Global Corporate Tax Compliance Director

The mandate

The Director will make corporate income-tax compliance a controlled global obligation rather than a collection of locally reported deadlines. The role must preserve jurisdictional accountability while giving executive leadership a reliable view of readiness, technical dependency and residual exposure. A return counted as filed is not sufficient if its calculation, review and payment cannot be traced to authorised evidence.

The first four months will establish the complete obligation population, current service model, review hierarchy and critical dependencies with accounting, legal and payroll data. The Director will decide where a common global standard is necessary, where local procedure must prevail and which activities require specialist capability rather than administrative centralisation.

Authority includes setting compliance policy, approving service standards, challenging filing readiness, directing remediation and escalating positions beyond agreed risk tolerances. Local authorised officers retain statutory signature; technical policy owners retain reserved interpretations. External providers may be governed through this role, but appointments and material commercial changes remain subject to procurement and executive approval.

By the end of year one, every material obligation must have evidenced ownership, a controlled computation-to-filing trail and a forward dependency view. Service performance should distinguish timeliness from quality, repeated adjustments should lead to root-cause decisions, and regional leaders should be capable of operating the model without central intervention in routine filings.

What you will own

• Confirm the worldwide corporate-tax obligation population and assign each item a legal owner, process owner, reviewer, signatory, evidence path and escalation threshold.
• Publish filing-readiness criteria covering data completeness, technical approval, computation review, payment confirmation and submission receipt.
• Segment activities by judgment and risk to determine which remain local, enter a regional service, use an external provider or require central review.
• Establish performance measures for on-time readiness, rework, late technical change, payment variance, unsupported adjustment and repeat control failure.
• Approve a risk-ranked remediation plan and refuse status closure where a deadline was met through uncontrolled manual intervention.
• Create a provider-governance protocol that tests deliverable quality, data protection, issue escalation, knowledge retention and responsible internal acceptance.
• Integrate filing status with provision, cash forecast and controversy records so material differences reach the appropriate decision owner promptly.
• Develop regional compliance leaders through calibrated reviews, cross-jurisdiction case sessions and documented delegation of routine decisions.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 17 years in corporate direct-tax compliance, including Director-level accountability across a minimum of ten jurisdictions.
• A global compliance model you designed or materially rebuilt, with evidence of obligation completeness, improved quality and retained local accountability.
• Direct experience governing in-house, outsourced and hybrid filing arrangements, including provider-quality failure and service transition.
• Strong understanding of the relationship among return positions, provision estimates, cash payments, withholding and controversy exposure.
• A case where you resisted centralising a local activity because legal judgment, language or authority made another model safer.
• Evidence of converting repeated late adjustments into root-cause ownership rather than normalising them as calendar pressure.
• Demonstrated development of regional tax leaders able to approve, challenge and escalate without waiting for central intervention.

Working terms and boundaries

• This is a continuing full-time appointment with first-year gates at obligation census, operating-model approval and completion of one global filing cycle.
• Policy, readiness standards and remediation sit within the Director's authority; statutory signatures and reserved tax interpretations remain with named owners.
• The annual package contains fixed compensation, target bonus and conditional restricted stock, all subject to normal approval and vesting provisions.
• Hybrid attendance will include Tokyo governance sessions and scheduled visits where provider or local evidence requires direct validation.
• First-year completion requires a reconciled population, operational readiness gates, tested provider governance, measurable root-cause closure and capable regional deputies.

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-TYO-13.