International Tax Policy Consistency Director

The mandate

The Director will own consistency of material international direct-tax positions across policy, transactions, filings, accounting and controversy. Consistency does not mean forcing different legal facts into identical outcomes. It means that departures from a governing position are identified, reasoned, authorised and visible before one jurisdiction's argument undermines another's or before operational conduct makes policy obsolete.

The first quarter will assemble a policy hierarchy and map where local positions, elections, agreements or reporting treatments diverge. Each divergence will be assessed for factual necessity, legal requirement, timing, materiality and cross-border consequence. The Director must separate legitimate local adaptation from convenient inconsistency or unnoticed policy drift.

Authority includes issuing policy standards, convening interpretation panels, returning unreasoned local departures, approving routine variants within delegation and escalating precedent-setting positions. Local filing officers retain statutory sign-off, controversy leaders own defence strategy and accounting owners approve reporting conclusions. This seat connects those records without taking their reserved decisions.

After twelve months, priority policies must have clear scope, authority, evidence and change triggers. Local variants should be searchable and justified; transactions and filings should use current positions; controversy arguments should not surprise policy owners; and regional leaders should be able to decide ordinary application through an explicit precedent framework.

What you will own

• Create a policy architecture covering residence, permanent establishments, withholding, financing, attributes, minimum tax and material cross-border elections.
• Establish a deviation register recording local law, facts, alternative treatment, affected jurisdictions, authority, duration and reconsideration trigger.
• Compare transaction papers, filing positions, tax-accounting conclusions and dispute arguments for contradictions in common factual or legal premises.
• Chair a precedent forum that distinguishes reusable principles from case-specific conclusions and records dissent or limited application.
• Require policy updates when law, operating conduct, ownership or authority outcomes change the assumptions on which a position rests.
• Approve routine local variants within delegation and elevate positions that affect several jurisdictions, disclosures or accepted risk appetite.
• Provide executives with a concise view of unresolved inconsistencies, potential cross-border spillover and decisions requiring reserved authority.
• Build regional policy judgment through calibration cases, documented precedents and observed delegation of recurring decisions.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 18 years in international direct tax, including Director-level policy governance across multiple legal systems.
• A conflict between jurisdictional positions you identified before filing or controversy, including the resolution and authority used.
• Breadth across residence, permanent establishments, treaties, withholding, financing, CFC rules, attributes and tax-accounting interfaces.
• Evidence of preserving a justified local departure while preventing it from becoming an unexamined global precedent.
• Experience creating policy hierarchies and change triggers that remained usable through law and operating-model changes.
• Ability to distinguish factual inconsistency, interpretive difference and permissible election in senior governance discussion.
• A record of developing regional leaders who can apply policy without escalating every novel fact centrally.

Working terms and boundaries

• The position is ongoing and full time, with first-year reviews after policy mapping, priority reconciliation and the first precedent-governance cycle.
• The Director owns policy consistency and delegated variants; local signatures, controversy route and reporting approval remain with named owners.
• Annual fixed pay, target incentive and conditional deferred performance shares comprise the published compensation.
• Hybrid attendance will centre on Luxembourg policy forums and scheduled evidence reviews, with travel limited to material factual conflicts.
• Year-one completion requires an approved hierarchy, controlled deviations, reconciled priority positions and demonstrated regional judgment.

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-LUX-41.