Withholding Tax Control Remediation Director

The mandate

The six-month interim assignment will restore control over direct-tax withholding decisions where payment data, recipient status, treaty evidence and statutory timing are not consistently connected. The Director must be ready to start within two weeks, identify exposures before the next major payment cycle and install a process that permanent owners can operate.

The first fifteen working days will map material payment types, decision points, relief-at-source or refund routes, certificates, beneficial-ownership evidence, rates, filings and ledger reconciliation. Exceptions will be ranked by deadline, financial exposure and repeatability. The interim must distinguish missing documentation from a technically disputed entitlement and send each to the correct authority.

Temporary powers include setting evidence gates, stopping an inadequately supported relief decision, assigning remediation work, approving routine treatment within delegation and escalating reserved positions. Payment release, legal interpretation, settlements and material accounting entries remain with named owners. Payroll taxes, indirect taxes and broad accounts-payable redesign are outside scope.

Exit requires one complete payment-and-filing cycle under the new control model, followed by a successor-led exception review. Every material exception must be cleared or consciously owned; certificates and approvals must be indexed; refunds and exposures must reconcile to accounting; and the Regional Head of Tax must accept the handover record before the interim relinquishes authority.

What you will own

• Reconcile material withholding obligations to payment categories, jurisdictions, recipients, rates, evidence requirements, deadlines and authorised decision owners.
• Test relief-at-source and treaty-benefit cases for residence, beneficial ownership, anti-abuse, procedural form and evidence currency before payment treatment.
• Establish a payment hold and escalation protocol calibrated by statutory consequence, amount, reversibility and remaining time to obtain support.
• Clear priority documentation gaps while preserving a record of facts unavailable, judgments made and risk accepted.
• Design controls connecting payment initiation, tax determination, certificate validation, remittance, return filing and general-ledger reconciliation.
• Quantify historic and current-period exposure separately, assigning any retrospective recovery outside the agreed population to a permanent owner.
• Train the nominated successor through live relief decisions, late-document scenarios and one complete exception-governance meeting.
• Deliver an accepted control pack, indexed evidence population, reconciled exposure schedule and forward certificate-renewal calendar.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 15 years in European direct tax, withholding or tax operations, including Director-level control remediation under active filing pressure.
• A case where you stopped or changed a treaty-relief treatment because beneficial-ownership or procedural evidence was inadequate.
• Working command of withholding on dividends, interest, royalties and services, treaty relief, domestic exemptions and refund mechanics.
• Evidence of linking tax determination to payment and accounting controls without attempting a wholesale payables-system redesign.
• Experience separating remediable documentation failure from a substantive entitlement dispute and escalating each appropriately.
• A quantified withholding exposure you reconciled across payments, returns, remittances, refunds and ledger balances.
• Proof of handing a remediated cycle to permanent leaders through observed live decisions.

Working terms and boundaries

• This is a six-month, five-day-a-week fixed term and will not extend after the successor accepts the recovered control cycle.
• The interim can set gates and stop unsupported routine relief; payment release, reserved interpretation, settlement and material entries remain separately approved.
• Payroll tax, indirect tax, full historical recovery and broad payables transformation are excluded from the accountable perimeter.
• On-site Warsaw attendance is required through mapping and the first controlled cycle, with only approved evidence-gathering travel.
• Completion requires an operated cycle, successor-led exception review, reconciled balances, indexed evidence and explicit ownership of residual items.

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-WAW-22.