15 Oct
Multilead Consulting Services
Pretoria
A company based in Woodmead has a position for a Senior Specialist : Audit
salary is negotiable
The Senior specialist's main responsibilities are to detect and identify tax avoidance schemes and/or structures and/or legislative loopholes through analysing the submitted tax returns for Trusts and HNWIs by scrutinising financial journals, press reports and the JSE's SENS announcements.
A thorough and deep understanding of the taxation of trusts and trust law is a prerequisite coupled with the taxation of cross border transactions.
The incumbent must have a deep understanding of both local and foreign trusts.
To provide expert advise and guidance and/or execute highly complex and highly specialised audits for High Wealth Individuals.
Plan, conduct and manage highly complex risk-based audits to ensure compliance with relevant acts.
• Identify tax gaps and evasion schemes involving complex matters and suggest potential solutions to minimize tax risks.
• Manage quality in planning, execution and finalisation of audits.
• Conduct research into local & international practices & trends in order to identify best practice & the most practical business solutions & options.
• Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to tax law, specialist systems, procedures, policies and practices.
• Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
• Develop multiple practices in alignment with operational policy and procedural frameworks, supporting tactical development and excellence.
• Draw on own technical or professional expertise,
knowledge & experience to identify & recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
• Influence and communicate across business areas impacted by practice area to minimise resistance and ensure on-boarding of new thinking.
• Integrate business information, compare, analyse & produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies & inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
• Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy development and optimisation of practises, processes & systems across an internal value chain.
• Plan for value-added, continuous multiple practice and system improvement optimisation to deliver on objectives and to enhance tactical excellence.
• Proactively identify interconnected problems,
determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; developing best practice solutions.
• Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice areas and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
• Translate top down policy, apply modification in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders
Governance
• Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies in own practice areas to identify and manage risk exposure liability.
People
• Enable a culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared between team members.
• Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership in area of expertise
• Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.
Finance
• Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.
Client
• Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
• Develop & ensure implementation of own practices to build delivery excellence, encouraging others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.
• Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
Relevant Honours / Postgraduate Diploma in Tax, Accounting, Auditing (NQF 8) AND 10-12 years' experience in a Tax and audit environment, of which 3-4 years ideally at specialist level,
OR
Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma in Tax, Accounting, Auditing (NQF 7) AND 12 - 15 years experience in a Tax and audit environment, of which 3-4 years ideally at specialist level.
Minimum Functional Requirements
CA(SA), CFA, Masters in Tax, MCom, H Dip(tax) with extensive experience in a specialist audit/legal environment.
Negotiable
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📍 Pretoria