specialist-advisor-direct-tax-legal-and-domestic-tax-at-the-south-african-revenue-service-sars

Job Description:

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The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is the nations tax collecting authority. Established in terms of the South African Revenue Service Act 34 of 1997 as an autonomous agency, we are responsible for administering the South African tax system and customs service. Its main functions are to: collect and administer all national taxes, duties and levies; c...

Specialist Advisor: Direct Tax (Legal and Domestic Tax)

Job Purpose

To provide a comprehensive legal or ancillary service by analysing/diagnosing the problem, identifying risks and enabling resolution within Direct Tax.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

Bachelor’s degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Law, Accounting or Tax and 8-10 years experience in a direct taxes’ environment, of which 3-4 years ideally at operational specialist level in direct tax advisory experience.

Minimum Functional Requirements

LLB or BCom Degree in Accounting; CA(SA) is an advantage.

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.
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.
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 areas 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.

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

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

Behavioural competencies