SARS is looking for a highly skilled, experienced, results driven, self-directed specialist to conduct in depth financial analysis and assessment, provide guidance and expert advice on multiple cases with a project environment.
Job Purpose
To conduct in depth financial analysis and assessment and provide guidance and expert advice on cases within a project environment.
Education and experience
Relevant Bachelor’s Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) AND 8-10 years’ experience within the Debt Management environment, of which 3-4 years ideally at operational specialist level, or alternatively Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years related experience
Alternatively
Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years related experience
Job Objectives
Outputs
- To monitor, track and control the effectiveness of query resolution.
- Facilitate, analyse and review allocated documents within the set timeframes.
- Provide in depth financial support to team members to enable sound decision making.
- Provide in depth financial interrogation and analysis on the income streams and forecast within Business Rescue plans.
- Analyse all financial statements to determine the viability of a business/individual.
- Conduct risk analysis to determine the impact on the organisation.
- Obtain and analyse the required information/ evidence in terms of financial requirements, policies and procedures.
- To negotiate and convert outstanding debt into bankable revenue, utilising negotiation and communication skills and related, risk, financial and legal expertise in the management of the client relationships.
- To negotiate, structure the collection of outstanding debt and ensure that outstanding debt is paid timeously
- Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
- 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.
- 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.
- Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes & systems across an internal value chain.
- 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.
- Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice area and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
Governance
- Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure liability.
People
- Maintain professional interaction and ensure ethical dealings with clients at all times by constantly building customer relationships.
- Enable a culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared between team members.
- Drive own performance & provide specialist support & advice to achieve specified objectives against required targets, deadlines and quality standards.
- 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
- Adhere to specified standards, policies and procedures to prevent wastage on resources and escalate associated risk.
- 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 & Transparency
- Analytical Thinking
- Accountability
- Assertiveness
- Conceptual Ability
- Stakeholder Engagement and Management
- Resilience
- Problem solving capability
- Honesty & Integrity
- Attention to Detail
- Trust
- Respect
- Persuading and Influencing
- Strategic impact
- Customer Relationship Management
- Commitment to Continuous Learning
- Organisational Awareness
- Building Sustainability
Technical Competencies
- Functional Policies and Procedures
- Decisiveness
- Reporting
- Financial Analysis
- Tax Knowledge
- Tax Compliance Auditing
- Negotiating skills
- Dispute Resolution
- Efficiency improvement
- Effective Business Communication
- Business Knowledge
- Debt Management
- Risk Identification