Annual Plan Recovery and Executive Alignment Head

The mandate

The interim Head will recover an annual plan that has reached consolidation with unresolved assumptions, inconsistent baselines and insufficient executive ownership of trade-offs. The deadline cannot simply move, yet forcing arithmetic closure would create a plan nobody can operate. The appointee must begin within fifteen business days and rapidly separate critical decisions from remediable detail.

The six-month assignment covers plan triage, assumption alignment, integrated reconciliation, resource choices, approval support and transition into the first reforecast. The work must preserve dissent and uncertainty where they are real while preventing unresolved ownership from being disguised as a central finance overlay.

Temporary authority includes resetting the recovery calendar, defining submission gates, returning unsupported plans, maintaining the decision log and recommending readiness for approval. The Head cannot approve the plan, change strategic targets or make operating resource decisions. Those choices stay with the executive forum.

Handover begins immediately because the term spans only six months. A permanent owner will co-chair final plan reviews, lead the first monthly performance cycle and deliver the first reforecast. Exit requires complete baseline lineage, ownership of remaining risks and documented lessons applied to the next planning calendar.

What you will own

• Complete a ten-day triage separating decision blockers, control failures, missing evidence and detail suitable for post-approval resolution.
• Freeze the authoritative baseline and record all approved scope, target, rate and assumption changes thereafter.
• Convene assumption councils that resolve material differences or escalate explicit choices with quantified consequences.
• Reconcile the plan across income, balance sheet, cash, resources and investment, eliminating unsupported central balancing items.
• Create executive choice papers showing options, range, constraints, opportunity cost and decision deadline.
• Establish an approval-readiness checklist with financial control, ownership, risk and action criteria.
• Convert unresolved uncertainty into named triggers and contingent responses within the first-quarter operating view.
• Transfer baseline control, performance follow-through and reforecast leadership to the permanent owner.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 16 years in FP&A and annual planning, including successful recovery of late or contested enterprise plans.
• Evidence of meeting a fixed governance date without hiding unresolved assumptions or reducing plan integrity.
• Strong integrated planning, cash, resource, investment, scenario, reconciliation and executive-paper expertise.
• A case where you escalated a genuine strategic choice rather than solving it through an unowned finance overlay.
• Experience distinguishing approval blockers from issues that can safely remain on a controlled remediation path.
• Demonstrated ability to align executives around explicit trade-offs while preserving recorded dissent.
• Availability for immediate on-site Hyderabad work and a compressed six-month transition.

Working terms and boundaries

• The appointment runs six months at five days a week; a two-month extension is restricted to a named control or transfer failure.
• Recovery calendar, quality gates and readiness recommendation are included; plan approval, targets and operating allocations are excluded.
• The Head may not create unsupported central adjustments solely to meet the deadline or manufacture executive agreement.
• A permanent owner must co-chair before approval and independently lead the first performance cycle and reforecast.
• Completion requires an approved controlled baseline, assigned contingent actions, first reforecast and signed handover.

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-HYD-50.