Specialist: Audit

Our Client a leading organization is seeking 2 Specialist: Audit (International Tax) to join their team in Woodmead north. They offer stability, growth, excellent salary along with excellent benefits and a great working environment.

About the Position

An exciting opportunity is available for a forward thinking, self-motivated and dynamic specialist to ensure effectiveness of audit operations across multi tax types, ensuring practice integration and operational implementation through the achievement of International Tax Audit objectives in Large Business & International. This well-seasoned, proactive and energetic applicant will be required to take initiative and make quick decisions in order to meet organisational requirements.

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 in International Tax Audits, understanding the risk implications across other tax types, in compliance with all legislative requirements.

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
- Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) AND 8-10 years' in International Tax experience, of which 3-4 years ideally at operational specialist level.

Job Outputs:
Process
- Be observant and engage on possible violations of procedures and standards of conduct and escalate where necessary.
- Effectively utilise resources allocated to the job in order to perform contracted work outputs and report on and escalate any shortfalls.
- Plan and conduct multiple tax audits on a risk profile basis to ensure compliance to the relevant acts.
- Lead, plan and conduct full scope (integrated) audits to ensure compliance and report on findings and recommendations.
- Plan and organize own work tasks within area of work.
- Execute specialist input through investigation &opportunities within the product process including risk concern.
- Provide specialist input through the investigation of opportunities for operational and process product and risk optimisation.
- Plan for value-added process improvements, initiatives and services to deliver on operational strategy and objectives.
- Draw on own knowledge and experience to diagnose symptoms, causes and possible effects in order to solve emerging problems.
- Initiate process and procedural change, implement the change and provide guidelines and support related to new requirements as a result of the change.
- Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making and the identification of improvement opportunities.
- Communication of situational interpretation and judgement of work outputs and queries in area of specialization.

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
- Conceptual Thinking
- Drive for Results
- 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