Education and experience

• Minimum Honours Degree in Tax, Customs, Commerce or comparable NQF level 8,
• Accounting and auditing standards
• Criminal & Forensic Investigations or Auditing knowledge and experience

Experience
• 8 years’ experience in a Tax and Customs Environment or similar environment with sound experience in the application and use of the all COMPANY administered taxes and duties administered by COMPANY
• Forensic Auditing and Investigations
• This individual must be able to independently hold responsibility, is a self-initiator and is able to influence beyond immediate colleagues

Position : Specialist: Investigations

Division : Enforcement – National Projects

Location : Pretoria, Polokwane, Bloemfontein and Durban

Remuneration: R600k to R1100k

Job Purpose

• To provide guidance and apply expert knowledge and skills in multiple cases, projects, programmes & may act as lead investigator or investigator in complex cases. Perform across multiple teams, regions & outside COMPANY stakeholders.

Job Objectives

• The jobholder is an acknowledged national expert on Financial Investigations, Accounting and Auditing.
• The jobholder has the ability to identify, analyse and resolve high risk, high revenue cases for audit and debt.
• To identify, collect, analyze and interpret relevant internal and external information and facts effectively towards reaching valuable conclusions and outcomes to ensure the identification of high risk, high revenue yield cases for audit and decisions relating to when and if to criminally prosecute offenders.
• To utilise understanding of functional area, legislation and mandate to make recommendations to the functional strategy.
• To provide expert advice and guidance to staff within COMPANY on accounting and auditing principles, standards, procedures and applications as well as in taxation, customs and excise matters.
• Manage high-risk complex financial investigations
• Continuously contribute to the upgrading of COMPANY Staff knowledge and / or skills by acting as mentor to meet the changing requirements of the job
• Liaise with management within COMPANY with respect to findings and recommendations for any improvements or adjustments in procedures, actions, strategies, , etc.
• Monitor and promote the application of governance and required legal compliance in the context of policy and processes.
• Provide specialist advice and guidance specific to a complex field and or professional discipline.Identify tax and customs loopholes and the potential risk and recommended legal interventions in an effort to close the tax gap.
• Analyze risk with the aim to recommend legal intervention and/or suggestion tax education to curb risk.
• To perform project management functions on selected projects.