Tax Control Framework and Compliance Analytics Director

The mandate

This permanent seat will define how direct-tax obligations, judgments and data are controlled as one management system. The objective is not a library of control descriptions. It is a demonstrable relationship between a tax risk, the action that prevents or detects it, the evidence generated and the executive who accepts any residual exposure. Analytics must sharpen that relationship rather than produce dashboards disconnected from decisions.

The Director's first phase will inventory corporate-income-tax, withholding, tax-accounting and international-tax processes, then test whether stated controls operate with the data and authority assumed. The resulting framework must distinguish preventive, detective and monitoring activity; separate control failure from underlying tax exposure; and identify manual work whose volume or complexity makes assurance unreliable.

Decision rights include issuing control-design standards, rejecting self-assessments without operating evidence, setting remediation priority and determining which exceptions reach tax or finance governance. Process owners retain execution accountability, and Internal Audit retains independent assurance. The Director must protect those lines while creating a shared taxonomy and evidence model.

Within twelve months, senior governance should receive a concise, risk-ranked view of tax-control health with no confusion between completion and effectiveness. Material controls must have tested lineage, recurring exceptions must have root-cause decisions, and designated deputies must be able to operate the monitoring and challenge cycle without dependence on the inaugural leader.

What you will own

• Publish a direct-tax control taxonomy linking obligations, assertions, failure modes, controls, evidence, frequency, owner and escalation threshold.
• Complete design and operating-effectiveness tests for the highest-risk controls, recording populations, sample logic, exceptions and accountable conclusions.
• Establish a tax-data lineage standard that traces material calculations from governed source through transformation, review, filing or financial reporting.
• Approve a monitoring suite that highlights abnormal movements, missing evidence and control override while avoiding false assurance from activity counts.
• Direct remediation according to residual tax exposure, recurrence and control dependency, with the authority to return plans that address symptoms only.
• Define how management assurance, second-line tax oversight and independent audit rely on one another without duplicating or weakening accountability.
• Present a quarterly tax-control opinion that separates proven effectiveness, open deficiency, untested coverage and accepted residual risk.
• Build a sustainable testing and analytics capability with documented methods, calibrated reviewers and a succession plan for each critical activity.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 16 years across direct tax, finance controls or tax operations, including Director-level ownership of a tax-control framework in a complex environment.
• A framework you personally converted from narrative controls into testable evidence, with examples of controls removed, redesigned or escalated.
• Working knowledge of corporate-income-tax compliance, tax accounting, withholding and international-tax processes sufficient to challenge technical control assertions.
• Evidence of using analytics to identify a material control exception, including population design, false-positive treatment and the decision taken.
• Experience aligning tax ownership with finance, risk and internal-audit assurance without outsourcing management's conclusion to the assurance function.
• Strong command of control design, operating-effectiveness testing, deficiency evaluation, remediation acceptance and executive risk reporting.
• A record of developing control reviewers who can challenge both data logic and tax-process reality.

Working terms and boundaries

• The appointment is ongoing and full time, with first-year checkpoints after framework design, priority-control testing and the first quarterly opinion cycle.
• The Director sets standards and concludes management monitoring; process execution, tax technical approval and independent assurance remain separately owned.
• Fixed compensation, annual incentive and conditional performance rights form the complete published package, subject to ordinary governance and vesting.
• Hybrid work includes planned on-site testing and governance sessions, with travel tied to evidence that cannot be validated from the central record.
• First-year success requires tested priority controls, closed critical defects, a decision-linked analytics suite, credible residual-risk reporting and trained successors.

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-SYD-09.