Senior Director Tax Assurance — Digital Infrastructure Provisions and Controversy Evidence

The mandate

A digital-infrastructure services group is creating a senior-director tax-assurance role to connect regional controversy management with financial reporting judgement. Tax disputes, provisioning papers and audit responses currently use different versions of the facts, creating unnecessary risk when a new assessment or legal development arrives during close. The first eighteen months will build a coherent evidence and decision framework. Employment is open-ended, and the role continues to own tax-assurance governance as the regional entity portfolio and dispute inventory develop after the initial reset.

You will establish a controlled factual record for material positions, separating legal arguments, financial estimates and management expectations about eventual outcomes. An encouraging hearing or adviser view must not automatically change the reporting judgement without the appropriate accounting analysis. Equally, a conservative provision cannot substitute for a complete controversy file. The business needs a bridge that shows why a tax exposure moved, which evidence changed and who approved the conclusion, making committee discussion possible without repeatedly reconstructing several years of regional correspondence.

Eleven provision and controversy coordinators report within the perimeter, supported by local tax advisers and entity controllers. You approve routine assurance papers within delegated technical policy, set evidence standards and require correction of inconsistent factual submissions. The group tax head decides material dispute strategy; the chief accounting officer approves significant reporting positions. Counsel retains legal representation. You will coordinate those owners without allowing litigation advocacy, close pressure or a desired earnings outcome to replace the reasoning required for a defensible financial estimate.

The opening agenda should leave a reconciled exposure inventory, a tested tax-close workflow and committee papers that clearly distinguish facts, assumptions and unresolved interpretation. Later responsibility includes training reviewers, calibrating regional provision practice and improving evidence retention as contracts and operating structures change. Hyderabad is the primary location, with targeted audit and entity visits. Regional assurance belongs to this seat, with legal representation retained by counsel. Its measure is credible judgement and repeatable governance, rather than the number of disputes won or the smallest reported tax charge.

What you will own

• Establish a material-exposure inventory that reconciles regional dispute files to tax-close positions, documenting why legal arguments and financial estimates may differ without allowing either record to omit the underlying facts.
• Decide evidence standards for provision papers within approved policy, requiring reviewers to distinguish changed facts, new interpretation and unsupported expectations before recommending an adjustment to the reporting position.
• Build a controversy-to-close movement bridge that identifies the source and approver of each material change, enabling the accounting officer and tax head to review the conclusion without reconstructing historical correspondence.
• Challenge regional audit responses for factual consistency with contracts, filings and prior submissions, resolving contradictions with local advisers before external communications create avoidable uncertainty or damage the group's credibility.
• Set escalation of material legal developments and reporting deadlines, coordinating counsel, tax and accounting owners while preserving their respective authority over litigation strategy and financial treatment.
• Develop provision and controversy reviewers through case calibration and evidence-retention controls, improving the quality of judgement without rewarding either excessive optimism about disputes or unsupported blanket conservatism.

Candidate qualifications

• Have twelve to eighteen years of tax experience with significant provisioning, audit-defence or controversy responsibility in technology or digital services. Describe a material position where legal prospects and financial reporting judgement did not move together. Explain the evidence, specialist input and approval route you used, showing how your personal work preserved a coherent factual account across the different decision purposes.
• Demonstrate Chartered Accountancy or equivalent advanced accounting and tax expertise, including practical ability to construct tax-close papers and reconcile exposures across entities. You must distinguish a legal argument from a recognised financial estimate and understand when new facts require reassessment. Experience should include defending reasoning to senior accounting and assurance stakeholders rather than relying entirely on outside advisers' conclusions.
• Evidence management of regional audits or disputes where source documents were fragmented and previous submissions required careful reconciliation. Show how you corrected factual inconsistency without undermining valid legal strategy, maintained privileged material appropriately and established records that remained useful to a later reviewer. Specialist litigation representation is not required, but disciplined collaboration with counsel and local advisers is essential.
• Bring leadership of technical reviewers, strong committee communication and the ability to resist pressure for a predetermined earnings or controversy outcome. You should have improved evidence quality through training and case reviews, maintained confidential tax information securely and escalated uncertainty candidly. The wider seat requires responsibility for a repeatable assurance mechanism, not merely exceptional individual technical analysis of the most visible case.

Application

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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 11 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-PER-2026-IND-020.