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Job Purpose

• 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) in Accounting/Tax/Audit AND 8-10 years' Audit experience , of which 3-4 years at an operational specialist level

Alternative

• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years experience in Tax/Audit environment, of which 3-4 years at an operational specialist level.

Minimum Functional requirements

• Higher Diploma in Tax and Law Degree will be an added advantage.

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 Investigative audit to achieve full scope 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

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
• Drive for Results
• Conceptual Thinking
• 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
   

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Job Purpose 

• The ideal candidate brings proven experience in large, complex change programmes, excels at simplifying technical change for diverse internal audiences, and can balance pace with governance, quality and risk management to enable SARS to modernise while keeping people informed, engaged and capable.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in either Marketing, Public Relations or Communication AND 8-10 years ‘experience in either large-scale Communication programmes or strategic communication focused on employee experience, of which 3-4 years is at a Junior Specialist level.

ALTERNATIVE

• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years’ experience in either Marketing, Public Relations or Communication & experience in large-scale Communication programmes or strategic communication focused on employee experience, of which 3-4 years is at a Junior Specialist level.

Minimum Functional Requirements

• Functional experience in Marketing & Communication for large-scale change programmes.

Job Outputs:

Process

• Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures, policies and practices. (I)
• Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans. (I)
• Develop a single practice area in alignment with operational activity and procedural frameworks and ensure tactical implementation. (I)
• Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge and experience to identify and recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices. (I)
• Drive and take a lead role on various Communications Campaigns.
• Ensure early diagnosis of reputations risks and make remedial recommendations.
• Ensure interface with the Production and Distribution Team to ensure correct product quality.
• Integrate business information, compare, analyse and produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision making purposes. (I)
• Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes and systems across an internal value chain. (I)
• Oversee and edit all the divisions communication content to ensure accurate reporting and content quality.
• Plan for value-added, continuous practice and system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence. (I)
• Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives, best practice implementation solutions. (I)
• Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice areas and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation. (I)
• Represent division at various communication platforms.
• Translate top-down policy, apply modification in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders. (I)

Governance

• Develop and /or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure liability. (I)

People

• Enable a culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared between team members.
• Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job. (I)

Finance

• Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation. (I)

Client

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

Behavioural competencies

• Accountability (V) - The acknowledgement and assumption of responsibility for actions, products, decisions, and policies within the scope of the role or employment position
• Adaptability - Adaptability is the willingness to alter behaviour, opinions or actions in the light of new information.
• Analytical Thinking - Understands a situation, issue, and or problem by breaking it into smaller pieces, or tracing the implications of a situation in a step-by-step way
• Attention to detail - The ability to take all relevant details into account to ensure that a task is completed to required standards.
• Commitment to Continuous Learning - Commitment to continuous learning is the commitment to think about current and future development needs
• Communicating with Impact - Communicates effectively in both the written and verbal format. Delivers clear, succinct messages and ensures understanding of others message
• Conceptual Ability - The ability to identify patterns or connections between situations that are not obviously related and to identify key or underlying issues in complex situation.
• Creativity - Degree, to which one analyses problems, makes decisions and thinks innovatively.
• Expertise in Context - Degree to which one possesses definitive technical and or fundamental understanding of the business
• Fairness and Transparency (V) - Build diverse and inclusive workplaces where decisions, practices, processes and transactions are transparent and fair.
• Honesty and Integrity (V) - The quality of being upright, truthful, sincere and freedom from deceit or fraud (H). Guided by values, ability to demonstrate moral judgement and doing the right thing consistently (I)
• Initiative - Refers to the identification of a problem, obstacle, or opportunity and taking action
• Organisational Awareness - Knowledge of own organisations, policies, procedures, services, products and business operating model.
• Problem Solving and Analysis - Must be able to systematically identify, analyse and resolve existing and anticipated problems in order to reach optimum solutions in a timely manner
• Respect (V) - Ability to be considerate for self and others.
• Trust (V)- Firm belief in the reliability, truth or ability of someone or something.

Technical competencies

• Business knowledge - Activities, tasks and practices associated with obtaining and using high level of knowledge in business areas, functions and products.
• Business Writing Skills - The capacity to communicate ideas, facts and quantitative data in writing using appropriate grammar, syntax, sentence and document structure in the business environment
• Corporate Communications Strategy - The ability to plan, implement, manage and review marketing communications to support organisational strategy in terms of vision, values and brand awareness
• Creative and Innovative Thinking - Required to develop innovative ideas, strategies and plans.
• Data Collection and Analysis - Ability to determine trends from raw data to assist decision-making in various aspects of work at SARS
• Efficiency Improvement - Contribution to improving the operational efficiencies within the team, incl. re-evaluation of processes, policies, procedures and provision of recommendations to enhance operational efficiency
• Functional Policies and Procedures - The knowledge and interpretation of the functional policies and procedures, including monitoring their consistent application internally within SARS.
• Quality Orientation - Promotes and maintains high standards of quality at work
• Reporting - Ability to create reports for various SARS stakeholders as relevant, in a lucid and effective manner, keeping in mind the purpose of the reports.
• Research - Conduct research, analyse trends and produce quantitative and qualitative information to inform business decisions
• Written Communication - Ability to express ideas, request actions, formulate plans, & policies, etc. by means of clear and effective writing, in order to support professional communication internally within SARS and externally