Senior Director Indirect Tax — Hardware Distribution and Cross-Border Supply Controls

The mandate

A technology hardware distributor is broadening its tax leadership as customer arrangements combine equipment, installation, warranty support and replacement flows. The same physical item can travel through import, internal transfer, customer delivery and return records with inconsistent transaction descriptions. A senior director will own indirect-tax concurrence and the evidence controls connecting those events. The role is permanent and employment is open-ended, with an eighteen-month initial agenda to stabilise priority flows and continuing responsibility as the network changes its commercial and service model.

The work must distinguish a goods movement from the supply facts that support its treatment. Customer returns, advance replacements and warranty recovery may create different obligations even when warehouse teams use similar movement codes. Bundled contracts need analysis against actual rights and delivery responsibilities, not a default assumption that every installation line is a separate service. Where import or trade interpretation matters, qualified specialists provide advice; your team must ensure that approved treatment is reflected consistently in finance evidence, GST review and transaction records.

Thirteen reviewers and evidence specialists sit within the perimeter. You approve routine indirect-tax positions under national policy, establish document requirements and return unsupported exceptions for review. Novel classification, material exposure and changes to the cross-border supply model go to the India tax head with relevant advice. Logistics retains custody and movement execution; finance owns accounting; legal owns contractual interpretation. You do not select a customs position independently of the appointed specialist or pressure operations to manufacture documentation after the event. The evidence architecture must reflect the transaction that actually occurred.

The opening programme should leave a tested flow catalogue, a reconciled treatment map and clear owners for movement-to-invoice exceptions. Sampled transactions need traceability through source records, reviewed facts and financial treatment, including the return or replacement event where applicable. Chennai is the base, with distribution and service-location visits used to validate the records. The ongoing role develops reviewer judgement and changes controls when commercial models evolve. Its value is dependable specialist governance that reduces recurring ambiguity, not simply a faster queue of approvals whose assumptions nobody checks after release.

What you will own

• Define the hardware flow catalogue from actual movement, contract and invoice evidence, distinguishing customer supply, internal transfer, return and replacement events that operating systems currently describe through similar codes.
• Decide routine GST and indirect-tax concurrence within approved policy, requiring documented facts and specialist escalation when bundled rights, cross-border treatment or changed service responsibility fall outside established positions.
• Establish transaction-evidence controls with logistics and finance around supplier, customer and custody records, identifying exceptions that prevent a reviewed treatment from being reproduced across the selected population.
• Challenge warranty and replacement patterns for inconsistent contractual or accounting descriptions, resolving the factual basis before tax reviewers accept treatment simply because the physical movement resembles an earlier transaction.
• Build a movement-to-invoice reconciliation that preserves returns and adjustments, ensuring source exceptions have owners and are not concealed by netting goods flows into an apparently balanced monthly tax report.
• Develop reviewers through worked hardware and bundled-service cases, strengthening their ability to recognise the boundary of national policy and seek relevant trade or legal advice without delaying every routine movement.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate substantial Indian indirect-tax and GST experience in hardware, technology supply or a related transaction-rich distribution model. Describe a flow whose tax interpretation changed after you examined the actual contract and movement evidence. Your contribution should identify the missing fact, the technical review and the operational control introduced, rather than only successful completion of returns or a favourable audit outcome.
• Bring twenty-two to twenty-eight years of tax or senior specialist finance experience and rigorous professional knowledge. You must connect movement records, invoice treatment and commercial obligations without assuming that a logistics code settles the tax analysis. Experience should include audit-ready evidence and collaboration with qualified trade or legal advisers where the issue exceeds your own technical authority or an approved national policy.
• Show how you analysed bundled goods and support arrangements, returns or warranty flows without forcing them into an unsupported standard classification. Explain the practical evidence needed and how you kept approved treatment aligned with execution. Bring informed transaction judgement and the ability to specify when a trade specialist's advice is required, documenting its assumptions and translating the approved conclusion into usable tax-control evidence.
• Evidence leadership of reviewers and collaboration with logistics, service and finance teams under delivery pressure. You should have established workable exception routes, coached non-tax owners in source evidence and maintained confidential contracts securely. Regular distribution-site exposure and willingness to correct a previously approved position when facts change are essential to maintaining credibility across this ongoing national supply-governance perimeter.

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 15 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-PER-2026-IND-032.