EMEA Direct Tax Compliance Director

The mandate

The Regional Director will own EMEA corporate income-tax compliance as a portfolio of statutory obligations, technical decisions and service risks. The permanent seat must create enough common discipline to make exposure visible while respecting legal, language and authority differences. Its test is not the percentage of tasks marked complete; it is whether filings and payments are timely, evidenced, reconciled and signed by accountable owners.

The first quarter will validate entity and obligation populations, identify material provider and data dependencies, and compare local review models. The Director will rank jurisdictions by financial exposure, judgment, deadline risk and capability, then decide where enhanced review, local investment or regional service is justified. Recurring true-ups and late evidence must lead to root-cause ownership.

Authority includes issuing regional standards, approving service measures, returning filings that fail readiness, directing remediation and deciding routine escalations within delegation. Country signatories retain statutory authority; central policy owners approve precedent issues; procurement retains material provider contracts. The Director governs those interfaces without turning regional oversight into duplicate preparation.

By month twelve, every material jurisdiction should have a verified calendar, evidence-based sign-off, reconciled return and capable deputy. Provider reports should expose rework and issue anticipation, regional reviews should focus on residual risk, and leadership should see decisions required rather than a status summary that conceals local fragility.

What you will own

• Verify the EMEA population of entities, permanent establishments, returns, payments, elections, withholding and information obligations.
• Establish risk-tiered filing-readiness standards covering data, technical approval, computation, payment, signature and submission receipt.
• Decide which activities remain country-led, use regional support, require external provision or receive enhanced central review.
• Reconcile material filings to tax provision, cash payments and prior-period adjustments through controlled explanatory bridges.
• Govern service providers through error, rework, evidence, anticipation, escalation and knowledge-transfer measures.
• Direct remediation of repeat misses, unsupported adjustments and ownerless dependencies according to financial and procedural consequence.
• Present regional risk by exposure, evidence confidence, recurrence, decision lead time and reserved authority.
• Develop country leaders through calibrated file review, cross-border cases and observed delegation of routine readiness decisions.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 18 years in corporate direct-tax compliance, including Regional Director responsibility across diverse EMEA jurisdictions.
• An operating-model decision where you retained local ownership or changed a provider after evidence contradicted the preferred regional design.
• Experience across returns, payments, withholding, tax audits, provision-to-return and differing statutory-signature models.
• A case where an apparently on-time filing concealed rework or weak technical support and how you corrected the measure.
• Evidence of setting different review depth by risk without creating unexplained inconsistency.
• Ability to uphold country legal authority while requiring common evidence and escalation discipline.
• A record of building country tax leaders who can challenge providers and approve routine readiness independently.

Working terms and boundaries

• This ongoing full-time appointment has first-year gates at population proof, service-model decisions and one completed regional cycle.
• The Director owns regional standards and delegated gates; country signatures, precedent policy and provider contracts remain separately authorised.
• Annual remuneration includes fixed pay, target bonus and conditional performance shares under ordinary vesting.
• Hybrid work includes Paris governance and planned market reviews where local evidence or capability needs direct testing.
• Year-one success requires controlled calendars, measurable quality, reconciled filings, provider accountability and capable local 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 9 October 2026. Mandate reference TAX-PER-2026-PAR-61.