About the position
Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) and 6 years' experience in a tax audit environment including 4 years of audit experience inprimary tax types. Experience in Corporate Income Tax, specialised financial products, corporate restructurings, specifically taxation experience in longterm insurance, non-life insurance and banking; and mergers & acquisitions transactions environment
Process
- Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making and the identification of improvementopportunities.
- Analyse complex data / evidence, review and confirm identified risks and consideration of additional risks which may relate to the entity beingaudited, across tax types, across related entities etc.
- Analyse transactions of a complex nature across multiple tax types and / or entities and / or groups of related entities which may be based locallyor internationally with the aim of understanding the tax implications thereof.
- Analyse voluminous information of a complex nature provided at dispute stage and taxpayer complaints logged across the linked and / or relatedentities and / or groups of entities
- Apply practical and applied knowledge and act authoritatively on methods, systems and procedures to identify trends and potential risks.
- Be involved in research to identify complex tax risks that may not have been addressed effectively through audit or other interventions. These riskswill be referred to Case Selection which may lead to the identification of new audit focus areas e.g. industry, tax specific risks etc.
- Communication of situational interpretation and judgement of work outputs and queries in area of specialisation.
- Conduct advanced audits of a complex nature (plan, execute, finalise) in line with relevant Acts / Regulations / Policies / SOPS using SARS systems.
- Continuous engagement with Debt Management aimed at optimal collection on liabilities raised through the audit. Conduct a detailed financialand cash flow analysis to support the recommendations which may be used thereafter. Engage the taxpayer regarding the collection of debt withor without the assistance of Debt Management at the finalisation stage of the audit.
- Correctly apply policies, practices, standards, procedures and legislation in the delivery of work outputs.
- Draw on own knowledge and experience to diagnose symptoms, causes and possible effects in order to solve emerging problems.
- Engagement with Litigation and Dispute management during and post the audit process to address issues relating to the interpretation of relevantlegislation e.g., tax, legislation relating to companies etc. This engagement will take cognizance of the outcomes of similar matters, tax court casesand civil court outcomes. The auditor may be required to testify in a civil court on matters of a complex nature.
- Identify and escalate enhancements to management on policies, procedures and guides. Auditors are also requested to provide inputs to draftpolicies and procedures to the product areas e.g., different Tax Types product areas, Process Design and Engineering, etc
Desired Skills:
- Tax Audit Manager
- Tax Audit Manager
- Tax Audit Manager
