Operational Transfer Pricing Controls Director

The mandate

The Director will own the controls that turn approved transfer-pricing policy into accurate intercompany charges, invoices, entries and documentation evidence. The role is permanently accountable for the point where technical intent meets finance execution. It must detect when facts, results or transactions leave the approved model and route exceptions before year-end correction becomes the normal operating method.

The first quarter will identify material transaction families, map policy to agreements and calculations, and test a sample from source data through settlement and reporting. The Director will distinguish policy defects from execution failure, data weakness and legitimate business change. Controls must be proportionate to risk and usable by finance teams, not dependent on continuous interpretation by a central specialist.

Authority includes setting operating standards, approving calculation specifications, returning unsupported charges, directing control remediation and deciding routine exceptions within delegation. Policy changes, contract approval, legal invoicing and material accounting entries remain with named owners. The Director must preserve those interfaces while preventing gaps between them.

By month twelve, material charges should reconcile to approved policy and controlled data, true-ups should be explainable and predicted earlier, and change triggers should reach tax before execution diverges. Regional operators must be trained and assessed, with metrics that reveal exception quality and rework rather than celebrating transaction volume.

What you will own

• Map each material transaction family from policy and agreement through data, calculation, approval, invoice or journal, settlement and documentation.
• Approve calculation specifications covering source hierarchy, segmentation, allocation, markup, currency, timing, true-up and exception evidence.
• Establish preventive and detective controls that identify missing transactions, out-of-range results, stale parameters and conduct changes.
• Require owner-approved exception records when policy cannot be applied, including financial effect, temporary treatment and resolution date.
• Reconcile operational charges to tested results and financial statements without netting away unexplained differences.
• Direct root-cause action where repeated true-ups arise from forecast, data, calculation, policy or execution failure.
• Assess regional operators through live calculations and changed-fact cases before delegating routine approvals.
• Present quarterly operational transfer-pricing health through defects, exposure, recurrence, timeliness and ownership.

Candidate qualifications

• Sixteen or more years connecting transfer-pricing policy to finance execution, with Director-level control ownership across several distinct intercompany transaction families.
• A recurring charge or true-up process you corrected after proving where policy and ledger execution diverged.
• Strong command of service, royalty, product, financing and other intercompany calculations, accounting handoffs and documentation dependencies.
• Evidence of designing controls that permanent finance operators could execute without daily tax intervention.
• Experience distinguishing an operating defect from a policy issue and sending each to the correct authority.
• A case where you rejected an apparently in-range result because source, agreement or conduct evidence failed.
• Demonstrated development of regional operators and reviewers through assessed live decisions.

Working terms and boundaries

• This ongoing full-time position has first-year gates at process mapping, priority-control operation and regional capability assessment.
• The Director owns operating standards and delegated exceptions; policy, contracts and material accounting remain separately authorised.
• The annual package includes fixed pay, target bonus and conditional cash-settled long-term incentives under ordinary governance.
• Hybrid work includes Manila operations and planned market testing where execution evidence cannot be assessed remotely.
• First-year success requires reconciled priority transactions, reduced root-cause true-ups, working change triggers and capable regional owners.

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-MNL-57.