Senior. Manager: High Wealth Individual needed at The South African Revenue Service

Job Purpose

• To provide expert advise and guidance and/or execute highly complex and highly specialised audits for High Wealth Individuals.

Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Relevant Honours / Postgraduate Diploma in Tax, Accounting, Auditing (NQF 8) AND 10-12 years’ experience in a Tax and audit environment, of which 3-4 years ideally at specialist level,

OR
 

• Relevant Bachelor’s Degree / Advanced Diploma in Tax, Accounting, Auditing (NQF 7) AND 12 – 15 years experience in a Tax and audit environment, of which 3-4 years ideally at specialist level.

Minimum Functional Requirements

• CA(SA), CFA, Masters in Tax, MCom, H Dip(tax) with extensive experience in a specialist audit/legal environment.

Job Outputs:

Process

• Plan, conduct and manage highly complex risk-based audits to ensure compliance with relevant acts.
• Identify tax gaps and evasion schemes involving complex matters and suggest potential solutions to minimize tax risks.
• Manage quality in planning, execution and finalisation of audits.
• Conduct research into local & international practices & trends in order to identify best practice & the most practical business solutions & options.
• Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to tax law, specialist systems, procedures, policies and practices.
• Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
• Develop multiple practices in alignment with operational policy and procedural frameworks, supporting tactical development and excellence.
• Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
• Influence and communicate across business areas impacted by practice area to minimise resistance and ensure on-boarding of new thinking.
• Integrate business information, compare, analyse & produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies & inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
• Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy development and optimisation of practises, processes & systems across an internal value chain.
• Plan for value-added, continuous multiple practice and system improvement optimisation to deliver on objectives and to enhance tactical excellence.
• Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; developing best practice solutions.
• Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice areas and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
• Translate top down policy, apply modification in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders

Governance

• Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies in own practice areas to identify and manage risk exposure liability.

People

• Enable a culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared between team members.
• 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

• 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.