Executive Director, Asia Corporate Tax

Aumni; Mumbai; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 12,000,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Mumbai seeks Executive Director, Asia Corporate Tax to lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of tax professionals within the India Corporate Centre Tax Team, providing strategic tax oversight and guidance across domestic and cross-border matters.

You will drive succession planning, build strong stakeholder partnerships, and ensure talent capability aligns with global tax priorities and governance.

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant with at least 15 years of tax experience.
• Experience leading a multidisciplinary tax team in a global organisation.
• Strong ability to influence senior stakeholders and build trusted relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a 70+ member India Corporate Centre Tax team.
• Drive technical oversight and complex tax projects.
• Set expectations, coach and mentor team members, ensure succession planning.
• Align with global tax priorities and robust risk management.
• Collaborate with country and line-of-business tax teams on domestic and cross-border matters.
• Define and execute India team strategy with governance and scalability.

Skills

Tax leadership

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Tax technical knowledge

Education

Chartered Accountant (CA) or equivalent

Job description

Job Overview

We are offering an opportunity for an experienced senior tax professional to join our dynamic and expanding global Corporate Tax Team. This role involves leading our 70 person India Corporate Centre Tax team in Mumbai and requires tax technical experience, together with the ability to oversee or contribute to complex tax matters, projects, and strategic initiatives.

This team operates as an extension of our global Corporate Tax colleagues across jurisdictions and lines of business.

Job Description

As an Executive Director, Asia Corporate Tax within the India Corporate Centre Tax Team, you will lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of tax professionals while providing strategic tax technical oversight and guidance.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead, engage, and develop a multidisciplinary team of 70+ tax professionals, accelerating capability building across a junior-heavy population.
• Build and sustain a high-performance culture grounded in technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
• Set clear expectations, role clarity, and measurable outcomes, with regular feedback, coaching, and mentoring.
• Drive effective succession planning and development planning to strengthen bench strength and continuity.
• Ensure the team has the right skills, capacity, and operating discipline to meet evolving global priorities.
• Lead constructively through change, competing priorities, and complex people or delivery matters.
• Provide strategic oversight and guidance on tax technical matters and tax risk management (including meaningful individual contribution).
• Contribute to complex domestic and cross-border tax matters, technical analysis, and strategic projects in partnership with country and line-of-business tax teams.
• Apply sound judgment to identify, assess, and clearly communicate tax risks, technical positions, and practical resolution options.
• Act as a technical resource for strategic global initiatives, supporting robust tax risk management and compliance.
• Define and execute the India Corporate Centre Tax Team strategy aligned to Global Corporate Tax priorities, standardizing execution, scaling delivery, improving processes/controls/technology/data, ensuring quality and governance, and building strong senior stakeholder partnerships globally.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Chartered Accountant or equivalent professional qualification, with at least 15 years of relevant tax experience, ideally within financial services.
• Strong tax technical knowledge and practical experience, together with the ability to oversee, guide and challenge work across a multidisciplinary tax team.
• Proven experience leading, developing and retaining high-performing professional teams in a complex global organization.
• Experience working across jurisdictions and cultures, with a strong record of influencing senior stakeholders and building trusted relationships.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical capability, tax judgement and risk awareness, with a proactive approach to problem-solve and the confidence to make decisions and elevate appropriately.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, lead through change and deliver consistently in a fast-paced environment.
• High standards of integrity, ownership and collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience operating at Executive Director level or at a comparable senior level in a global financial institution, Big 4 advisory firm or multinational corporate environment.
• Experience developing and executing a strategic vision for a new or evolving function or team.
• Broad knowledge of international tax principles and practical experience across one or more relevant tax disciplines.

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Global Finance & Business Management works to strategically manage capital, drive growth and efficiencies, maintain financial reporting and proactively manage risk. By providing information, analysis and recommendations to improve results and drive decisions, teams ensure the company can navigate all types of market conditions while protecting our fortress balance sheet.

This Executive Director role will define and execute the strategic direction of the India Corporate Centre Tax Team.