Public Tax Transparency Governance Director

The mandate

The committee seeks an independent voice on whether public tax transparency is accurate, reconcilable and appropriately contextualised without becoming advocacy. The standing question is how much explanation helps readers understand tax outcomes while protecting confidential information and preserving consistency with filings, financial statements, country-by-country data and accepted risk governance.

Across nine months, the adviser will hold a fortnightly evidence session, monthly sponsor review and one scheduled committee discussion. Early work tests governance, source consistency and materiality; later sessions challenge draft disclosures and response protocols; the final phase assesses whether internal leaders can maintain truthful, balanced reporting as facts and external expectations change.

The adviser has no line authority, publication approval, drafting ownership or right to direct tax positions. The Director can question evidence, identify inconsistency, recommend additional context and advise that material is not decision-ready. Management authors and verifies; legal and authorised governance approve release.

Public-policy duties, retained advice, investments and board appointments capable of influencing an outside observer's view of independence must be declared. When protections would not be credible, the Director steps away from the relevant paper. Any continuation needs a new governance question; communications execution is never implied.

What you will own

• Test proposed tax disclosures against financial statements, filed positions, country-by-country records, governance decisions and controlled source data.
• Challenge explanations of effective rates, cash taxes, disputes, incentives and jurisdictional presence for factual completeness and balanced context.
• Shape materiality rules that distinguish decision-useful transparency from data volume that invites misleading comparison.
• Review reconciliations and definitions so repeated measures retain consistent perimeter, period, currency and basis.
• Press management to separate fact, estimate, policy commitment, aspiration and legal constraint in public language.
• Facilitate two mock stakeholder challenges involving apparent rate anomalies, low-tax outcomes or a changed controversy position.
• Recommend a correction and escalation protocol for post-publication errors, changed facts and conflicting external statements.
• Deliver a closing opinion on evidence quality, governance independence and unresolved transparency risks.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 18 years in tax leadership, tax reporting or governance, including direct work with public tax transparency and board review.
• A public tax statement you recommended changing because it was technically true but materially incomplete or misleading.
• Ability to reconcile effective rate, cash tax, country reporting, financial statements and controversy without treating unlike bases as identical.
• Evidence of balancing understandable context with confidentiality, legal and competitive constraints.
• Experience challenging communications and tax leaders while leaving drafting and release authority visibly with management.
• A conflict profile appropriate for sensitive public-policy and governance discussions.
• Availability for two days a week and all nine Oslo committee reviews.

Working terms and boundaries

• The retainer covers two days a week, fortnightly evidence sessions and one board or committee review each month.
• The adviser has no line authority and cannot draft as management, approve publication, direct tax positions or speak externally.
• Communications execution, assurance opinions, lobbying and filing work are excluded unless separately authorised.
• Conflicts are refreshed before restricted drafts are provided, with recusal documented through the sponsor.
• Closure consists of an evidence-governance opinion and transfer session; renewal requires a different standing question.

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 7 October 2026. Mandate reference TAX-ADV-2026-OSL-51.