International Tax Data Evidence Recovery Director

The mandate

The interim Director will recover control of the factual and financial evidence used across international-tax positions. Entity, ownership, personnel, contracts, transactions and tax attributes are currently assembled through different channels, making it difficult to prove which version informed a conclusion. The appointee must start within one month and leave a permanent evidence-owner model operating by month ten.

The first three weeks will identify priority decisions and trace their facts to authoritative sources, custodians and effective periods. The recovery will not create an uncontrolled data lake. It will define a minimum evidence record for residence, permanent establishments, withholding, CFC, minimum tax, financing and transfer-pricing decisions, with exceptions ranked by consequence.

Temporary authority includes setting evidence standards, requesting source confirmation, assigning remediation, returning decision papers with unresolved contradictions and approving routine corrections within delegation. Technical positions, contract changes, source-system ownership and filed submissions remain reserved. Broad master-data replacement and historical archival work outside the selected population are excluded.

Handover requires a permanent tax data lead to run one full evidence refresh and respond to a simulated late factual change. Exit evidence includes a governed source catalogue, factual certifications, effective-date controls, contradiction log, retrieval tests and signed ownership. The International Tax Director must accept that priority decisions can be reproduced without the interim's personal knowledge.

What you will own

• Select priority international-tax decisions by exposure, factual volatility, source fragmentation and reuse across jurisdictions.
• Build a source catalogue linking each fact to authoritative record, custodian, effective period, permitted use and validation frequency.
• Establish factual certification for entity status, ownership, personnel, decision conduct, contracts, payments and changes during the period.
• Identify contradictions among legal, accounting, tax and operational records and prohibit silent selection of the most convenient version.
• Create effective-date and change controls so decisions use facts applicable to the relevant transaction and reporting period.
• Test retrieval by requiring independent reviewers to reproduce selected decision inputs within agreed time and provenance standards.
• Prepare the successor through a live refresh and a late-change scenario affecting several tax analyses.
• Transfer the accepted evidence model, priority records, residual gaps, access controls and maintenance calendar.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 15 years in international tax, tax data or tax operations, including Director-level evidence or data-governance remediation.
• A technical conclusion you reopened because authoritative facts differed from the data originally supplied.
• Breadth across residence, permanent establishments, withholding, CFC, global minimum tax, financing and transfer-pricing evidence.
• Experience defining source hierarchy and effective-date rules without assuming ownership of enterprise source systems.
• Evidence of resolving contradictory legal, accounting and operational records through named factual authorities.
• A retrieval or reproduction test you used to expose hidden dependence on individuals or uncontrolled files.
• Successful handover to a permanent data owner through live refresh and changed-fact simulation.

Working terms and boundaries

• The ten-month assignment is five days a week; extension is limited to six weeks and an incomplete successor-led evidence cycle.
• The interim sets evidence governance and delegated corrections; technical decisions, contracts, systems and filings remain reserved.
• Enterprise master-data replacement and unselected historical archiving are outside scope.
• Tokyo presence is required through source reconstruction and first refresh, with travel tied to material factual custodians.
• Completion requires reproducible priority evidence, resolved critical contradictions, successor operation and accepted residual ownership.

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 10 October 2026. Mandate reference TAX-INT-2026-TYO-54.