Interim Senior Director APAC Tax — Entity Reorganisation and Filing Continuity

The mandate

The APAC tax leader of a technology-services group is leaving the region through an internal transfer while an approved entity reorganisation enters execution. The expanded senior-director perimeter now includes coordinating legacy filing obligations and tax concurrence for revised service flows. You will start on 26 October 2026 for nine months, with permanent recruitment underway. The leadership gap is immediate, but the task is bounded: maintain reliable tax decisions and compliance continuity through the transition rather than reopen the entire strategic case for the reorganisation.

Thirteen managers and coordinators need clear direction on which entity retains each historical obligation, who supplies evidence and when a changed operating arrangement requires fresh technical advice. You will create a transition obligation map covering filings, payments, intercompany documentation and outstanding reviews. A legal merger or transfer milestone does not automatically end every legacy obligation. The executive must make those remaining duties visible and ensure that local advisers, controllers and project managers use consistent facts when explaining the new model or responding to an unresolved historical question.

Within approved policy, you may concur on routine tax treatments, prioritise regional resources and authorise tax payments through the documented delegation. The global tax head approves novel positions, material settlements and changes to reorganisation assumptions. The steering committee reserves transaction sequencing and entity closure decisions, with counsel responsible for legal steps. New treasury structures, business pricing redesign and litigating historical disputes are excluded. Any extension requires written global-head approval under an overall 24-month cap, not an implied right to remain until every tax matter is finally resolved.

Handover in July 2027 requires the permanent successor's induction into the senior-director perimeter, a tested filing calendar for both surviving and legacy obligations and evidence-backed concurrence for the selected revised flows. Two compliance cycles must demonstrate that entity owners can produce required inputs without emergency escalation. Unresolved controversy and uncertain interpretation remain in a controlled register with next decisions, advisers and deadlines. Bengaluru is the base, combining onsite transition work with planned regional travel. The board expects a clean leadership transfer, not a claim that a structural project has eliminated all future tax uncertainty.

What you will own

• Establish the transition obligation map by entity and period, identifying retained historical filings and evidence owners before operational teams treat legal transfer dates as the end of every legacy responsibility.
• Decide routine tax concurrence for revised service flows within approved policy, escalating changed facts or novel interpretations with local advice before project milestones create irreversible operating or payment commitments.
• Authorise tax-payment priorities under delegation using confirmed obligations and funding availability, making material uncertainty visible to the global head rather than allowing incomplete transition data to delay routine compliance.
• Set the combined filing calendar for surviving and legacy entities, requiring tested input routes and deputy ownership where existing staff or systems will disappear during the reorganisation sequence.
• Resolve cross-entity evidence disagreements with controllers and advisers, maintaining a consistent factual record while preserving legitimate local conclusions and preventing the same transaction from receiving contradictory descriptions.
• Induct the permanent senior director through live compliance reviews and the residual-risk register, demonstrating that managers can reproduce the selected cycles and continue technical escalation after interim leadership ends.

Candidate qualifications

• Have personally led tax work through an entity reorganisation, integration or regional operating-model change in technology services. Explain an obligation that remained after legal completion or a changed service arrangement and how you secured its ownership. The relevant proof is continuity of real filings and decisions, not only membership of the restructuring project or review of a high-level tax memorandum.
• Bring twelve to eighteen years of tax experience, with Chartered Accountancy or comparable professional depth and substantial international-tax exposure. You must examine changed service facts, intercompany arrangements and treaty or withholding assumptions without claiming that one opinion answers every market. Demonstrate the judgement to seek specialist advice and identify when a previously approved position no longer covers the transaction being executed.
• Evidence delegated leadership over regional managers, resource priorities and tax-payment concurrence. Describe how you handled conflicting deadlines without either bypassing approval boundaries or referring every routine matter upward. Experience should include working with controllers and counsel to maintain one factual record while respecting their distinct accounting and legal responsibilities during a structurally complex transition.
• Be ready for the 26 October 2026 start and reserve five days weekly across the nine-month cover period. Show a prior technical leadership handover with usable calendars, evidence files and trained deputies. You should be comfortable leaving unresolved historical matters in a candid, owned register rather than extending your own engagement indefinitely or presenting their existence as evidence that the transition cannot be completed.

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 13 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-INT-2026-IND-022.