Compliance Auditor

Job Description:

To perform all other functions relating to Assessment Maintenance including, but not limited to: issuing queries and revising assessments, tax directives, tax clearances, ceased to be resident requests, requests for remission of administrative penalties and underestimation of provisional tax penalties, manual intervention on certain original assessments to be raised, follow-ups on SARS core tax systems.

Job Responsibilities:

• Be informed on related Acts, Legislation and Regulations that might impact own work.
• Take accountability for delivery of contracted work outputs within agreed parameters, quality standards and client service targets.
• Be observant and engage on possible violations of regulation, policies, SOPs, and standards of conduct and escalate where necessary.
• Resolve, explain, interpret, and analyse correctness and make decisions to allow, disallow or partially allow requests for remissions and disputes.
• Resolve, explain, interpret, and analyse correctness and make decisions to revise assessments.
• Be observant and engage on possible violations of procedures and standards of conduct and escalate where necessary.

Job Requirements:

• Relevant [Auditing, Accounting and Taxation] National Diploma or Advanced Certificate (NQF6) and 2-3 years’ experience in a similar environment [Tax Auditing or Assessment Maintenance], of which 1-2 years at knowledge worker level