Position Summary:
The purpose of this role is to provide advice and guidance in the execution of audits and independently plan and conduct highly complex audits across multiple tax types, multiple periods with multiple risks, understanding the risk implications across other tax types, in compliance with all legislative requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice area and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
- Plan for value-added, continuous practice & system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence.
- Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership in area of expertise.
- To raise impactful/credible assessments in order to collect revenue
- Appears as a specialist witness in court and attend to court proceedings as and when required.
- Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
- Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders
- Enable a culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared between team members.
- Develop a single practice area in alignment with operational activity and procedural frameworks and ensure tactical implementation.
- Identify changes required to legislation to close loopholes
- Provide end-to-end query resolution advice on complex audits conducted by the team.
- Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.
- Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives, best practice implementation solutions.
- Identify initiatives to impact on compliance levels and refer to Case selection
- Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
- Integrate business information, compare, analyse & produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies & inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
- Provide technical guidance and training to other team members
- Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes & systems across an internal value chain.
- Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
- To enable Specialised audit to achieve in-depth audit case targets
- Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and associated area’s practice.
- Translate top-down policy in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders.
What you’ll have:
- Relevant Bachelor’s Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) AND 8-10 years’ Audit experience, of which 3-4 years ideally at operational specialist level
- Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years Audit experience