SOUTH AFRICAN REVENUE SERVICES (SARS) VACANCIES

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SENIOR SPECIALIST: SYSTEMS- (ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS CONSULTANT)X2 (FIXED TERM CONTRACT) 
Position Reports to: Area Head: Tax Products & Processes           
Division: Technology & Solutions Delivery – Business Relations
Location: Head Office Pretoria
Advert Closing Date: 28 February 2026
 
About the Position
Are you passionate about innovation, driven by curiosity, and thrive on solving complex challenges? Do you have an eye for detail and a hunger to make a meaningful impact? This is more than a job. It’s a chance to do purposeful work that leaves a lasting footprint. Ready to disrupt the status quo? If that sounds like you, keep on reading.
SARS is on the lookout for a forward-thinking Senior Specialist ready to shape the future of business technology. We're searching for someone with sharp analytical instincts, natural influence, and a proven track record of bringing bold ideas to life, from concept through to execution.
In this role, you won’t just keep up with change, you'll lead it. You’ll collaborate across the organisation to craft tailored, cutting-edge solutions that are robust, scalable, and future-ready. Whether working independently or as part of a high-powered team, your ability to design, build, and implement transformative technology will be key.
You'll join a vibrant, multidisciplinary team of experts who think big and move fast. You’ll interact with senior leaders, contribute to strategic conversations, and deliver meaningful results using agile principles and innovative thinking.
 
Job Purpose
To champion impactful, future-ready technology solutions by delivering sharp analytical insights, strategic design thinking, and expert guidance that drive innovation. You’ll play a key role in shaping and aligning new and existing systems and related processes with evolving best practices, governance standards, and modernisation goals. By advocating thoughtful, scalable design, you’ll ensure every solution is fit-for-purpose and built to enable lasting transformation across the enterprise
 
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
Relevant bachelor’s degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) Taxation, Commerce, Business, or ICT/IT AND 8-10 years' experience in business technology or operations environment, of which 3-4 years’ ideally at operational specialist level.
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Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years’ experience in Business Systems or Operational Environment.
 
Minimum Functional Requirements

• IT Certification/s 

 
Job Outputs:
 
Process

• Apply processes to improve data validation across service delivery systems in line with operational targets
• Communicate a meaningful operational context that promotes the implementation of best practice, operational efficiency and client service delivery.
• Design data extracts for use by the organisation or business units for the purpose of providing information customized to meet specific needs.
• Check completeness, validity, relevance, and corrective actions where necessary, in order to maintain set standards and achieve set objectives.
• Communicate a meaningful operational context that promotes the implementation of best practice, operational efficiency, and client service delivery.
• Apply and utilise systems in a manner that ensures accurate processing of information that contributes to efficient and effective completion of tasks.
• 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

• 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 the effective 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

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

 
Technical competencies

• Reporting and Interpretation
• System Thinking
• Application Development and Maintenance
• Database Design and Management
• IT Knowledge
• Business Knowledge
• Efficiency improvement

 
Compliance Competency

• Enterprise Architecture (IT) - Familiar with
•  ICT Audit (IT) - Familiar with
• Database Architecture (IT) Familiar with
• Application & Exploitation (IT) Expert in
• Networking & Comm (IT) Prof in
• Structured Reviews (IT) Proficient in
• GOC Confidential

 
 
Employment Equity
The Employment Equity policy of SARS will be considered as part of the recruitment and selection process and Persons with Disabilities are encouraged to apply. Successful candidates will be required to undertake an oath of secrecy, pre-employment screening, case study, pre-assessment, psychometric assessment and or vetting, and a declaration of private interest. The appointment is also subject to appropriate reference(s) and security clearance where applicable.
 
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SPECIALIST: BUSINESS SYSTEMS (CUSTOMS & EXCISE) FIXED TERM CONTRACT 1 
Position Reports to: Manager: Business Relations 
Division:  Strategy Enab & Modernisation 
Location: Head Office Pretoria
Advert Closing Date:  28 February 2026
 
About the Position
SARS is seeking an experienced specialist with over ten years of expertise in Customs & Excise, from both functional and systems perspectives. This position requires analytical design thinking input, along with exceptional technical communication and collaboration skills, to provide advice and guidance. The goal is to ensure that all current and future technology solutions are designed practically. This will be achieved by meticulously evaluating all modernisation and enhancement initiatives against a comprehensive and continuously evolving set of software design life cycle principles, methodologies, governance standards, and protocols.
 
Job Purpose
To offer expertise, guidance, and support for business systems to develop operational plans and improve service delivery processes, aiming to consistently enhance service quality.  The specialist will also be involved in the various Customs and Excise modernisation projects and play an integral part in the JAD session
 
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Business/ Systems Analysis AND 5-7 years' experience within an Information Technology environment with a Business/Systems Analysis or Consulting background, of which 5years were spent as a Functional/Technical Business or Systems Analyst in the Customs and Excise environment.
OR
Senior Certificate (NQF 4) and relevant Business Analysis / Information Technology Qualification(s) / Certification(s), and 10 years' experience within an Information Technology environment with a Business/Systems Analysis or Consulting background.
 
Job Outputs:
Process

• Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making and the identification of improvement opportunities.
• Apply practical and applied knowledge and act authoritatively on methods, systems and procedures to identify trends and potential risks.
• Communication of situational interpretation and judgement of work outputs and queries in area of specialisation.
• Correctly apply policies, practices, standards, procedures and legislation in the delivery of work outputs.
• 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.
• Plan for value-added process improvements, initiatives and services to deliver on operational strategy and objectives.
• 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.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers, SARS role players and third parties to achieve predefined objectives.

 
Governance

• Implement and provide input into the development of governance, compliance, integrity and ethics processes within area of specialisation.
• Ensure that completed work adhere to relevant policies, procedures, governance and legislative requirements and report on deviations & discrepancies.

 
People

• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers and team members to achieve predefined objectives.
• Search for, integrate and share new knowledge attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.

 
Finance

• Adhere to organisational policies and procedures to ensure cost effectiveness and reduction of financial costs.

 
Client

• Contribute to a culture of service excellence, which builds positive relationships and provides opportunity for feedback and exceptional service.
• Provide authoritative, specialist services, expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.

 
Behavioural competencies

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

 
Technical competencies

• Business IT Systems 
• Business Knowledge 
• Computer Literacy 
• Efficiency improvement  
• Functional Policies and Procedures 
• IT Strategy and Planning 
• Reporting
• Systems thinking

 
Compliance Competency

• GOC Confidential

 
 
Employment Equity
The Employment Equity policy of SARS will be considered as part of the recruitment and selection process and Persons with Disabilities are encouraged to apply. Successful candidates will be required to undertake an oath of secrecy, pre-employment screening, case study, pre-assessment, psychometric assessment and or vetting, and a declaration of private interest. The appointment is also subject to appropriate reference(s) and security clearance where applicable. 
 
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​DIGITAL FRAUD INVESTIGATOR X 1
Position Reports to:  Manager: Digital Fraud Detection & Resolution       
Division: Taxpayer Engagement         
National Operations & Enabling: Digital Fraud
Location: Pretoria
Advert Closing Date: 26 February 2026
 
About the Position
SARS has seen an increase in the number of attempts to abuse taxpayer accounts through identity theft. This is not unexpected as there has been an increase in cybercrime globally but also since SARS has expanded our engagements with our taxpayers to be increasingly on a digital level – in terms of digital documentation but also virtual face to face engagements, while we have decreased our human interaction at branches. With the move of SARS to an increased digital organisation, it is important for the business to adjust to the increased use of technology that facilitate tax processes. With the creation of the Digital Fraud Unit, there is a distinct focus on the monitoring, prevention and investigation of the manipulation of SARS digital platforms to misrepresent the actual taxpayer and commit fraud and or obtain access to information that could be used for other nefarious purposes. The candidate will play an integral part in the investigative function of the unit and will actively be responsible to perform the end-to-end investigation function.
 
Job Purpose
The purpose of this role will be to investigate fraud related to taxpayer accounts that have been compromised. Due to the digital nature of the fraud, the role will be required to work with large sets of data and utilise data analysis skills to acquire data from the different SARS platforms, analyse, preserve and report on analysis that will withstand legal scrutiny.
 
Education and Experience
Relevant National Diploma / Advanced Certificate (NQF 6) in Data Analysis/ Forensics/ Investigations AND 5-7 years' experience in a data analysis / fraud / tax / investigations environment, of which 2-3 years ideally at functional specialist level
 
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 10 years related experience in data analysis / fraud / tax / investigations.
 
Job Outputs:
 
Process

• To identify relevant applicable legislation and/or policies adhering to SOPs.
• To assess the allegation from the digital fraud case and determine the data to be downloaded from internal system to start the investigation.
• Collaborate with other internal stakeholders regarding information to be used for the investigation.
• Conduct research on digital fraud related issues to keep abreast with the environment and compile report thereof.
• To process and analyse evidential files as per internal processes and ensure that the case is court ready.
• To report on the investigation findings and attend to any additional work required.
• Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making and the identification of improvement opportunities.
• Provide specialist input through the investigation of opportunities for operational and process product and risk optimisation.
• Correctly apply policies, practices, standards, procedures and legislation in the delivery of work outputs.
• Apply practical and applied knowledge and act authoritatively on methods, systems and procedures to identify trends and potential risks.
• Communication of situational interpretation and judgement of work outputs and queries in area of specialisation.
• Draw on own knowledge and experience to diagnose symptoms, causes and possible effects 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.
• Plan for value-added process improvements, initiatives and services to deliver on operational strategy and objectives.
• Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making and the identification of improvement opportunities.

 
Governance

• Implement and provide input into the development of governance, compliance, integrity and ethics processes within area of specialisation.

 
People

• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with peers and team members to achieve predefined objectives.
• Search for, integrate and share new knowledge attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.

 
Finance

• Adhere to organisational policies and procedures to ensure cost effectiveness and reduction of financial costs.

 
Client

• Liaise with informers and possible witnesses to gather information in connection with tax evasion.
• Contribute to a culture of service excellence, which builds positive relationships and provides opportunity for feedback and exceptional service.
• Provide authoritative, specialist services, expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.

 
Behavioural competencies

• Accountability (V)
• Analytical Thinking
• Attention to Detail
• Commitment to Continuous Learning
• Conceptual Ability
• Fairness and Transparency (V)
• Honesty and Integrity (V)
• Problem Solving and Analysis
• Respect (V)
• Trust (V)

 
Technical competencies

• Collection and preservation of evidence and the chain of custody (Investigations)
• Data analysis skill to analyse data
• Efficiency improvement
• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Interviewing and interrogation (Investigations)
• Investigative reporting
• Investigative Skills
• Testify in formal and criminal proceedings when required

 
Compliance Competency 

• GOC    Confidential

 
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