APAC Corporate Tax Compliance Director

The mandate

The Regional Director will own the quality and governance of corporate income-tax compliance across APAC while preserving local statutory responsibility. The job requires a clear view of which obligations are ready, which positions depend on unresolved judgment and where service models create concealed rework. Regional consistency must improve control without treating unlike legal requirements as process exceptions.

The first four months will validate the jurisdictional obligation population, assess local capability and provider arrangements, and establish a risk-ranked review method. The Director will identify recurring late information, computation adjustments, weak sign-off and differences between returns, payments and tax provision. Root causes will drive the operating model rather than a preference for centralisation.

Authority covers regional compliance standards, service-level approval, quality gates, remediation priority and escalation within delegation. Local authorised officers retain filing signatures and country technical positions; global policy owners approve precedent matters. The Director may govern provider performance but cannot replace a provider or change material contracts without the appropriate commercial approval.

By month twelve, each jurisdiction should operate a reliable forward calendar, evidenced filing-readiness test and controlled return-to-provision process. Executives should see exposure and recurrence rather than colour-coded activity, and country tax leaders should be able to challenge providers and signatories with a common standard adapted to local law.

What you will own

• Verify the APAC corporate-tax obligation population across entities, permanent establishments, returns, instalments, elections and information reports.
• Establish filing-readiness gates covering source completeness, technical review, computation approval, payment, signature and submission evidence.
• Segment jurisdictions by risk, judgment and capability to decide the appropriate local, regional, provider or enhanced-review model.
• Reconcile material return positions to provision, payments and prior-period adjustments, escalating repeated causes instead of normalising true-ups.
• Govern external providers through accuracy, evidence, rework, issue anticipation, knowledge transfer and responsible internal acceptance.
• Direct remediation of missed ownership, weak maker-checker review and uncontrolled workpapers according to statutory and financial consequence.
• Present quarterly regional compliance risk by exposure, deadline, evidence quality, recurrence and decision required.
• Develop country leaders through calibrated return reviews, cross-market cases and delegated decisions under a documented authority matrix.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 17 years in direct-tax compliance, including Regional Director responsibility across seven or more APAC jurisdictions.
• A regional operating model you changed after evidence showed centralisation or outsourcing would weaken a local obligation.
• Experience with diverse return, payment, withholding, tax-audit and provision-to-return requirements across APAC legal systems.
• A provider-governance case where on-time delivery concealed material rework or unsupported positions and how you corrected it.
• Evidence of designing risk-based review depth rather than applying identical effort to every jurisdiction and filing.
• Ability to protect local signature accountability while enforcing regional evidence and escalation standards.
• A record of developing country tax leaders able to make and defend decisions without routine central rescue.

Working terms and boundaries

• During this continuing full-time appointment, year-one assessment occurs after the population is proved, the operating model is authorised and a complete regional cycle has run.
• Regional standards and delegated readiness decisions sit with the role; country signatures and precedent policy remain separately owned.
• Annual compensation includes fixed pay, target incentive and conditional restricted-share awards under ordinary governance.
• Hybrid attendance includes Hong Kong governance and planned market reviews where evidence or capability cannot be tested remotely.
• Year-one completion requires controlled calendars, measurable quality, reconciled returns, governed providers and capable country leaders.

Application

Applications for this mandate are received in one way only: through the India Board Terminal's application process. It is automated end to end. Your Executive Passport travels to the mandate holder in its confidential form, your answers to the three questions below are read before anything else in your file, and every stage that follows is recorded on your applications page.

There is no address to write to and no intermediary to call. The mandate holder reads what the Terminal delivers and nothing else, which is what keeps the process the same for every applicant and keeps your name out of it until you release it. Applications close on 5 October 2026. Mandate reference TAX-PER-2026-HKG-49.