International Tax Dispute Prevention Director

The mandate

The Director will own the permanent discipline that turns lessons from direct-tax disputes into earlier factual, policy and control decisions. The role does not seek to eliminate legitimate technical uncertainty. It identifies exposures created by inconsistent conduct, weak documentation, late tax involvement or repeated execution failure and ensures that accountable owners decide whether to correct, disclose or accept them before an audit begins.

The first quarter will create a dispute-cause taxonomy and compare recent controversy with current positions, filings and operating practices. Each lesson must identify the failed assumption, control or authority—not simply the jurisdiction or issue. Prevention effort will be directed by recurrence, cash and precedent consequence, and the feasibility of changing future conduct.

Authority includes setting prevention review standards, requesting evidence, selecting priority themes, directing agreed remediation and escalating contradictions within delegation. Controversy leaders retain live case strategy; policy owners retain technical approval; operating leaders retain conduct. The Director connects learning to decisions without compromising privileged case work or rewriting history.

By month twelve, priority dispute causes should have verified corrective action, material positions should carry early-warning triggers and transaction or compliance teams should involve tax at defined decision points. Senior governance should receive evidence of exposure reduced, not a list of training sessions and policy updates whose operation has not been tested.

What you will own

• Build a dispute-cause taxonomy separating fact inconsistency, policy weakness, documentation failure, control breakdown, conduct drift and procedural error.
• Compare resolved and active case themes with current transactions, filings and accounting positions to identify repeat exposure.
• Rank prevention action by potential cash, precedent, recurrence, reversibility and remaining decision lead time.
• Require each remediation to state the future behavior, control or authority change and the evidence that will demonstrate operation.
• Establish early-warning triggers for law change, ownership events, new arrangements, repeated losses, inconsistent filings and missing factual certification.
• Protect privilege by extracting operational lessons without circulating restricted strategy or settlement content.
• Test completed remediation through samples, walkthroughs or changed-fact scenarios before reporting exposure as reduced.
• Develop regional prevention owners capable of challenging conduct and escalating unresolved contradictions.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 18 years in international direct tax or controversy, including Director-level dispute prevention or risk governance.
• A recurring dispute theme you traced to a specific operating or control cause and the measurable correction achieved.
• Breadth across permanent establishments, treaties, withholding, transfer pricing, financing, compliance and tax accounting.
• Evidence of extracting reusable lessons from privileged disputes without weakening confidentiality or litigation strategy.
• Experience rejecting training or policy publication as proof of remediation until future operation was tested.
• Ability to challenge operational conduct while leaving business and technical decisions with their accountable owners.
• A record of building regional leaders who can identify and prevent cross-jurisdiction inconsistency.

Working terms and boundaries

• This permanent full-time appointment has first-year gates at cause mapping, priority remediation and independent operation testing.
• The Director owns prevention standards and delegated remediation challenge; live cases, policy approval and operations stay separately owned.
• Annual compensation includes fixed pay, target incentive and conditional performance shares under ordinary governance.
• Hybrid work includes Brussels risk forums and planned jurisdiction reviews where factual operation needs direct testing.
• Year-one success requires verified corrective actions, active warning triggers, measurable exposure reduction and capable regional owners.

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 9 October 2026. Mandate reference TAX-PER-2026-BRU-65.