Specialist: Legal and Domestic

Our client a leading organization firm is seeking a Specialist: Legal and Domestic (Large Business International)to join their team in Woodmead Johannesburg. They offer stability, growth, attractive salary along with great benefits and a great working environment.

Job Purpose

To provide a comprehensive legal or ancillary service by analysing/diagnosing the problem, identifying risks and enabling resolution in direct taxes.

Education and Experience
- Relevant Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Law/ Advanced Diploma in Taxation (NQF 7) AND 8-10 years' Direct Taxes advisory experience, of which 3-4 years ideally at operational specialist level.

Job Outputs:
Process
- Conduct assessments and use information to advise, make recommendations and facilitate improvement
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes & systems across an internal value chain

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

Finance
- Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation

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

Behavioural competencies
- Fairness and Transparency
- Analytical Thinking
- Accountability
- Attention to Detail
- Conceptual Ability
- Honesty and Integrity
- Trust
- Respect
- Honesty and Integrity
- Problem Solving and Analysis
- Attention to Detail
- Commitment to Continuous Learning
- Organisational Awareness
- Building Sustainability

Technical competencies
- Functional Policies and Procedures
- Reporting
- Business Knowledge
- Efficiency improvement
- Legal Advisory and Interpretation
- Legal Knowledge and knowledge of ethics
- Legal Compliance
- Risk Identification
- Dispute Resolution