Job Description

Job Title: 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 specialist's main responsibilities are to detect and identify tax avoidance schemes and/or structures and/or legislative loopholes through analysing the submitted reportable arrangements, scrutinising financial journals, press reports and the JSE's SENS announcements.Job PurposeTo identify, analyse and challenge tax avoidance schemes related to High Wealth Individuals.Education and Experience

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree /Advanced Diploma) in Accounting/ Tax Audit/ Tax law /Banking (NQF 7) AND 8-10 years' experience in a similar environment, of which 3-4 years at an operational specialist level

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Accounting/ Tax Audit/ Tax law /Banking AND 8-10 years' experience in a similar environment, of which 3-4 years at an operational specialist level

Alternate

• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years related experience.

Minimum Functional Requirements

• Significant experience in intelligence/business insight/ risk/ audit/Law and complex tax arrangements and schemes.

Job Outputs:Process

• Provide advice to auditors regarding tax avoidance investigations.
• Conduct presentations regarding the indicators of tax avoidance structures.
• Detect and identify tax avoidance schemes and/or structures and/or legislative loopholes through analysing the submitted reportable arrangements, scrutinising financial journals, press reports and the JSE's SENS announcements.
• Offer and provide support to Investigative Audit and Compliance Audit in respect of tax avoidance matters / GAAR (General Anti Avoidance Regulations) investigations.
• Identify developing trends and schemes of tax avoidance and make recommendations regarding ways to address these issues.
• Write technical articles, opinions, motivations for amendments to legislation, comment on technical papers.
• 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.

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 area of expertise.
• Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.

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

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

Technical competencies

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

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