) commercial info, the disclosure of which may cause financial loss to an entity or may prejudice an entity in its relations with its clients, competitors, contractors and supplies. 
   

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Job Purpose

• The purpose of this role is to provide advice and guidance in the execution of audits and independently plan and conduct highly complex audits across multiple tax types, multiple periods with multiple risks, understanding the risk implications across other tax types, in compliance with all legislative requirements.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) AND 8-10 years' Audit experience, of which 3-4 years ideally at operational specialist level                                                                                                  

   ALTERNATIVELY

• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years Audit experience

Job Outputs:

Process

• 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.
• To enable Specialised audit to achieve in-depth audit case targets
• To raise impactful/credible assessments in order to collect revenue
• Detecting and deterring non-compliance and influence and enforce compliance with tax legislation by conducting effective, efficient, and quality audits
• Conduct audits (plan, execute, finalize) of a high standard in which policies, standards, procedures, and legislation were correctly applied
• Timely completion of audits and disputes aligned to the SARS service charter
• Assist in the debt collection by providing information to ensure efficient and effective collection of all cases in which additional audit assessments were raised
• Develop productive relationships with team members and stakeholders to drive collective performance
• Provide technical guidance and training to other team members
• Identify initiatives to impact on compliance levels and refer to Case selection
• Identify changes required to legislation to close loopholes
• Appears as a specialist witness in court and attend to court proceedings as and when required.
• Provide end-to-end query resolution advice on complex audits conducted by the team.
• Conduct research into local & international practices & trends in order to identify best practice & the most practical business solutions & options.

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

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

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

Technical competencies

• Business Knowledge
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Decisiveness
• Efficiency improvement
• Financial Accounting
• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Planning and Organising
• Quality Orientation
• Reporting
   

Compliance Competency

• GOC Confidential