South African Revenue Service (SARS)
Job Title: Legal Debt Collector (Tax) – Fixed Term Contract
Position Reports to: Operations Manager: Debt Management
Division: Taxpayer Services
Location: National
Advert Closing Date: 16 January 2026
About the Position
SARS is seeking to employ highly skilled, experienced, results driven, self-motivated Legal Debt collectors with sound judgement and strong business acumen who will contribute towards our higher purpose and service orientation. The successful candidates will need to have experience in planning, managing, and monitoring the implementation of debt collection activities and end-to-end processes, by managing the operational activities of the team and ensure that the team meets its target within the set quality, turnaround time and productivity norms, to deliver on approved operational plans and to continuously enhance service delivery. The successful candidates will need to have experience and responsible for Final Demand procedures, Court Judgements, Warrant of Execution, and Placing of Liens, Personal liability, interpretation of interpleader notices, Business Rescue processes and the value chain of debt recovery procedures.
Job Purpose
To make non-compliance hard and costly by ensuring that there is consequence for none payment of Debt.
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
Relevant National Diploma / Advanced Certificate (NQF 6) in Credit management/Legal/Finance/ AND 2-3 years Debt Collection experience, or 2-3 experience in Commerce environment, of which at least 1-2 years at a knowledge worker level.
Articles would be advantageous.
Minimum Functional Requirements
Legal aspects of collections (Sequestrations, Liquidations, etc) and/or In-depth Analysis of Financial Statements (including ratio analysis and interpretation).