Job Purpose
Centralised Litigation Unit prepares for litigation in the Higher Courts for various disputes, including but not limited to only those focusing on tax liability. The function involves the entire scope of litigation services, from researching legal and tax principles, analysing the merits of SARS position, drafting various court documents, preparing deponents, and possibly appearing in court. The members of Centralised Litigation Unit therefore must have a right of appearance
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
Bachelor of Laws(LLB) AND 8-10 years' experience in a litigation or similar environment.
Admission as Attorney /or Registered Advocate.
Minimum Functional Requirements
Job Outputs:
Process
Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and associated area's practice.
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 and experience to identify and recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
Finalise legal matters by identifying facts, accessing relevant sources, analysis, application, advice and implementation of the course of action.
Identify tax and customs loopholes and potential risk and recommend legal interventions in an eff ort to close the tax gap.
Integrate business information, compare, analyse and produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes and systems across an internal value chain.
Plan for value-added, continuous practice and system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence.
Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fi t alternatives, best practice implementation solutions.
Translate top-down policy in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders
Governance
Develop and/or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure liability.
People
Drive own performance in order to achieve work outputs in line with required response time, quality and service delivery standards.
Integrate new knowledge 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.
Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
Behavioural competencies
Accountability
Adaptability
Analytical Thinking
Attention to Detail
Commitment to continuous learning
Masters Knowledge in Technical affairs
Fairness and Transparency
Honesty and Integrity
Organisational Awareness
Respect
Trust
Technical competencies
Business Knowledge
Data Collection and Analysis
Efficiency Improvement
Functional Policies and Procedures
Legal Advisory and interpretation
Legal Compliance
Legal Knowledge and knowledge of ethics
Legal Writing Skills
Reporting
Deadline:4th May,2026