Specialist: Legal & Domestic Jobs

Job Purpose

To provide technical legal support to the business area. The role involves offering legal analysis and advice, making recommendations to improve operational policies, participating in tax committees, and training and mentoring the team.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• BA Law / LLB Degree (NQF 7) and 8-10 years’ experience in a tax law environment, with 3-4 years at junior specialist level in Income Tax advisory.
• Must be an admitted Attorney or Advocate.

Minimum Functional Requirements

• Admitted Attorney or Advocate, or BCom in Accounting; CA (SA) is an advantage.
• Post-admission experience in tax law.
• Ability to assess and interpret complex tax structures and legal frameworks, including corporate reorganizations.

Job Outputs

Process

• Provide legal advice on proposed tax assessments, make recommendations, and support improvements.
• Recommend changes to optimize processes, systems, practices, and procedures, and implement innovations.
• Plan for value-added, continuous practice and system improvements to achieve objectives and enhance tactical implementation.
• Identify interconnected legal problems, assess their impact, and develop best-fit solutions for implementation.
• Translate top-down policies related to the practice area and communicate impacts to stakeholders.
• Develop a single practice area aligned with operational activities and procedural frameworks, ensuring tactical implementation.
• Use technical or professional expertise to identify and recommend tactical solutions to defined problems.
• Identify and mitigate tax risks effectively.
• Provide legal opinions on tax matters, ensuring compliance with tax legislation and related laws.
• Integrate business information, analyze it, and produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies, and inconsistencies for decision-making.
• Analyze and recommend improvements to specialist systems, procedures, and related practices.
• Contribute to optimal use of organizational resources by advising on planning and development of resource plans for the area of specialization.
• Optimize goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and improvement of practices, processes, and systems across the internal value chain.

Governance

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

People

• Provide specialist knowledge, support, advice, and thought leadership in the area of expertise.
• Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills from learning opportunities into job execution.

Finance

• Implement and monitor financial controls, cost management, and corporate governance in the area of specialization.

Client

• Develop and ensure implementation of practices that build service delivery excellence and encourage exceptional stakeholder service.
• Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute to organizational knowledge management.
• Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.

Behavioral Competencies

• Expertise in context
• Honesty and Integrity
• Trust
• Respect
• Problem solving and analysis
• Fairness and Transparency
• Analytical Thinking
• Accountability
• Conceptual Ability
• Adaptability
• Persuasion ability
• External Awareness
• Attention to detail
• Organizational awareness
• Building Sustainability
• Commitment to continuous learning
• Commercial acumen

Technical Competencies

• Functional Policies and procedures
• Tax law advisory and interpretation
• General Legal Knowledge and knowledge of ethics
• Reporting
• Business Knowledge
• Efficiency improvement
• Tax law Compliance
• Legal Writing Skills
• Tax Dispute Resolution
• Risk identification