Chief Financial Officer, Technology Services Cash Recovery — Interim

The mandate

A mid-sized technology services company needs executive finance cover to establish reliable cash visibility and resolve reconciliation differences, while preserving live customer delivery and essential supplier relationships. The interim CFO takes a bounded operating-company seat, establishing the evidence and control needed to distinguish a recoverable liquidity problem from an unsupported financial position.

The fixed six-month assignment starts on 26 October 2026, with no extension and a permanent CFO search running concurrently. Its opening fortnight must establish verified cash, near-term obligations and the collection evidence behind major receivables. Subsequent work restores close reliability, payment governance and a finance team capable of sustaining those routines when the permanent successor assumes responsibility.

Handover requires a board-accepted liquidity baseline, two controlled closes, documented resolution or escalation of material reconciliation differences and a permanent CFO able to run the cash review independently. The interim is not expected to guarantee recovery of disputed receivables or obtain a financing outcome outside the board's control. Success rests on reliable evidence, authorised decisions and operating continuity within the resources actually available.

The CFO may direct finance staff, prioritise authorised payments and implement proportionate control repairs inside the existing delegation. Additional borrowing, permanent restructuring and concessions to material customers require board or chief-executive approval. Qualified legal and tax advisers determine specialist positions; any suspected misconduct follows the authorised investigation route. Financial control ownership does not authorise the interim to conduct an unrestricted review of individual conduct independently.

The assignment excludes replacing the full finance technology estate, acquiring another business and redesigning technical delivery operations. Customer and supplier conversations belong in scope only where they support authorised finance decisions and verified cash planning. The six-month endpoint must not be obscured by an ever-expanding turnaround agenda: unresolved commercial outcomes transfer transparently to the permanent leader with a credible decision record and named owners.

What you will own

• Verify the opening cash and obligation baseline through bank evidence and source records, identifying immediately which payments, receipts and balances require investigation before they enter executive liquidity decisions.
• Decide the first-quarter payment review rhythm within delegated authority, preserving essential obligations and documenting trade-offs where available cash cannot meet every operating request on its preferred timetable.
• Rebuild major receivable collection views from contract, acceptance and dispute evidence, separating an expected customer payment from a recovery assumption that requires commercial or legal resolution.
• Govern material reconciliation repair through named owners and review tests, ensuring differences are explained or transparently escalated rather than removed through entries unsupported by the underlying records.
• Establish two controlled monthly closes with proportionate review coverage, developing the eight-person team's ability to sustain financial integrity under live delivery and collection pressure.
• Present authorised funding or recovery alternatives with explicit conditions, enabling the board to decide the consequences without accepting a forecast dependent on an uncommitted lender or uncertain customer outcome.
• Transfer the seat through a successor-run cash meeting and close rehearsal, recording residual exposures, ongoing commercial owners and the final board acceptance of the finance control perimeter.

Candidate qualifications

• Senior finance, controls or turnaround leadership in technology services or a comparable operating business is required, supported by at least seven years of career experience and a recognised accounting qualification. Describe an inherited liquidity position you verified from source evidence, identifying a management assumption that changed and the decision you personally led to protect essential operations.
• Candidates must show hands-on reconciliation and close judgement, including the ability to investigate a material difference without forcing an unsupported balancing entry. Explain how you distinguished incomplete evidence, a genuine accounting issue and a matter needing an authorised investigation. The seat requires control ownership alongside restraint where misconduct, legal recovery or tax conclusions exceed the CFO's delegation.
• Experience with receivables and cash recovery must include contractual or customer acceptance uncertainty, not only routine collection chasing. Provide a case where a booked balance was an unreliable near-term receipt, the evidence used and the operating action assigned. Applicants must communicate the funding consequence candidly without promising recovery or refinancing outcomes the executive cannot independently control.
• Immediate executive availability, small-team leadership and a fixed-term handover record are essential. Show a witnessed liquidity or close transfer that proved the successor could operate without you. The assignment requires five-day attention, constructive work with commercial and delivery teams and transparent board escalation when financial resources cannot support an otherwise desirable operating choice.

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 CVU-INT-2026-IND-210.