Senior Officer: Risk Profiling

About the Position

SARS Taxpayer Engagement Operations is seeking a Senior Officer: Risk Profiling. An exciting opportunity is available for a proactive, forward thinking, self-motivated, dynamic Risk Profiler, of unquestionable integrity, to work within the Risk Profiling and Case Selection unit.

The successful applicant will be responsible for executing assigned tasks, mainly complex and under limited supervision, during the risk identification and profiling phase of the and detailed Risk Profiling process.

Job Purpose

To conduct and analyse the tax compliance behaviour across the taxpayer base with the view to inform the recommendation of integrated, complex full scope risk profiling cases, for Enforcement intervention.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in  Taxation/Finance/Accounting/Auditing and Economics with 5–7 years’ experience in compliance risk or customs, tax, risk profiling, audit, and investigation environment, of which 2–3 years must be at a technically skilled level.

Alternative #

Senior Certificate (NQF 4) and 10 years’ related experience in compliance risk or customs, tax, risk profiling, audit, and investigation environment, of which 2–3 years must be at a technically skilled level.

Minimum Functional Requirements

• Pre Lim Investigations: 2-3 years' experience in accounting, auditing, taxation, customs, investigation, forensic, anti-money laundering, cross-border payments, data analytics, fintech, digital payments or related compliance risk environment.


• Exposure to one or more of the following areas will be advantageous: customs and tax risk analysis, cross-border payments, transfer pricing, customs valuation, illicit financial flows, trade-based money laundering, fintech/digital payments, crypto asset transactions, data matching or complex non-compliance risk profiling.


• Ability to review and interpret selected financial, tax, customs or third-party information to identify possible risk indicators and support preliminary risk confirmation, referral or closure recommendations.


• Experience in financial crime risk analysis will be advantage.

Job Outputs:

Process

• 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.


• Be observant and engage on possible violations of procedures and standards of conduct and escalate where necessary.


• 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.


• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers, SARS role players and third parties to achieve predefined objectives.


• Draw on own knowledge and experience to diagnose symptoms, causes and possible effects in order to solve emerging problems.


• Identify and assess the level of non-compliance across all/multiple tax types.


• Identify and resolve queries and problems timeously, apply discretion in line with process guidelines provided.


• Identify tax evasion schemes and potential risk and recommend legal interventions.


• Identify, analyse and interpret non-compliance in order to profile high complex full scope cases for enforcement.


• Initiate process and procedural change, implement the change and provide guidelines and support related to new requirements as a result of the change.


• Plan for value-added process improvements, initiatives and services to deliver on operational strategy and objectives.


• Profiling of relevant identified parties to detect non-compliance and related risks.


• Provide specialist input through the investigation of opportunities for operational and process, product and risk optimisation.


• Review of TCC-FIA and Emigration applications above R 10 million and make recommendations.


• Analyse and match selected data from multiple sources, including tax returns, VAT information, customs declarations, third party data, financial records, invoices, agreements and payment records information to identify possible risk indicators.


• Conduct preliminary risk testing on selected samples to determine whether suspected non-compliance risks are supported by evidence before a risk confirmation report and risk profile  is prepared.


• Prepare clear risk observations, risk confirmation reports, closure rationales or referral recommendations to support full-scope risk profiling and appropriate audit, investigation or compliance intervention.

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.

Governance

• Ensure that completed work adhere to relevant policies, procedures, governance and legislative requirements and report on deviations and 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.

Behavioural competencies

• Accountability


• Analytical thinking


• Attention to detail


• Commitment to Continuous Learning 


• Conceptual Ability 


• Expertise in Context


• Fairness and Transparency


• Honesty and Integrity


• Organisational Awareness


• Problem Solving and Analysis 


• Respect


• Trust

Technical competencies

• Business Knowledge


• Data Collection and Analysis    


• Efficiency Improvement


• Functional Policies and Procedures


• Reporting


• Risk Identification


• Risk Knowledge

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.