International Tax Forecasting and Effective Rate Director

The mandate

The Director will own the forward view of tax expense and cash tax across jurisdictions, turning technical consequences into a disciplined component of enterprise forecasting. The seat must explain why the effective rate moves, which assumptions management controls and where legal or tax uncertainty prevents false precision. Its purpose is decision support grounded in tax law and accounting, not a central overlay that masks weak local forecasts.

During the first quarter, the leader will map rate and cash drivers, trace forecast sources and distinguish recurring structural effects from discrete events. Models must connect pretax profit, jurisdictional mix, enacted rates, losses, credits, withholding, Pillar Two effects, uncertain positions and planned cash payments without double counting or mixing recognition bases.

The Director may set tax-forecast standards, return submissions lacking support, approve central assumptions within delegation and require scenario analysis for material uncertainty. Operating forecasts remain owned by business finance; tax technical positions remain with their authorised owners; accounting recognition stays subject to financial-reporting governance. This role makes the interfaces coherent and visible.

After twelve months, management should receive a range-based tax outlook whose changes can be traced to named drivers and decisions. Forecast-to-actual variance must feed process improvement, cash and expense views must reconcile despite different timing, and regional tax teams must be able to challenge and explain their forecasts under a common method.

What you will own

• Define a global tax-forecast driver tree connecting jurisdictional earnings, rates, permanent items, credits, losses, withholding, minimum tax and cash timing.
• Establish source and approval rules for operating profit, legal changes, transaction assumptions, uncertain positions and discretionary tax actions.
• Build an effective-rate bridge that distinguishes structural, mix, discrete, forecast and methodology movements across reporting periods.
• Introduce scenarios with probability or confidence language appropriate to the evidence, avoiding unsupported single-point tax outcomes.
• Reconcile expense, balance-sheet and cash-tax forecasts through explicit timing and recognition bridges rather than unexplained plug values.
• Direct root-cause reviews of material forecast misses and assign changes to data, technical interpretation, model logic or operating assumption owners.
• Present tax choices through cash, earnings, risk, reversibility and governance lenses so leadership can compare alternatives transparently.
• Develop regional forecasting capability through standards, challenge clinics, calibration cases and delegated ownership of routine assumptions.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 16 years in international tax, tax accounting or tax FP&A, including Director-level ownership of global effective-rate and cash-tax forecasting.
• A driver-based tax forecast you designed, with evidence that it changed a planning, financing or timing decision.
• Strong command of current and deferred tax, jurisdictional profit mix, credits, losses, withholding, uncertain positions and global minimum-tax interaction.
• Evidence of reconciling cash-tax and tax-expense views without forcing economically different measures into artificial agreement.
• A material forecast miss you diagnosed to its true source and the control or model decision that prevented recurrence.
• Experience challenging business forecasts while leaving operational ownership with finance and technical conclusions with tax authorities.
• Ability to communicate ranges, dependencies and decision triggers to executives without simplifying away material uncertainty.

Working terms and boundaries

• This permanent full-time appointment has first-year reviews after model baseline, two forecast cycles and annual planning integration.
• The Director owns tax-forecast method and challenge; operating profit assumptions, reserved tax positions and reporting recognition remain separately approved.
• Annual compensation includes fixed pay, target bonus and conditional performance shares governed by ordinary vesting and performance conditions.
• Hybrid work will cluster around planning, close and executive scenario sessions, with travel driven by material assumption ownership.
• Year-one success requires a reconciled driver model, explainable variance, integrated cash and expense views, documented authority and capable regional owners.

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-MEX-17.