Acquired-Product Financial Integration and Revenue Bridge — Consulting Lead

The mandate

Acquired software products are reported through inconsistent revenue and cost definitions, preventing a reliable view of post-acquisition performance. The consultant will design the finance integration package for those definitions and ownership boundaries. The narrow scope excludes transaction valuation and product integration execution, even where their conclusions become necessary finance inputs.

The deliverable is an Acquired-Product Finance Integration Pack containing opening bridges, recurring-revenue reconciliations, reporting policy dependencies, close responsibility maps and an operator playbook. It must preserve the distinction between organic change, acquisition effects and accounting alignment. Unresolved purchase-accounting or product-data questions are recorded as dependencies rather than answered through invented assumptions.

Acquired-product finance discovery begins on 19 October 2026 within a six-month fixed scope. Milestone one on 18 December 2026 delivers the baseline and sample revenue bridge; milestone two on 18 February 2027 produces integration rules and a controlled close pilot; milestone three on 18 April 2027 completes fresh-period tests, internal operator rehearsal and accepted residual dependencies. Payment stages are 25%, 35% and 40% after review.

Acceptance rests with the India finance head and regional integration sponsor. They must reconcile sampled operational revenue measures to ledger outcomes, identify the correct owner for policy exceptions and reproduce the close bridge without consultant explanation. Final approval requires a new-period run that maintains comparability even when an acquired product changes billing or operational reporting definitions.

The sponsor provides authorised ledgers, contract samples, product-metric definitions and access to accounting-policy and integration reviewers. Production permissions remain limited and sensitive customer data is minimised. Fair-value opinions, systems procurement, customer migrations and historical restatement are excluded; new dependencies requiring substantive reconstruction must be priced and accepted through written change control.

What you will own

• Catalogue acquired-product revenue and cost definitions with source owners and policy dependencies, identifying where management metrics cannot be compared directly across products or reporting periods.
• Reconcile sample subscription movements to ledger revenue and cash, separating acquired balances, billing changes and organic customer activity before designing the recurring-revenue bridge.
• Define integration adjustment rules with retained regional approvals, showing the unadjusted reporting position and preventing local analysts from assuming purchase-accounting or valuation authority.
• Construct close responsibility maps that distinguish preparation, policy review and final acceptance across India and regional finance teams handling the acquired-product outputs.
• Pilot the bridge on difficult cases involving billing amendments or changed metric definitions, recording residual inconsistencies and the evidence required for their eventual disposition.
• Validate internal users through a fresh-period run and exception exercise, ensuring the playbook explains when an issue must remain open for regional specialist judgement.
• Deliver the accepted integration pack, source dictionary and maintenance triggers, with change-control guidance that prevents later acquisitions from being added to the model without review.

Candidate qualifications

• Show responsible software finance integration work involving acquired products, recurring-revenue measures and continuing close operations. Provide a redacted bridge with the personal method and approval boundary identified. Transaction support without delivery of maintainable post-acquisition reporting is insufficient for this six-month consulting assignment.
• Demonstrate accounting expertise in subscription revenue, consolidation and policy comparability, supported by a relevant finance qualification or equivalent senior practice. Explain a management metric that could not be reconciled without revising its source definition. The consultant must understand when valuation, product or authorised accounting-policy specialists are needed and retain their conclusions accurately.
• Provide analytical delivery evidence with reproducible calculations, controlled source access and a fresh-period test that exposed a defect. Describe the rework and reviewer acceptance. No particular software brand is prescribed; the emphasis is on evidence lineage, comparison logic and an internal team able to operate the pack without hidden author adjustments.
• Establish twenty-two years of relevant experience and project governance across regional and local stakeholders. Show a handover with unresolved dependencies named honestly and a scope change priced rather than absorbed. Acquisition origination fees, software resale or contingent remuneration tied to reported synergies would compromise this independent finance integration design and must be disclosed.

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 12 October 2026. Mandate reference PCT-CON-2026-IND-26.