Job Description

Job Title: Senior Specialist: Tax Avoidance and Reportable Arrangements (TARA)Position Reports to: Lead: AuditDivision: High Wealth Individual (HWI)Location: WoodmeadAdvert Closing Date: 22 July 2024About the PositionIn an ever-changing environment, we have built a responsive and agile organisation to give effect to our strategic intent of achieving voluntary compliance. We invite you to be part of the special team that contributes to the collection of revenue, protect the economy and people of South Africa. We believe that your skills, commitment, and dedication will add value and make a difference to the organisation and country. Integrity is key to the organisation.The Senior specialist should be able to detect and identify tax avoidance schemes and/or structures and/or legislative loopholes which erode the fiscus. This is done through analysing the submitted reportable arrangements, scrutinising financial journals, press reports and the JSE's SENS announcements.Job PurposeTo examine the legislative, taxpayer base and economic environments in order to determine likely forms of future tax avoidance schemes and put in place measures to counter these.Education and ExperienceHonours / Postgraduate Diploma (NQF 8) in Accounting, Tax Audit, Tax law or Banking AND 10-12 years' experience in a similar environment, of which 3-4 years on a specialist level.Minimum Qualification & Experience RequiredHonours /Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting, Tax Audit, Tax law, or Banking (NQF 8) AND 10-12 years' experience in a similar environment, of which 3-4 years on a specialist level ORBachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Accounting/ Tax Audit/ Tax law /Banking AND 12 - 15 years related experience.Minimum Functional RequirementsSignificant experience in intelligence, business insight, risk, audit or Law and complex tax arrangements and schemes.Job Outputs:Process

• Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy development and optimisation of practises, processes & systems across an internal value chain.
• Plan for value-added, continuous multiple practice and system improvement optimisation to deliver on objectives and to enhance tactical excellence.
• Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; developing best practice solutions.
• Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures, policies and practices.
• Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
• Develop multiple practices in alignment with operational policy and procedural frameworks, supporting tactical development and excellence.
• Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
• Influence and communicate across business areas impacted by practice area to minimise resistance and ensure onboarding of new thinking.
• Integrate business information, compare, analyse & produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies & inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
• Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice areas and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
• Translate top down policy, apply modification in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders.

Governance

• Manage and or advise on the translation and application of policy in a specific functional area.
• Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies in own practice areas 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.

Finance

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

Client

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

Behavioural competencies

• Expert Awareness
• Honesty and Integrity (V)
• Trust (V)
• Respect (V)
• Fairness and Transparency (V)
• Analytical Thinking
• Accountability (V)
• Conceptual Ability
• Problem Solving and Analysis
• Attention to Detail
• Commitment to Continuous Learning
• Organisational Awareness
• Building Sustainability

Technical competencies

• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Reporting
• Tax Compliance Auditing
• Business Knowledge
• Creative and Innovative Thinking
• Efficiency improvement
• Legal Advisory and Interpretation
• Legal Knowledge and knowledge of ethics
• Legal Compliance
• Policy Analysis

Compliance Competency

• GOC Confidential

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