Repatriation and Withholding Stabilisation Director

The mandate

The interim Director will stabilise direct-tax analysis and execution controls for cross-border cash repatriation. The current requirement is a reliable route from distributable capacity and instrument terms through withholding, treaty evidence, tax attributes, accounting and payment approval. The leader must start within four weeks, protect near-term decisions and leave a permanent owner capable of running future cycles.

The first twenty working days will map proposed and recurring cash routes, legal and accounting constraints, residence documentation, beneficial-ownership evidence, withholding rates, credits, local attributes and authority. Each route will be compared on after-tax cash, timing, evidence, reversibility and risk. Unknown facts must be assigned, not buried inside assumed net proceeds.

Temporary authority covers analysis standards, evidence gates, work sequencing and routine recommendation within delegation. Treasury owns liquidity and payment decisions; legal owners approve corporate actions; tax and board governance retain reserved positions and risk acceptance. The interim cannot execute restructurings, sign distributions, negotiate financing or remediate unrelated historic withholding matters.

Handover begins with the first controlled repatriation and ends after the successor leads a second route from proposal to reconciled cash. Departure requires approved route papers, indexed treaty and residence support, payment-to-ledger reconciliation, residual exposure ownership and a twelve-month calendar accepted by the Group Treasurer and tax sponsor.

What you will own

• Reconcile available cash routes to distributable capacity, legal form, accounting balance, tax attributes, withholding, credits and required authority.
• Establish a decision model comparing after-tax cash, execution time, evidence readiness, uncertainty, reversibility and future constraint.
• Require current residence, beneficial-ownership, treaty and domestic-relief support before recommending reduced withholding or exemption.
• Align distribution, loan, fee and capital routes with approved transfer-pricing, financing and legal positions without duplicating their governance.
• Create execution controls linking decision paper, approvals, certificates, payment instruction, withholding remittance, receipt and ledger entries.
• Track forecast versus realised net cash and identify whether variance arose from tax analysis, timing, foreign exchange or execution.
• Prepare the permanent owner through one successor-led route and a scenario involving late evidence or changed cash requirement.
• Transfer accepted route files, a controlled evidence library, residual risks and the next twelve months of decision triggers.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 16 years in international direct tax or treasury tax, including Director-level leadership of cross-border repatriation programs.
• A route you changed because treaty, beneficial-ownership, attribute or legal-capacity evidence did not support expected net cash.
• Strong knowledge of dividends, capital returns, intercompany financing, withholding, foreign-tax credits and tax-accounting consequences.
• Evidence of comparing tax with liquidity, timing, legal and reversibility constraints rather than selecting the lowest nominal leakage.
• Experience designing payment and certificate controls that connect technical analysis to cash and ledger evidence.
• Ability to operate alongside treasury and legal owners without assuming their payment or corporate-action authority.
• An interim handover involving a successor-led live cash movement and reconciliation.

Working terms and boundaries

• The nine-month engagement is five days a week; a six-week extension requires an incomplete successor-led distribution cycle.
• The interim controls tax analysis and evidence within delegation, while treasury, legal and reserved governance retain execution decisions.
• Structural implementation, financing negotiation, legal signature and unrelated historic recovery are excluded.
• Singapore presence is required for near-term decision and execution cycles, with travel approved against specific evidence needs.
• Completion requires two controlled routes, successor operation, reconciled cash and explicit ownership of all remaining exposures.

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 6 October 2026. Mandate reference TAX-INT-2026-SIN-42.