Cross-Border Tax Integration Director

The mandate

The interim Director will establish temporary executive command over the direct-tax work needed to integrate cross-border ownership, reporting and compliance into one governed model. Technical issues currently move through separate teams, leaving uncertainty about which facts are settled, which elections or filings are time-bound and which decisions require reserved approval. The appointee must begin within four weeks and leave permanent ownership operating by month twelve.

The opening phase will build a tax integration decision register covering entity residence, permanent establishments, attributes, withholding, financing, transfer pricing, deferred tax, registrations, returns and inherited controversy. Each item will show the factual source, legal interpretation, financial consequence, dependency, deadline and authorised decision maker. Unknown facts must remain visible rather than being converted into assumptions for schedule convenience.

Temporary decision rights cover workstream sequencing, evidence gates, owner assignment, approved adviser briefs and recommendations within a delegated framework. Legal structure, tax elections, settlements, material provision conclusions and permanent appointments remain reserved. Indirect tax and customs execution are excluded except for explicitly documented dependencies on the direct-tax plan.

Handover starts no later than month six. Permanent owners will take successive workstreams through decision, implementation control and governance reporting under observation. The exit condition is a closed priority decision register, accepted filings calendar, reconciled tax-accounting effects, tested owner capability and a signed twelve-month sustainment plan—not simply completion of a transaction checklist.

What you will own

• Establish a single tax integration register linking every material issue to facts, authority, due date, cash or reporting effect and implementation evidence.
• Validate tax residence, permanent-establishment and legal-ownership assumptions before they enter compliance, accounting or transfer-pricing workstreams.
• Secure decisions on inherited losses, attributes, elections and filing positions early enough to preserve lawful options and avoid accidental expiry.
• Align intercompany pricing, agreements, withholding and accounting entries through one controlled implementation sequence.
• Reconcile purchase or opening tax balances to the approved direct-tax facts and escalate unsupported valuation or recognition conclusions.
• Commission specialist advice through narrow questions and documented factual assumptions, retaining internal ownership of the resulting decision.
• Prepare permanent leaders through supervised decision papers, live implementation reviews and explicit feedback on escalation judgment.
• Deliver a handover record containing completed choices, residual exposures, forward obligations, reserved matters and accepted ownership.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 17 years in international direct tax, including Director-level ownership of a cross-border acquisition, combination or operating integration.
• A decision register you used to prevent a tax election, filing or attribute from being lost during a compressed transition.
• Breadth across residence, permanent establishments, withholding, financing, tax attributes, transfer pricing and acquisition-related tax accounting.
• Evidence of identifying a factual assumption that would have invalidated several downstream tax workstreams if left untested.
• Experience managing external advisers through precise scope while retaining internal judgment, implementation ownership and budget control.
• Demonstrated separation of direct-tax integration from adjacent indirect, customs, legal and systems work without ignoring genuine dependencies.
• A handover example where permanent owners demonstrated live decision capability before the interim departed.

Working terms and boundaries

• The assignment is a twelve-month, five-day-a-week fixed term with no extension after the agreed tax integration handover is accepted.
• Temporary authority covers sequencing, evidence quality, work allocation and recommendations; structure, elections, settlements and reserved accounting stay outside delegation.
• Indirect-tax execution, customs, broad finance integration and permanent recruitment are excluded unless a documented dependency requires coordination.
• Riyadh presence is required for decision forums and implementation control, with travel approved only against named jurisdictional evidence needs.
• Exit requires permanent-owner operation, a controlled forward calendar, reconciled accounting, closed priority choices and signed residual-risk acceptance.

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 6 October 2026. Mandate reference TAX-INT-2026-RUH-18.