National Tax Head — Software Export Entities and Incentive Evidence Controls

The mandate

A software-export organisation is bringing its Indian entity and unit tax governance into a national-head role. Business expansion has changed delivery locations, service allocations and intercompany charging, while incentive and export evidence still follows older operating boundaries. The role offers open-ended employment with a twenty-four-month opening agenda to reconcile those facts and establish dependable controls. The national head will own the tax consequences of the actual operating model, rather than assume that an entity's historical status validates every activity subsequently assigned to it.

The priority is a unit-and-entity map showing where work is performed, which entity contracts for it and what evidence supports the associated tax positions. SEZ and STPI arrangements need specialist review against applicable conditions and current activity; the role must not suggest that a label provides perpetual entitlement. You will coordinate direct-tax, GST, export and transfer-pricing evidence so changes in one stream trigger review in the others. Operating teams require practical notification and approval routes when they move work or alter delivery responsibility.

Fifteen colleagues work through tax and export-compliance leads. The national head approves routine positions under regional policy, sets evidence ownership and requires correction of unsupported claims before filing. New incentive interpretations, material controversy and changes to the entity operating model are reserved for the Asia tax vice president and relevant executives. Facilities and delivery leaders own physical operations, counsel supplies legal interpretation and finance owns accounting records. You must create concurrence that is useful at the point of change, not a retrospective catalogue of arrangements that should have been reviewed earlier.

The first programme should leave a reconciled activity map, tested incentive-evidence controls and a complete intercompany compliance calendar with trained deputies. Subsequent responsibility includes monitoring eligibility assumptions, supporting audits and refreshing positions as the group reorganises work. Bengaluru is the base, with planned unit visits in Hyderabad and Pune. The role's value lies in credible national leadership and continuity: protecting a justified position, correcting one whose facts no longer hold and making the difference intelligible without claiming certainty where law or evidence remains unresolved.

What you will own

• Build the unit-and-entity activity map from delivery, contracting and accounting records, exposing locations or arrangements whose current operation differs materially from the facts used to support historical tax positions.
• Decide routine evidence concurrence for incentive and export-related claims within approved policy, escalating changed conditions or uncertain interpretations before unsupported amounts enter a filing or management forecast.
• Establish notifications for moved work, altered service scope and entity responsibility, requiring delivery owners to seek timely specialist review rather than treat tax as a retrospective compliance recipient.
• Reconcile direct-tax, GST, export and intercompany evidence around a common transaction description, resolving differences before separate filings or adviser submissions create contradictory factual accounts of the same activity.
• Set the national audit-support and compliance calendar with deputy ownership and source controls, testing whether each unit can produce the required evidence without emergency reconstruction by central tax staff.
• Develop tax and export-compliance leads through case reviews and operating visits, strengthening their ability to challenge changed facts while retaining appropriate regional escalation of material policy and dispute decisions.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate deep Indian software-export tax experience, including practical responsibility for SEZ, STPI or comparable unit-and-entity compliance evidence. Explain a position you re-examined after delivery activity or business responsibility changed. Your proof should identify the factual gap, the specialist analysis and the control introduced, rather than imply that a historical approval automatically supported all later claims or operating arrangements.
• Have twenty-two to twenty-eight years in tax or senior finance-tax practice with broad direct-tax, GST and intercompany compliance exposure. Strong professional accounting or tax standing is expected. You must understand how separate obligations can rely on the same transaction facts and recognise when an apparently minor delivery change requires a wider technical reassessment or regional policy decision.
• Evidence constructive leadership with delivery, facilities and finance teams whose operational changes affected tax assumptions. Describe how you obtained accurate activity data without creating unusable approval bureaucracy. The required judgement includes collaboration with local advisers, willingness to correct a previously accepted position and a clear distinction between financial evidence, legal interpretation and the business executive's authority to decide operating strategy.
• Show management of specialist teams and deputies through repeatable evidence processes, audits and difficult filing deadlines. You should have maintained confidential unit data securely, reconciled source records and communicated eligibility uncertainty plainly. Regular operating-unit visits and a practical approach to change notification are integral; the role needs controls that continue to work when delivery teams are busy and the national head is not personally reviewing every movement.

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 14 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-PER-2026-IND-031.