ASEAN Multi-Country Controllership Director

The mandate

An interim director is required to cover a regional controllership leadership gap across ASEAN while permanent succession is completed. Close quality, statutory calendars and balance ownership must continue, but inconsistent escalation and concentrated country knowledge are weakening regional visibility. The appointee will create one control position without displacing local statutory responsibility.

Within ten working days, the director will confirm critical calendars, high-risk balances, unresolved judgements, filing dependencies and deputy coverage. Temporary decisions include close priority, regional review sequence, recovery-resource deployment and enhanced evidence requirements within delegated controllership authority. Unsupported completion claims may be held pending owner proof.

The first quarter will stabilise close and statutory oversight, age material exposure and clarify which decisions remain country, regional or group matters. The interim director cannot sign local filings without formal appointment, make policy outside delegation, appoint auditors, grant access or represent the organisation externally.

Months four through seven will reduce recurrent exceptions, strengthen country-controller challenge and establish cross-market coverage for critical knowledge. Local variation will be retained where obligation is evidenced, but undocumented custom practice will not be treated as statutory necessity.

Country reviews must distinguish a delayed specialist decision from an operating failure. Where policy, tax, treasury or legal input is required, the interim leader will record the question, authorised owner, evidence and last responsible date. This prevents unresolved matters from disappearing inside local close status or being decided informally by recovery staff.

Handover begins in month seven. Acceptance occurs only when the permanent successor and named deputy can lead one complete regional close review, reproduce the exposure view, operate the escalation route and own the next statutory calendar without interim direction. Any extension exists solely for that transfer.

The successor pack will contain original and current exposures, decisions taken under temporary delegation, matters awaiting authorised judgement, a talent assessment and the next ninety days of critical dates. An item transfers only after the receiving owner confirms authority, evidence access and the action expected.

Before departure, the interim director will test whether regional reporting remains reliable during a controller absence and a compressed calendar. Country teams will run the escalation without relying on personal contacts held by the appointee. Any failure becomes a named action in the successor's first-month plan, not a reason to prolong temporary command.

The acceptance witness will record which evidence the successor requested, how competing country priorities were resolved and whether decisions stayed inside delegation. This provides a defensible transition record and exposes coaching still required before temporary authority is withdrawn.

What you will own

• Establish a regional controllership calendar linking close, balance review, judgement, statutory and assurance dependencies.
• Validate material exposure by country, owner, evidence, decision route and deadline.
• Set temporary regional review priorities and enhanced evidence standards within approved delegation.
• Distinguish supported local obligation from inherited practice and route policy questions to authorised owners.
• Reduce repeated late adjustments, unsupported reconciliations and escalation dependent on one individual.
• Build country-controller peer challenge and tested deputy coverage across representative markets.
• Preserve country signing and statutory accountability while making regional risk visible.
• Transfer the operating cadence and residual portfolio through an accepted live-cycle handover.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate interim multi-country controllership across differing statutory and close calendars.
• Show a regional exposure that local green status had obscured and how evidence changed intervention.
• Provide an example of challenging claimed statutory variation without overriding country accountability.
• Bring depth in close, balance review, judgement escalation and statutory interfaces.
• Evidence temporary decisions made strictly inside documented authority during a leadership gap.
• Describe cross-market deputy coverage that reduced concentrated country knowledge risk.
• Show a successor accepting ownership through live operation rather than document receipt alone.

Working terms and boundaries

• The interim appointment is nine months at five days a week, with travel aligned to material close and statutory cycles.
• Delegation covers regional review sequence, recovery resources and evidence thresholds, not unassigned country signing authority.
• Accounting policy outside delegation, auditor appointment, access administration and external representation are excluded.
• Handover acceptance requires successor and deputy performance through one complete regional review cycle.
• A six-week maximum extension cannot add markets or expand the recovery perimeter.

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 RHF-INT-2026-BKK-88.