Finance Business Partnering Reset Director

The mandate

The interim Director will reset finance business partnering where responsibilities have drifted between report production, decision support and informal ownership of operating actions. Leaders receive substantial finance engagement, yet challenge quality and follow-through vary. The assignment will clarify the contract between finance and decision owners, recover priority routines and develop a permanent leader. Start is expected within one month.

The work will diagnose demand on partner time, eliminate activity that adds no decision value and install a small number of high-quality engagements around forecast, resource, performance and investment choices. Finance partners must bring evidence and options while refusing to become substitute operating managers.

Temporary authority includes redesigning partner portfolios, setting work standards, prioritising finance capacity and assessing role readiness. Permanent reporting-line changes, individual employment decisions and operating accountability remain outside scope. Recommendations requiring those powers go to the CFO.

Handover begins with successor identification by month three. The permanent Director must lead two monthly partner reviews, one quarterly talent calibration and one executive decision clinic. Exit is accepted when operating leaders confirm clearer value and partners demonstrate challenge, boundaries and action tracking without interim intervention.

What you will own

• Inventory partner demand by recurring product, decision served, effort, timing, duplication and accountable business owner.
• Stop or redesign low-value reporting and coordination activity, protecting statutory, control and essential decision requirements.
• Define the partnering contract covering evidence, challenge, options, action ownership, escalation and boundaries.
• Reallocate finance capacity toward decisions with greatest financial consequence, uncertainty or need for early action.
• Introduce case clinics where partners rehearse difficult challenges and receive evidence-based feedback on live work.
• Establish monthly scorecards using decision influence, action completion, analytical quality, stakeholder clarity and control integrity.
• Resolve role overlap between central analysts, local partners and specialist finance teams through explicit hand-offs.
• Certify a permanent Director after operating the partner portfolio, review cadence and talent process independently.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 15 years in FP&A and finance partnering, including interim leadership of sizeable or distributed teams.
• Evidence of reducing partner workload while improving a measurable decision or financial outcome.
• A case where you restored the boundary between finance challenge and operating ownership without weakening influence.
• Expertise across forecast, performance, investment and resource decisions sufficient to coach senior partners credibly.
• Experience assessing capability through observed work and stakeholder outcomes rather than relationship popularity.
• Proof of resolving overlapping finance roles and leaving clearer service and escalation expectations.
• Availability for on-site Manila leadership throughout the reset and permanent-successor transition.

Working terms and boundaries

• The interim engagement lasts nine months at five days a week; any three-month extension addresses only a failed successor or model criterion.
• Team deployment, work standards and readiness assessment are included; employment decisions and permanent structure changes require CFO authority.
• Finance partners advise and challenge but do not own operating actions, a boundary tested in role reviews and clinics.
• The successor assumes partner-portfolio decisions by month six and completes all four acceptance events before departure.
• Completion requires retired low-value work, reallocated capacity, operating-leader feedback and certified permanent ownership.

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 10 October 2026. Mandate reference FPA-INT-2026-MNL-46.