Global Direct Tax Calendar and Evidence Model Director

The mandate

This project will create one controlled direct-tax obligations calendar and evidence model that can be operated across jurisdictions without losing local legal accountability. The defined problem is that deadlines, task completion and supporting records are tracked through different conventions, preventing leadership from knowing whether an obligation is genuinely ready, merely marked complete or dependent on an unresolved tax judgment.

Milestone one, due in week five, is a verified obligations catalogue covering corporate returns, payments, elections, withholding, information reports and tax-accounting dependencies. Milestone two, due at the end of month three, is the future-state data model, workflow, authority map and evidence standard, approved for a representative pilot group.

Milestone three, at month five, is a live pilot through one obligations wave with defects classified, corrected and retested. The fourth milestone is an operating handbook, migrated forward calendar, training evidence, control report and residual-risk register. The Head of Tax Operations accepts functional completeness; the designated finance-control owner accepts evidence integrity and reconciliation.

The client will supply existing trackers, filed records, entity and jurisdiction lists, access to local owners and a small implementation team. Acceptance requires complete pilot coverage, no unresolved critical deadline or evidence defects, tested escalation and named ownership for future maintenance. Tax-return preparation, technical position redesign, software procurement and historical controversy remediation are excluded.

What you will own

• Reconcile the full population of direct-tax obligations to entity, jurisdiction, period, legal due date, internal due date, dependencies and authorised signatory.
• Define readiness states that distinguish data received, computation reviewed, position approved, filing authorised, submission evidenced and payment reconciled.
• Design an evidence index with retention rules, source ownership, version control and links between calculation, approval, receipt and accounting consequence.
• Establish escalation logic based on statutory consequence, financial exposure, dependency failure and remaining decision lead time.
• Migrate a representative future calendar without carrying duplicate, obsolete or ownerless obligations into the controlled model.
• Run the pilot through a live wave, sample end-to-end evidence and retest defects before declaring the workflow usable.
• Train central and local owners through role-based simulations including late data, disputed position and absent-signatory scenarios.
• Deliver the accepted model, controlled data dictionary, governance record, open-risk schedule and maintenance protocol at project close.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 15 years in direct-tax compliance operations, including Director-level design of a multi-jurisdiction obligations or evidence-management model.
• A completed calendar transformation where you reconciled the task population, eliminated false completion and proved deadlines through submission evidence.
• Detailed understanding of corporate-tax filing, payment, withholding, election and tax-accounting dependencies across differing local ownership models.
• Experience defining workflow states and data fields precisely enough for later technology configuration without allowing software to dictate tax governance.
• Evidence of piloting with live obligations, recording defects and withholding acceptance until critical control breaks were retested.
• Ability to coordinate local legal accountability with central standards and escalate missing ownership without assuming filing authority.
• A disciplined record of completing fixed-scope operational-tax projects with explicit dependencies, acceptance criteria and residual-risk transfer.

Working terms and boundaries

• The six-month engagement is staffed three days a week and paid through four acceptance-linked milestones rather than a time-and-materials rate.
• Functional acceptance and evidence-control acceptance are separate; both named owners must sign before the final milestone is released.
• Existing trackers, filed records, owner access and pilot-team capacity are client dependencies with dates recorded in the project plan.
• Return preparation, technical-policy change, platform procurement and controversy cleanup are outside scope and require formal variation.
• Final acceptance requires a successful live pilot, retested critical defects, trained operators, migrated future obligations and explicit residual-risk ownership.

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 8 October 2026. Mandate reference TAX-CON-2026-DUB-12.