Sars Career Opportunities
Position Reports to: Senior Specialist: Legal (Liaison)
Division: Corporate Cluster
Location: Brooklyn, Head Office, Pretoria
About the Position
SARS is looking for a self-motivated individual who can work in a fast-paced, high-pressured inter-agency environment. A highly skilled, experienced, purpose-led and value-driven individual to collaborate with the various enforcement stakeholders. The suitable candidate must have the ability to review and contribute to customs and excise investigations by identifying facts, accessing relevant sources and preparing written inputs for both internal and external investigations.
The official will be required to:
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- Department of Home Affairs Jobs Careers at DHA Prepare case suggestions (referrals) to enrich tactical implementation and excellence;
- Proactively identify interconnected investigative problems relating to customs and excise,
- Determine their impact in order to deliver appropriate case strategies
- Advise and develop alternatives based on best practice solutions.
The ideal candidate for the role should demonstrate knowledge and experience in inter-agency or joint investigations relating to Customs and Excise fraud, money-laundering, corruption and exchange control regulations contraventions. Also required is knowledge of SARS’s information sharing (legal and operational) mechanisms and proficiency in drafting case referrals for customs and excise fraud and statutory offences identified in respect of money-laundering, corruption and exchange control contraventions referred to SARS by enforcement stakeholders.
The individual will be part of team building and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships, facilitating communication and coordinating activities among enforcement stakeholders, in particular the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and SARS.
Job Purpose
To execute specialist stakeholder relation tactical interventions, tactical research assignments and to maintain & sustain mutual partnerships with all stakeholders, in the pursuit of SARS’s strategic vision.
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
Relevant Bachelor’s Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) AND 8-10 years’ experience in customs and excise investigation and/or liaison related experience, of which 3-4 years ideally at Operational Specialist level
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Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years in customs and excise investigation and/or liaison related experience of which 3-4 years ideally at Operational Specialist level
Job Outputs:
Process
- Build and sustain relationships with decision makers and interest groups, in support of operational objectives.
- Build strong relationships through providing direction and leadership to others and expressing positive expectations.
- Conduct assessments and use information to advise, make recommendations and facilitate improvement.
- Participate in the internal/external policy debate by building and managing relationships with internal/external policy makers and influencers.
- Provide high quality and responsive research consultancy to the organisation on stakeholder management or ethical considerations.
- Scan the public policy environment to identify and exploit opportunities for joint work where supportive of the objectives of the business unit and its networks.
- Work closely with internal / external coordinator/s on implementation of projects, provide advice and inputs on how to keep it dynamic and encourage stronger participation.
- Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and associated area’s practice.
- Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
- 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.
- Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practices, processes & systems across an internal value chain.
- Plan for value-added, continual practice & system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence.
- Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine their impact and use insights to develop best- fit alternatives or implement; best practice solutions.
- Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice area and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
- Translate top-down policy in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders.
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
- Contribute to the delivery of a contact programme with internal & external audiences where appropriate.
- Develop & ensure implementation of a practice that builds service delivery excellence & encourage others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.
- Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
- Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
Behavioural competencies
- Honesty and Integrity
- Conceptual Ability
- Organisational Awareness
- Trust
- Respect
- Service Delivery Innovation
- Stakeholder Engagement and Management
- Fairness and Transparency
- Analytical Thinking
- Accountability
- Relationship Management and Networking
- Creativity
- Attention to Detail
- Commitment to Continuous Learning
- Building Sustainability
- Strong Results Orientation
Technical competencies
- Collection and preservation of evidence and the chain of custody (Investigations)Ability to translate Strategy into Execution
- Interviewing and interrogation (Investigations)
- Testify in formal and criminal proceedings
- Investigative reporting
- Functional Policies and Procedures
- Reporting and Interpretation
- Customer Relationship Management
- Business Knowledge
- Efficiency improvement
- Decision Making and Problem Solving
Compliance Competency
- GOC Confidential
Employment Equity
The Employment Equity policy of SARS will be considered as part of the recruitment and selection process and Persons with Disabilities are encouraged to apply. Successful candidates will be required to undertake an oath of secrecy, pre-employment screening, case study, pre-assessment, psychometric assessment and or vetting, and a declaration of private interest. The appointment is also subject to appropriate reference(s) and security clearance where applicable.