Music Acquisition Finance and Consolidation VP — Interim

The mandate

The finance VP seat holds responsibility for acquisition economics and financial reporting during an integration cycle, with deal assumptions and post-close rights reporting held by separate workstream owners. Deal models describe expected value, but territorial rights, royalty obligations and consolidation judgements do not consistently reconcile to that value. The interim will hold the VP finance seat, restoring a controlled link between acquisition economics and financial reporting without managing creative or label decisions.

The twelve-month cover begins on 19 October 2026, with five days weekly from Mumbai and scheduled multi-territory finance reviews. A permanent VP search proceeds in parallel. The early priority is to inventory approved acquisition assumptions and identify which rights, reporting and cost obligations must be verified before management relies on an integration benefit.

At handover, acquisition-finance judgements must link to retained evidence, territorial reporting must reconcile and integration benefits must have accountable measurement owners. The successor will lead a consolidation review and challenge a live synergy assumption. Finishing an acquisition is not the closure condition; the seat ends when the financial discipline and unresolved exposures are demonstrably transferred.

The VP may set finance-review gates, reject unsupported consolidation submissions and approve entries within the CFO's delegation. New transactions, changes to accounting policy and commitments beyond delegated limits require executive approval. Legal owns interpretation of rights agreements, and creative leaders retain artist and repertoire choices; finance cannot assume those authorities because an economic assumption needs validation.

Creative strategy, royalty-system replacement and fundraising execution are excluded. The sponsor provides authorised deal models, rights schedules, reporting records and nominated legal and operating contacts. The remit needs VP acquisition-finance leadership that can test territorial obligations against deal assumptions, retain unresolved rights questions and transfer supported consolidation judgements across reporting owners.

What you will own

• Decide acquisition-finance review readiness by testing rights, obligation and cost assumptions, documenting what remains conditional before a deal model informs an executive choice.
• Establish the acquisition-to-reporting bridge with territorial finance owners, reconciling consolidation scope and royalty obligations to approved sources before authorising non-routine reporting adjustments.
• Set integration benefit reviews that distinguish actual financial changes from expected commercial or cultural effects, preserving the original assumption and the current evidence.
• Approve delegated finance entries only where legal and accounting prerequisites are clear, escalating policy or rights interpretations outside the VP's authority.
• Reallocate existing analysts toward material rights and reporting uncertainties, explaining the financial exposure protected and the lower-priority work deliberately deferred.
• Chair cross-territory finance exceptions without taking over creative or legal decisions, producing an accountable conclusion and retained basis for each financial treatment.
• Transfer the acquisition judgement archive, consolidation controls and unresolved exposures through live successor execution before recommending the interim seat's closure.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate VP-level finance responsibility for acquisitions or consolidation in music, digital media or an analogous rights-based business. Explain a judgement you personally challenged, the contractual and financial evidence used and the executive authority that retained transaction approval.
• Show technical competence in IFRS or Ind AS consolidation relevant to actual experience. Candidates should describe a territorial reporting issue, the scope or obligation considered and how the financial conclusion was preserved without using a central plug.
• Evidence synergy analysis grounded in realised financial effects. Provide an acquisition assumption that changed after close, explain the operating evidence and distinguish economic benefit from a desired cultural or commercial outcome.
• Demonstrate constructive leadership across finance, legal and creative interfaces. Show how a disputed rights assumption was resolved without finance claiming legal interpretation or creative authority, and how the resulting decision was communicated to reporting owners.
• Provide proof of durable finance transfer and professional accounting capability. Explain the judgement records left for a successor and a fresh case they could process independently. Candidates must show how original deal assumptions remained available for comparison after reporting changed, and how confidential rights information was restricted to authorised users rather than copied across unrelated assignments.

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 11 October 2026. Mandate reference PCT-INT-2026-IND-13.