Tax and Customs Authority

Tax and customs compliance risk is the subject of the Strategic Intelligence Specialist job at the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority in Riyadh, where the work centers on the authority’s risk register and the frameworks used to treat compliance risks. Data for testing risk hypotheses comes partly from government bodies such as MCI, SASO and SAGIA.

About the strategic intelligence specialist job in Riyadh

The specialist works independently on defined tasks but under close supervision, researching and analyzing information, drafting reports and joining specific meetings. The work follows compliance risk from first assessment through strategy development to follow-up on how the strategy is implemented.

Responsibilities

• Carrying out research and benchmark studies on international practice in tax and customs risk treatment, pointing out areas to improve
• Tracking regulatory updates with the Legal function, assessing their effect on internal policies and operations, and updating compliance frameworks to match
• Collecting data from internal stakeholders and government entities for risk hypothesis testing, and aligning frameworks with the Enterprise Risk Management function
• Scoring flagged threats by likelihood and impact, analyzing root causes of past non-compliance, and building risk models and treatment methods for newly found risks
• Analyzing business processes for operational compliance risks and drafting a preliminary risk profile that ranks the top risks by severity
• Developing and updating risk treatments, including frameworks, methodology and measurement guidelines, and keeping the risk register current with owners, categories, priorities and control effectiveness
• Helping shape the compliance risk strategy, checking that it is built into ZATCA’s operation plans, and following up mitigation plans and misalignment cases
• Preparing periodic reports on ZATCA’s compliance risk status, the effect of mitigation actions and the impact, likelihood and velocity of risks

Requirements

• Developing-level competence in taxpayer risk management, assessment, identification and categorization
• Developing-level competence in taxpayer compliance tactical intelligence, corporate governance and compliance, and fact-based recommendations

How to apply

Applications go through the ZATCA careers portal the application button below.