Job Description

Job Title: Compliance Risk SpecialistPosition Reports to Business Area Lead: Civil Case SelectionDivision: Strategy Enab & ModernisationLocation: Gauteng South - Alberton CampusAdvert Closing Date: 27 June 2024About the PositionSARS is looking for a highly skilled, experienced, results-driven, and self-directed Specialist: Compliance Risk to provide guidance and apply expert knowledge & skills in multiple cases, projects, and programs in complex cases. Perform across multiple teams, regions & outside SARS with agencies & stakeholders.Job PurposeTo analyse and provide expert advice on the compliance risk function to achieve business objectives.Education and ExperienceMinimum Qualification & Experience RequiredRelevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) AND 8-10 years experience in a similar environment, of which 3-4 years at the junior specialist level** CA qualification or Masters degree in Taxation will be an added advantage# AlternativeSenior Bachelor's degree AND 15 years related experience in a similar environment, of which 3-4 years at junior specialist level.Minimum Functional RequirementsJob Outputs:Process

• Apply functional area policies to enhance the unit's ability to advise business in complex fields and or professional discipline.
• Understand the system and the underlying principles supporting the overall business process.
• Provide specialist advice and guidance specific to a complex field and or professional discipline.
• Undertake information gathering, research and analyse data within broad guidelines to produce accurate plans & or recommendations for business issues.
• To guide, direct and provide specialist advice on multiple cases, and projects, across all tax types.
• Identify, analyse, and refer high-risk, high-revenue cases for Specialised Audit
• Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures, and associated area's practice.
• Draw on your own technical or professional expertise, knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practice.
• 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 practices, 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 them to develop best-fit alternatives, best best-best-practice implementation solutions.
• Translate top-down policy about own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders.
• Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice areas 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 areas of expertise.
• Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.
• 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 the area of specialisation.

Client

• Develop & ensure implementation of a practice that builds service delivery excellence & encourages 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
• Developing Others
• Expertise in Context

Technical competencies

• Reporting and Interpretation
• Risk Knowledge
• Risk Awareness
• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Business Knowledge
• Efficiency improvement
• Risk Management
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Quality Management
• Governance, Ethics and Values

Compliance Competency

• Security Clearance - Top Secret

Employment EquityThe Employment Equity policy of SARS will be considered as part of the recruitment and selection process and Persons with Disabilities are encouraged to apply. Successful candidates will be required to undertake an oath of secrecy, pre-employment screening, case study, pre-assessment, psychometric assessment and or vetting, and a declaration of private interest. The appointment is also subject to appropriate reference(s) and security clearance where applicable.

South African Revenue Service