Senior Officer: Risk Profiling needed at The South African Revenue Service

Job Purpose

• As the Senior Officer: Risk Profiling, you will be responsible for independent planning and executing complex activities across multiple tax types, periods, and risk areas. Additionally present risk profiling outcomes to relevant committees, identify tax evasion schemes and potential risk and recommend legal interventions.  Your expertise will help ensure that we maintain a robust risk management framework while supporting our clients in achieving their business objectives.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Relevant Bachelor’s Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Accounting, Auditing or Taxation AND 5 – 7 years’ experience in an audit or tax risk environment, of which 3 years at a technically skilled level

Minimum Functional Requirements

• Preliminary Investigations: 2-3 years experience in an Accounting, Auditing or Taxation Investigation environment

Job Outputs:

Process

• Identify tax evasion schemes and potential risk and recommend legal interventions
• Be observant and engage on possible violations of procedures and standards of conduct and escalate where necessary.
• Plan and organise own work tasks within area of work.
• Identify, analyse and interpret non-compliance in order to profile high complex full scope cases for Enforcement.
• Profiling of relevant identified parties to detect non-compliance and related risks.
• Identify and assess the level of non-compliance across all/multiple tax types,.
• Review of TCC-FIA and Emigration applications above R 10 million and make recommendations.
• Identify and resolve queries and problems timeously, apply discretion in line with process guidelines provided.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers, SARS role players and third parties to achieve predefined objectives.
• Execute specialist input through investigation &opportunities within the product process including risk concern.
• Provide specialist input through the investigation of opportunities for operational and process product and risk optimisation.
• Plan for value-added process improvements, initiatives and services to deliver on operational strategy and objectives.
• Draw on own knowledge and experience to diagnose symptoms, causes and possible effects in order to solve emerging problems.
• Initiate process and procedural change, implement the change and provide guidelines and support related to new requirements as a result of the change.
• Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making and the identification of improvement opportunities.
• Apply practical and applied knowledge and act authoritatively on methods, systems and procedures to identify trends and potential risks.
• Communication of situational interpretation and judgement of work outputs and queries in area of specialisation.
• Correctly apply policies, practices, standards, procedures and legislation in the delivery of work outputs.

Governance

• Ensure that completed work adhere to relevant policies, procedures, governance and legislative requirements and report on deviations & discrepancies.
• Implement and provide input into the development of governance, compliance, integrity, and ethics processes within area of specialisation.

People

• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers and team members to achieve predefined objectives.
• Search for, integrate and share new knowledge attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.

Finance

• Adhere to organisational policies and procedures to ensure cost effectiveness and reduction of financial costs.

Client

• Contribute to a culture of service excellence, which builds positive relationships and provides opportunity for feedback and exceptional service.  
• Provide authoritative, specialist services, expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders

Behavioural competencies

• Fairness and Transparency
• Accountability
• Analytical thinking
• Conceptual Ability
• Trust
• Respect
• Honesty and Integrity
• Attention to detail
• Building Sustainability
• Commitment to Continuous Learning
• Organisational Awareness
• Problem Solving and Analysis

Technical competencies

• Risk Knowledge
• Business Knowledge
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Efficiency Improvement
• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Problem Analysis and Judgement
• Reporting
• Risk Identification
• Governance, Ethics and Values