Tax Law and Enacted Rate Transition Director

The mandate

This interim appointment will restore control over how enacted direct-tax law and rate changes enter current tax, deferred tax, forecasts and disclosures. The immediate issue is not interpretation alone; it is ensuring that effective dates, affected balances, calculation versions and approval routes align across tax and finance. The Director must commence within three weeks and complete one controlled transition cycle.

The opening fifteen business days will establish a law-change register and trace selected changes from authoritative source through technical conclusion, data impact, model update, journal and disclosure. The interim will identify where monitoring is informal, where enactment status is confused with proposal and where rates or rules have been applied to the wrong period or balance class.

Temporary powers cover assigning impact owners, setting evidence gates, approving routine model updates within delegation and withholding release when testing is incomplete. Reserved interpretation and material financial-reporting conclusions remain with the Group Tax Controller and accounting governance. Lobbying, policy advocacy, broader restructuring and unrelated compliance remediation are outside scope.

Handover requires a permanent owner to lead one monitoring review and one reporting-date impact cycle, including a late change simulation. Exit evidence comprises the authoritative-source protocol, impact matrix, approved technical papers, tested configurations, reconciliations, open interpretations and signed owner acceptance. The six-month term will not extend to compensate for delayed internal nomination.

What you will own

• Build an enacted-law register recording authoritative source, enactment status, effective period, affected jurisdictions, balances, calculations and decision owners.
• Distinguish proposals, substantively enacted changes and enacted requirements according to the applicable reporting framework and local legal process.
• Map each material change to current tax, deferred tax, forecast, uncertain-position, disclosure and cash-payment consequences.
• Require controlled model or configuration changes with specifications, version approval, regression testing and effective-date evidence.
• Reconcile rate-driven balance movements to underlying temporary differences and prevent broad percentage overlays from hiding classification errors.
• Establish escalation thresholds for unresolved interpretation, compressed reporting lead time and changes requiring reserved accounting judgment.
• Train the successor through a live monitoring forum and simulated late enactment immediately before a reporting cut-off.
• Deliver an accepted transition file containing decisions, tests, reconciliations, exclusions and future monitoring ownership.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 15 years in direct-tax accounting or policy implementation, including Director-level leadership of a material law or rate transition.
• A reporting-period error you prevented by distinguishing proposal, enactment status and effective date, with the financial consequence quantified.
• Strong command of current and deferred tax, rate remeasurement, uncertainty, intraperiod treatment, forecast and disclosure implications.
• Experience translating technical legislation into model specifications and regression tests without surrendering tax judgment to systems teams.
• Evidence of managing a change announced or enacted close to reporting cut-off through explicit authority and release gates.
• Ability to keep advocacy and future policy outside a time-bound accounting implementation assignment.
• A handover example using both live monitoring and a late-change simulation.

Working terms and boundaries

• The six-month, five-day-a-week term is fixed and ends after permanent-owner acceptance of the law-change control cycle.
• The interim controls monitoring and delegated release gates; reserved interpretation and material reporting approval remain with named authorities.
• Lobbying, policy advocacy, structural tax planning and unrelated compliance work are excluded.
• On-site Dubai presence is required throughout the diagnostic and first transition, with approved travel limited to source validation needs.
• Completion requires tested changes, reconciled accounting, live successor operation and accepted ownership of unresolved interpretations.

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-DXB-38.