Direct Tax Cash and Balance Sheet Director

The mandate

The Director will own the integrity of direct-tax cash forecasting and tax balance-sheet accounts as one connected discipline. The role must explain why cash paid differs from tax expense, why receivables and payables remain open, and which amounts depend on filing, assessment, refund or dispute events. Its value lies in turning balances and cash timing into accountable decisions rather than reconciling them after the fact.

During the first quarter, the leader will establish a population of tax accounts and payment streams, reconcile them to returns, provisions and authority records, and identify aged or repeatedly reforecast items. Each balance must carry a technical basis, expected settlement route, owner, due date and evidence—not just an account code and narrative.

Authority includes setting tax-account substantiation, approving cash-forecast assumptions within delegation, returning unsupported reconciliations and escalating overdue recovery or payment decisions. Treasury retains liquidity and payment release; accounting governance owns material entries; controversy owners decide case strategy. This seat must connect those decisions without displacing them.

By month twelve, cash-tax variance should be driver-explainable, material accounts should reconcile to underlying obligations and procedural status, and long-standing items should be cleared or consciously owned. Regional tax teams must operate a common forecast and substantiation method, with capable deputies able to challenge assumptions before executive cash decisions.

What you will own

• Define the direct-tax balance-sheet population and assign each account a technical purpose, source record, reconciler, reviewer and settlement trigger.
• Reconcile payments, refunds, receivables, payables, provisions and return positions through controlled bridges rather than broad netting.
• Build a cash-tax driver model covering instalments, filing settlements, withholding, refunds, controversy, elections and timing uncertainty.
• Establish aged-item decision rules that distinguish evidence collection, accounting correction, authority recovery and risk acceptance.
• Return forecasts whose timing, amount or probability cannot be connected to a legal obligation or documented expectation.
• Integrate material cash-tax movements into treasury planning while preserving tax ownership of assumptions and treasury ownership of liquidity.
• Present quarterly balance and cash risk through amount, age, uncertainty, procedural next step and accountable decision.
• Develop regional owners through reconciliation calibration, forecast challenge and delegated approval of routine assumptions.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 16 years in direct-tax accounting, compliance or tax operations, including Director-level responsibility for cash tax and balance-sheet governance.
• A material tax balance you cleared or reclassified after tracing it to returns, payments, authority status and accounting evidence.
• Experience building cash-tax forecasts that separated legal due dates, expected settlement and uncertain controversy outcomes.
• Strong command of provision-to-return, tax accounts, refunds, instalments, withholding, interest and uncertain-position interfaces.
• Evidence of challenging treasury or finance expectations without surrendering tax ownership of the underlying assumptions.
• A case where aged-item clearance pressure would have produced an unsupported entry and how you resolved it.
• Demonstrated development of regional teams capable of explaining cash variance and account status under governance review.

Working terms and boundaries

• This is a permanent full-time role with first-year gates at account census, two cash-forecast cycles and annual balance substantiation.
• The Director owns tax assumptions and account standards; treasury release, material entries and controversy decisions remain separately approved.
• Published remuneration combines annual fixed pay, target bonus and conditional cash-settled long-term awards.
• Hybrid work includes Doha cash and balance governance, with travel only where authority or account evidence needs direct validation.
• Year-one success requires reconciled material accounts, driver-led cash forecasts, cleared aged risks and independently 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 9 October 2026. Mandate reference TAX-PER-2026-DOH-45.