Cash Forecasting and Liquidity Planning Director

The mandate

The interim Director will establish the connection between operating forecasts and executable cash visibility. Liquidity totals can be assembled, but timing assumptions, interdependencies and owner responses do not yet support confident short- and medium-range decisions. The successful candidate must mobilise within twenty business days and work alongside treasury and FP&A from the outset.

The assignment joins a thirteen-week direct cash view to a twelve-month driver-led outlook, with reconciliation between them. It must expose collection, payment, payroll, investment, tax and funding timing as owned assumptions while preserving an auditable explanation for differences from accrual forecasts.

Temporary authority permits the Director to set cash-submission standards, freeze issued versions, challenge unsupported timing, convene owner escalations and certify forecast-control completion. The role cannot execute funding, move cash, change bank authorities or decide supplier and customer terms. Treasury and operating owners retain those powers.

The handover target is a named permanent owner who can run weekly and monthly cycles, explain forecast error and activate the escalation playbook. Exit follows three successor-led thirteen-week updates and one monthly outlook completed within tolerance, with controls accepted jointly by the Treasurer and CFO delegate.

What you will own

• Reconstruct the opening cash position and reconcile direct and indirect views, documenting material timing, classification and scope differences.
• Establish daily cut-offs and a weekly thirteen-week process with source ownership, confidence coding and evidence for judgemental movements.
• Connect the short-range view to a rolling twelve-month liquidity outlook through explicit accrual-to-cash conversion drivers.
• Produce collections, payments, payroll, tax, investment and financing bridges whose residual differences remain below agreed materiality.
• Set trigger-based escalation for downside headroom, concentration, delayed receipts and payment bunching without assuming authority over resulting actions.
• Introduce forecast-error measures that separate timing shift, amount error, unplanned event, data defect and owner omission.
• Run controlled stress scenarios and record management options, lead times, decision owners and constraints for each threshold breach.
• Prepare a permanent owner through paired operation, reverse shadowing and documented certification against the control checklist.

Candidate qualifications

• Fifteen years or more across FP&A, treasury planning and liquidity governance, with recent Director-level interim delivery.
• Evidence of integrating direct cash and accrual-derived forecasts, including reconciliation design and measurable error reduction.
• Strong understanding of working-capital timing, cash pooling implications, funding headroom, covenant-sensitive planning and scenario triggers.
• A recovery example where apparent liquidity volatility was traced to process or ownership defects rather than economic uncertainty.
• Experience operating strict segregation between cash forecasting, funding decisions and transaction execution.
• Proof of holding dispersed assumption owners accountable through concise evidence, materiality and escalation instead of central overlays.
• Availability for on-site work in Frankfurt throughout the ten-month assignment and for an accelerated mobilisation period.

Working terms and boundaries

• The interim term is ten months at five days weekly, with a maximum two-month extension solely for unfinished handover controls.
• Forecast policy, quality gates and release recommendation are included; bank authority, funding execution and commercial term changes are excluded.
• Sensitive cash information will be handled through approved access, and working copies may not be removed from controlled environments.
• Successor selection begins by month four, reverse shadowing begins no later than month seven, and failed control tests delay final acceptance.
• The assignment closes after three weekly and one monthly successor-led cycles satisfy reconciliation, timeliness and explanation tolerances.

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 6 October 2026. Mandate reference FPA-INT-2026-FRA-10.