Job Description

Job Title: Specialist: Legal and Domestic (High Wealth Individuals)Position Reports to: Senior Manager: High Wealth IndividualsDivision: High Wealth Individual (HWI)Location: Woodmead OfficeAdvert Closing Date: 14 February 2025About the PositionSARS is looking for a highly skilled, experienced, results driven, self-directed individual with sound judgement and strong business acumen who will contribute towards our higher purpose and service orientation. The candidate must be an admitted attorney / advocate and possess excellent commercial tax, legal research and dispute resolution, be willing to learn, possess excellent negotiation and drafting skills and must be willing to thrive in a busy and demanding work environment. The suitable candidate must be a team player with good listening skills, respect ideas and aim to improve the product or process at hand.Job PurposeTo provide technical legal support and assist to business areas. S/he will be responsible to provide legal advice, make recommendations aimed at improving operational policies, participate in committees, and be responsible for training and mentoring of the team.Education and ExperienceMinimum Qualification & Experience Required

• BA Law / LLB Degree (NQF 7) AND 8-10 year's experience in Tax Law environmen of which 3-4 years ideally at an operational specialist (i.e., middle management) level; AND
• Admitted Attorney or Advocate.

Admitted Attorney or AdvocateAlternative

• Senior Certificate AND 15 years related experience in a Tax Law environment; AND

• Admitted Attorney or Advocate

Minimum Functional Requirements

• Admitted Attorney or Advocate
• Assess and interpret, intricate tax structures and legal frameworks including corporate reorganisations.

Job Outputs:Process

• Conduct assessments and use information to advise, make recommendations and facilitate improvement. Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice area and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
• Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice area and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
• 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.
• 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.
• Identify and mitigate tax risks effectively.
• Provide legal opinions on tax matters, ensuring compliance with various tax legislation and related laws.
• Integrate business information, compare, analyse & produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies & inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
• 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.
• Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes & systems across an internal value chain.

Governance

• Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure liability.
• Manage and or advise on the translation and application of policy in a specific functional area

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.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective management of interdependencies.
• Build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships, facilitates communications and coordinate activities among stakeholders.

Finance

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

Client

• Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
• 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.

Behavioural competencies

• Analytical Thinking
• Fairness and transparency
• Conceptual Ability
• External Awareness
• Accountability
• Problem Solving and Analysis

• Persuasion Ability
• Diversity Awareness
• Honesty and integrity
• Trust
• Respect
• Expertise in Context
• Attention to Detail
• Commitment to Continuous Learning
• Organisational Awareness
• Building Sustainability

Technical competencies

• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Reporting
• Business Knowledge
• Effective business communication
• Creative and Innovative Thinking
• Efficiency improvement
• Legal Advisory and Interpretation
• Legal Knowledge and knowledge of ethics
• Legal Compliance
• Policy analysis
• Risk identification

Compliance Competency

• GOC 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