Tax Legal Entity Simplification Director

The mandate

This engagement will deliver a tax-tested legal-entity simplification plan and the control artifacts required to execute approved closures, mergers or ownership changes. The defined problem is a population of entities whose continuing tax purpose, attributes, obligations and interdependencies are not assessed through one method. The project is not a general corporate reorganisation and cannot make governance decisions on behalf of authorised officers.

Milestone one, due in week six, is a validated entity population with residence, status, attributes, filings, balances, agreements, disputes and dependency evidence. Milestone two, at month three, is an option screen that separates clearly retain, candidate simplify and blocked entities. Milestone three, at month five, comprises decision papers for the approved priority population.

Milestone four, due at month eight, is the tax execution-and-control pack for decisions authorised to proceed: step plans, elections, clearances, filings, accounting consequences, evidence owners and stop conditions. The final milestone is an accepted completion and residual-risk dossier in month nine. Technical acceptance belongs to the Global Head of Tax; execution-control acceptance sits with the appointed legal-entity governance owner.

The client will provide entity records, returns, financial balances, agreements, ownership charts, litigation status and access to legal, finance and tax owners. Acceptance requires reconciled population, documented alternatives, quantified consequences, explicit approvals and controlled ownership of every execution step. Legal drafting, liquidation services, filing submission, valuation and system changes are excluded.

What you will own

• Reconcile the legal-entity population across statutory, tax, ownership and accounting records, resolving or explicitly assigning every discrepancy.
• Assess tax residence, losses, credits, basis, distributions, withholding, transfer pricing, permanent establishments, open audits and filing tail for each candidate.
• Screen retain, simplify and blocked options through tax cost, cash timing, legal dependency, accounting effect, reversibility and execution risk.
• Produce decision papers showing alternatives, quantified ranges, assumptions, approvals, stop conditions and residual obligations rather than a single recommended route.
• Sequence approved steps to protect tax attributes, procedural rights, solvency, filings and evidence while respecting non-tax governance dependencies.
• Define maker, reviewer, approver and completion evidence for each tax election, return, payment, accounting entry and authority communication.
• Test priority execution packs in tabletop rehearsals and correct gaps before any irreversible step enters the implementation calendar.
• Deliver an accepted closeout record of completed artifacts, excluded services, blocked entities and named post-project obligations.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 17 years in international corporate tax, including Director-level design or execution control for legal-entity rationalisation across several jurisdictions.
• A simplification case where tax attributes, residence, controversy or filing tail materially changed the preferred legal route.
• Breadth across corporate reorganisations, distributions, withholding, attributes, transfer pricing, tax accounting and procedural clearances.
• Evidence of reconciling entity populations across legal, tax and accounting records before making recommendations.
• Experience presenting several defensible options with ranges and stop conditions rather than converting incomplete facts into one deterministic answer.
• Ability to coordinate legal, finance and tax execution while preserving each function's reserved authority and evidence duties.
• Completion discipline demonstrated through accepted artifacts, unresolved-risk ownership and controlled exclusion of implementation services.

Working terms and boundaries

• The nine-month engagement requires four days a week and is paid through five artifact-based acceptance milestones.
• Tax technical conclusions and legal-entity execution controls have separate named acceptors; both approvals are required at final close.
• Complete entity, return, balance, agreement, ownership and dispute records are dated client dependencies in the project plan.
• Legal drafting, liquidator duties, filing execution, valuation and system change are outside the project fee and require formal variation.
• Final acceptance requires reconciled population, approved decision packs, rehearsed controls and named ownership of all blocked or residual matters.

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 12 October 2026. Mandate reference TAX-CON-2026-GVA-24.