SARS Specialist: Policy & Procedure Vacancies 2023 South African Revenue Service Jobs in Pretoria

Job Description

About the Position

SARS’ BUSINESS DESIGN AND ENGINEERING Policy and Procedure team is looking for highly skilled, results driven professionals with relevant academic competence and experience in Customs and/or Excise with solid work values. The Policy and Procedure team of seasoned professionals develops policies, procedures, standards and guidelines. We believe that your skills, commitment and dedication will add value and make a difference to the organisation and country.

Job Purpose

To provide expertise, advice and support in practice, formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics, by ensuring that complex operational policy and standard operating procedures on a national level, are in line with international conventions and agreements, quality management standards and best practices, in order to enable tactical translation and operational implementation in Customs and/or Excise.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

Bachelor’s Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in law, economics or taxation AND 8-10 years’ experience in Customs and/or Excise, governance, policy analysis or similar of which 3-4 years ideally at operational specialist level.

ALTERNATIVELY

Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years related experience in Customs and/or Excise, governance, policy analysis or similar which 3-4 years operational specialist level.

Job Outputs:

Process

Develop policies, procedures, standards and guidelines within Customs and/or Excise.
Administer and interpret legislation and provide specialist advice in the area of speciality, which is Customs and/or Excise.
Translate top down policy in relation to Customs and/or Excise and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders.
Optimise the operational environment through research and application of best practices and ensure alignment to the overall infrastructure strategy.
Evaluate policy and standard operating procedure proposals within the broader framework of SARS goals and in conjunction with all relevant role players.
Apply judgment within policy and procedures to support and meet business needs.
Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and Customs and/or Excise practice.
Contribute to the optimum utilisation of organisational resources, advising on effective planning and development of Customs and/or Excise 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 and experience to identify and recommend tactical solutions to problems in practices.
Integrate business information, compare, analyse and produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes and systems across an internal value chain.
Plan for value-added, continuous practice and system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence.
Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use such to develop best fit alternatives and best practice implementation solutions.
Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice area and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
Develop and implement research methodologies and techniques which enable monitoring and reporting of research and analytical activities.

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 Customs and/or Excise.

Finance

Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in Customs and/or Excise.

Client

Develop and ensure implementation of a practice that builds service delivery excellence and encourages others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.
Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisational knowledge management.
Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.

Behavioural competencies

Attention to Detail
Accountability
Analytical Thinking
Commitment to Continuous Learning
Conceptual Thinking
Developing Others
Integrity
Trust
Fairness and Transparency
Problem Solving Analysis and Judgement
Organisational Awareness

Technical competencies

Business Knowledge
Data Collection and Analysis
Policy Analysis
Governance, Ethics and Values
Risk Compliance
Functional Policies and Procedures
Reporting
Reporting Interpretation

Compliance Competency

GOC Confidentiality