Job Description

Position Reports to: Bus Area Lead: Illicit Economic Activity
Division: Taxpayer Engagement
Location: Gauteng - Edenvale
Advert Closing Date: 02 July 2025
About the Position
SARS is looking for a highly skilled, experienced, results-driven and self-directed Manager to optimise revenue yield by combating tax and customs offences, thereby ensuring compliance to the Acts administered by SARS. Drive delivery against the audit's/ investigation's/project's planning, performance, documentation, and elements of reporting.
Job Purpose
To optimise revenue yield by combating tax and customs offences, thereby ensuring compliance to the Acts administered by SARS. Drive delivery against the audit's/ investigation's/project's planning, performance, documentation, and elements of reporting.
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) BCom Accounting/ Audit, Law Degree, AND 8-10 years' experience in an Investigation / Audit / Customs and Excise environment, of which 3-4 years at Junior Management level
Or
Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years' experience in an Investigation / Audit/ Customs and Excise environment, of which 3-4 years at Junior Management level
Minimum Functional Requirements
Job Outputs:
Process

• Ensure that the delegated, legal powers are carried out in a legal and correct manner and the rights of taxpayers and SARS are respected.
• Manage investigation of fraud, theft, serious transgressions and corruption to determine liability and accountability and advice on causes thereof.
• Drive successful investigations into tax evasion, fraud and illegal customs activities.
• Identify developing trends and schemes of tax avoidance and make recommendations regarding ways to address these issues.
• Timeously communicate top down policy and associated single practice area modification, objective achievement progress and critical success factors to impacted stakeholders.
• Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; implementing best practice solutions.
• Provide periodic reports on performance against plan & progress on short-term initiatives & use to realign tactical plan and objectives appropriately.
• Act as the bottom-line drivers of tactical implementation within the context of business unit excellence and performance improvement.
• Direct, control, coordinate and optimise budgeted resources to meet specific objectives and deliver agreed results and productivity requirements.
• Ensure the development and implementation of a practice in alignment with operational policy and procedural frameworks.
• Implement tactical strategy and delivery plans through the development of operational activities, ensuring the achievement of operational targets.
• Use the insights gained through integrated business reports to measure success & realign tactical strategy implementation objectives appropriately.
• Plan for handling work outputs, pull together interdependent activities & specify priorities, standards & procedures to ensure tactical implementation.
• Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, policies and procedures, and execute the implementation of change and innovation initiated by the organisation.

Governance

• Implement governance, risk and compliance policy in own practice area to identify and manage governance and risk exposure liability.
• Manage and or advise on the translation and application of policy in a specific functional area.

People

• Plan & implement enhanced organisational efficiency by identifying and addressing development requirements & providing tools for people resources.
• Create a positive work climate & culture to energise employees & give meaning to work, minimise work disruption and maximise employee productivity.
• Translate performance expectations into specific metrics and goals to identify and provide effective services, solve problems and achieve objectives.
• Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.

Finance

• Plan & implement enhanced organisational efficiency by identifying and addressing development requirements & providing tools for people resources.
• Create a positive work climate & culture to energise employees & give meaning to work, minimise work disruption and maximise employee productivity.
• Translate performance expectations into specific metrics and goals to identify and provide effective services, solve problems and achieve objectives.

Client

• Plan & implement enhanced organisational efficiency by identifying and addressing development requirements & providing tools for people resources.
• Create a positive work climate & culture to energise employees & give meaning to work, minimise work disruption and maximise employee productivity.
• Translate performance expectations into specific metrics and goals to identify and provide effective services, solve problems and achieve objectives.

Behavioural competencies

• Fairness and Transparency
• Accountability
• Honesty and Integrity
• Developing Others
• Trust
• Respect
• Problem Solving and Analysis
• Conceptual Thinking
• Championing the Mandate
• Influencing others
• Mobilising others
• Driving Excellence
• Leveraging Diversity
• Commitment to Continuous Learning
• Organisational Awareness
• Building Sustainability

Technical competencies

• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Tax Knowledge
• Search and Seizure
• Managerial Budgeting
• Investigative Skills
• Effective Business Communication
• Planning, Management and Measurement
• Problem Analysis and Judgement
• Reporting
• Decisiveness
• Customs Knowledge
• Efficiency improvement
• Criminal Investigation
• Expert witness

Compliance Competency

• GOC Confidential
• Collection and preservation of evidence and the chain of custody (Investigations)
• Interviewing and interrogation (Investigations)
• Testify in formal and criminal proceedings
• Investigative reporting

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.