Specialist: Audit (HWI) x1 Jobs

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  • Full Time
  • Pretoria, South Africa

The South African Revenue Service (SARS)

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is the nation’s tax collecting authority. Established under the South African Revenue Service Act 34 of 1997 as an autonomous agency, we manage the South African tax system and customs service. Our main functions include collecting and administering all national taxes, duties, and levies.

Specialist: Audit (HWI) x1

  • Job Type: Full Time
  • Qualification: Bachelor’s, Higher National Certificate, Matric, National Certificate
  • Experience: 8 – 15 years
  • Location: South Africa
  • Job Field: Finance / Accounting / Audit

Job Purpose

To provide advice and guidance on conducting audits. Independently plan and execute complex audits across multiple tax types, periods, and risks. Understand how risks affect other tax areas, while following all legal requirements.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification and Experience Required

  • Relevant Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Accounting, Tax, or Audit, plus 8-10 years of audit experience, including 3-4 years at an operational specialist level.

Alternative

  • Senior Certificate (NQF 4) plus 15 years of experience in a tax or audit environment, including 3-4 years at an operational specialist level.

Minimum Functional Requirements

  • A Higher Diploma in Tax or a Law Degree is an added advantage.

Job Outputs

Process

  • Analyze and suggest improvements to specialist systems, procedures, and practices.
  • Help use organizational resources effectively by advising on planning and developing resource plans for your area.
  • Develop a practice area that aligns with operational activities and procedures, and ensure its tactical implementation.
  • Use your technical or professional expertise to identify and recommend solutions to problems.
  • Integrate business information, analyze it, and create reports to spot trends, discrepancies, and inconsistencies for decision-making.
  • Optimize goal achievement by implementing and improving practices, processes, and systems across the internal value chain.
  • Plan for ongoing improvements in practices and systems to meet objectives and enhance implementation.
  • Identify interconnected problems, assess their impact, and develop practical solutions.
  • Translate top-level policies into your practice area and communicate their effects to stakeholders.
  • Recommend changes to improve processes, systems, and procedures, and help implement them.
  • Support investigative audits to meet full-scope audit targets.
  • Raise credible assessments to collect revenue.
  • Detect and deter non-compliance, and promote compliance with tax laws through effective audits.
  • Conduct high-standard audits (plan, execute, finalize) following policies, standards, procedures, and legislation.
  • Complete audits and disputes on time, in line with the SARS service charter.
  • Assist in debt collection by providing information for efficient recovery of assessed amounts.
  • Build strong relationships with team members and stakeholders to improve collective performance.
  • Offer technical guidance and training to team members.
  • Identify initiatives to boost compliance and refer them to case selection.
  • Spot changes needed in legislation to close loopholes.

Governance

  • Develop or align governance and compliance policies for your practice area to manage risks and liabilities.

People

  • Apply new knowledge and skills from learning opportunities to your work.
  • Provide specialist support, advice, and thought leadership in your area of expertise.
  • Foster a culture of sharing successes, issues, trends, and ideas among team members.

Finance

  • Implement and monitor financial controls, cost management, and corporate governance in your specialization.

Client

  • Develop and implement practices that build service excellence and encourage exceptional stakeholder service.
  • Contribute to the specialist practice community and organizational knowledge management.
  • Offer authoritative expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.

Behavioural Competencies

  • Accountability
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Attention to Detail
  • Building Sustainability
  • Commitment to Continuous Learning
  • Conceptual Ability
  • Drive for Results
  • Conceptual Thinking
  • Expertise in Context
  • Fairness and Transparency
  • Honesty and Integrity
  • Organisational Awareness
  • Problem Solving and Analysis
  • Respect
  • Trust

Technical Competencies

  • Business Knowledge
  • Data Collection and Analysis
  • Decisiveness
  • Efficiency Improvement
  • Financial Accounting
  • Functional Policies and Procedures
  • Planning and Organising
  • Quality Orientation
  • Reporting

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should apply through the SARS career portal.

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