Europe Regional Finance Transformation Director

The mandate

The Europe Regional Finance Transformation Director will own the permanent portfolio through which finance changes process, data, controls, services and decision support across diverse markets. This is not a programme-reporting appointment. It carries authority to challenge cases, sequence regional capacity and recommend stopping work that lacks an accountable operating outcome.

During the first 100 days, the director will inventory active change, reconstruct baselines and identify collisions across close calendars, local obligations, people and data. By month six, a common stage-gate and benefits grammar should govern the portfolio. By month twelve, priority changes must show adoption and realised outcomes, while weak initiatives have been reshaped or stopped.

The director may return incomplete cases, require recovery plans and set regional portfolio standards. Country finance remains accountable for statutory outcomes; process owners own designs; sponsors own adoption; investment forums release capital. The transformation office ensures those accountabilities meet at explicit decisions.

Benefits will separate cash, cost, capacity, service and risk without double counting. Regional standardisation must solve evidenced problems and respect legitimate country obligations. Delivery volume, milestones or installed capability do not demonstrate changed finance performance.

Every initiative will carry an adoption owner and a disconfirming indicator. A reporting redesign must reduce parallel work; a service change must lower failure demand; a control initiative must alter exposure; and released capacity needs an approved disposition. Benefits that exist only in project models will be returned for evidence.

The enduring objective is a regional transformation capability with strong market leads, succession and honest value assurance. External support should leave reusable knowledge and controlled artifacts rather than permanent dependency.

Portfolio health will be examined quarterly through decision ageing, sponsor capacity, adoption proof and benefit confidence. The director will expose markets overloaded by simultaneous change and initiatives competing for the same data or specialists. That evidence enables explicit displacement choices instead of letting every programme retain nominal priority.

Where outcomes underperform, the review will distinguish a defective change from weak adoption, poor baseline or altered external conditions. Sponsors must choose recovery, redesign or closure and preserve the reasoning. This creates a regional learning record instead of repeatedly launching similar work under new programme names.

What you will own

• Establish an authoritative transformation portfolio with baseline, owner, dependency, control effect and capacity.
• Introduce evidence-led investment and stage gates across regional initiatives.
• Re-sequence work around close, statutory, talent and adoption constraints.
• Exercise authority to return cases and recommend pause or termination.
• Assure benefits without overlap across cash, cost, capacity, service and risk.
• Govern standardisation through obligation evidence and market adoption tests.
• Build regional and country transformation leadership with succession.
• Report first-year realised value, unresolved exposure and next portfolio choices.

Candidate qualifications

• Show permanent ownership of a multi-market finance transformation portfolio.
• Provide an initiative you stopped after testing evidence or execution capacity.
• Demonstrate benefits assurance and prevention of duplicate claims.
• Evidence respect for statutory obligations while driving regional standards.
• Describe adoption proven through changed work rather than milestone completion.
• Show internal capability built after external partners departed.

Working terms and boundaries

• This is a full-time permanent role owning regional portfolio standards, sequence and transformation talent.
• Statutory accountability, process design, adoption and capital approval remain with designated leaders.
• The director can recommend stopping work but cannot bypass investment governance.
• First-year assessment covers portfolio choices, adoption, realised value and capability depth.
• Long-term incentives follow applicable plan rules.

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 5 October 2026. Mandate reference RHF-PER-2026-AMS-95.