Post-Acquisition Tax Integration Director

The mandate

The Director will own the tax discipline that carries an acquired tax perimeter from closing facts into stable policy, compliance, accounting and controversy ownership. The permanent need is not a one-off checklist. It is a repeatable integration method that preserves elections and procedural rights, reconciles opening positions and ensures new operating conduct follows approved direct-tax and transfer-pricing decisions.

In the first ninety days, the leader will establish a complete integration register covering entities, attributes, filings, authority matters, uncertain positions, intercompany arrangements, withholding, financing and data dependencies. Each item will state its fact source, deadline, decision right, accounting consequence and end-state owner. Unknowns must stay visible until resolved.

Authority includes setting tax integration standards, assigning workstream owners, approving routine actions within delegation, returning inadequate evidence and escalating reserved structural or reporting decisions. Legal owners control entity steps, financial reporting controls opening balances, and local authorised officers retain filing sign-off. The Director coordinates but does not absorb those accountabilities.

By month twelve, priority tax choices must be implemented and evidenced, recurring obligations must sit with capable permanent owners, opening tax balances must reconcile to settled facts, and residual matters must have funded plans. Lessons from the first integration cycle should become reusable gates for future decisions rather than remain embedded in project memory.

What you will own

• Establish an integration register linking each tax matter to acquired facts, due date, financial effect, dependency, authority and durable owner.
• Validate residence, entity status, tax attributes, elections, filing history, intercompany positions and inherited controversy before downstream use.
• Protect time-limited elections, amended-return rights, clearances and response dates through controlled lead-time escalation.
• Reconcile opening current and deferred tax, uncertain positions and tax accounts to diligence facts and post-close evidence.
• Align transfer-pricing policy, agreements, calculations and future documentation with approved operating conduct and decision control.
• Require completion evidence for structural, filing, accounting and control actions rather than accepting project-status statements.
• Transfer each workstream through owner acceptance, operating rehearsal and explicit residual-risk funding.
• Convert integration defects and decisions into reusable tax gates, evidence standards and Day-One readiness criteria.

Candidate qualifications

• Seventeen or more years spanning cross-border and transaction tax, with personal Director-level accountability for taking acquired tax matters into stable post-close ownership.
• An integration where a post-close fact changed a diligence assumption, opening balance or planned tax action, with the response described.
• Breadth across entity status, attributes, filings, tax accounting, controversy, withholding, financing and transfer pricing.
• Evidence of preserving a time-sensitive election or procedural right through disciplined post-close governance.
• Experience reconciling tax diligence findings to opening accounting and permanent operational ownership.
• Ability to coordinate legal, accounting and local tax authorities without obscuring their reserved decisions.
• A reusable integration framework you improved after measuring defects in a completed cycle.

Working terms and boundaries

• This ongoing full-time appointment has first-year gates at population validation, priority implementation and permanent-owner acceptance.
• The Director owns integration governance and delegated actions; legal structure, material accounting and local signatures remain separately authorised.
• Annual compensation combines fixed pay, target bonus and conditional restricted shares under normal vesting and approval.
• Hybrid work includes Toronto decision forums and scheduled jurisdiction travel only where implementation evidence requires direct review.
• Year-one success means protected rights, reconciled balances, evidenced actions, capable owners and an improved reusable integration method.

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-TOR-53.