Specialist: Audit (HWI) x1

SARS; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

The South African Revenue Service is seeking a Senior Specialist: Audit to provide guidance in executing complex audits and ensuring compliance with legislation. The ideal candidate will possess a relevant degree and 8-10 years of audit experience. This role emphasizes integrity and teamwork, aiming to enhance revenue collection in South Africa's dynamic economic landscape. Successful applicants will join a culture committed to continuous learning and stakeholder service excellence, fostering collaborative efforts towards organizational goals.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years' audit experience, with 3-4 years at an operational specialist level.
• Higher Diploma in Tax and Law Degree will be an added advantage.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and guidance in the execution of audits.
• Conduct highly complex audits across multiple tax types, ensuring compliance.
• Develop productive relationships with team members and stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Attention to Detail

Problem Solving and Analysis

Integrity

Education

Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Accounting/Tax/Audit

Senior Certificate (NQF 4)

Job description

Position Reports to

Senior Specialist: Audit

Division

High Wealth Individual (HWI)

Location

Woodmead North Office Park

Advert Closing Date

19 January 2026

About the Position

In an ever-changing environment, we have built a responsive and agile organisation to give effect to our strategic intent of achieving voluntary compliance. We invite you to be part of the special team that contributes to the collection of revenue, protect the economy and people of South Africa. We believe that your skills, commitment, and dedication will add value and make a difference to the organisation and the country. Integrity is key to the organisation.

Job Purpose

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.

Education and Experience

• Minimum Qualification & Experience Required: Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Accounting/Tax/Audit AND 8-10 years' Audit experience, of which 3-4 years at an operational specialist level
• Alternative: Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years experience in Tax/Audit environment, of which 3-4 years at an operational specialist level.
• Minimum Functional requirements: Higher Diploma in Tax and Law Degree will be an added advantage.

Job Outputs

• 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 practises, processes & systems across an internal value chain.
• Plan for value-added, continuous practice & system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence.
• Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; best practice implementation solutions.
• Translate top down policy in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders.
• Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice area and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
• To enable Investigative audit to achieve full scope audit case targets
• To raise impactful/credible assessments in order to collect revenue
• Detecting and deterring non-compliance and influence and enforce compliance with tax legislation by conducting effective, efficient, and quality audits
• Conduct audits (plan, execute, finalize) of a high standard in which policies, standards, procedures, and legislation were correctly applied
• Timely completion of audits and disputes aligned to the SARS service charter
• Assist in the debt collection by providing information to ensure efficient and effective collection of all cases in which additional audit assessments were raised
• Develop productive relationships with team members and stakeholders to drive collective performance
• Provide technical guidance and training to other team members
• Identify initiatives to impact on compliance levels and refer to Case selection
• Identify changes required to legislation to close loopholes

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.
• Enable a culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared between team members.

Finance

• Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.

Client

• 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

• Accountability
• Analytical Thinking
• Attention to Detail
• Building Sustainability
• Commitment to Continuous Learning
• Conceptual Ability
• Drive for Results
• Conceptual Thinking
• 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
• Decisiveness
• Efficiency improvement
• Financial Accounting
• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Planning and Organising
• Quality Orientation
• Reporting

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.