Blockchain Financial Controls Board Adviser

The mandate

A technology venture board is assessing blockchain-enabled business infrastructure whose financial records depend partly on external custody and transaction evidence. Directors need to understand whether asset, liability and fee representations can be reconciled and who controls the evidence supporting them. The adviser will challenge that financial control posture, with specialist technology and legal owners retaining responsibility for their own security and regulatory conclusions.

The term is six months from 26 October 2026, requiring three days each month and one monthly Risk and Finance Committee session included in the retainer. A scheduled evidence discussion and annotated committee note support the cadence. For off-cycle balance or control questions, receipt is confirmed within two working days and financial observations are supplied within five working days after the necessary records have been provided.

The board's recurring question is whether management's financial claims remain defensible when custody arrangements, transaction flows or service design change. The adviser will examine ownership representations, reconciliation controls and reliance on third-party records. A publicly visible transaction is not by itself proof that the entity owns an asset, owes an obligation or may use the associated funds; the financial conclusion requires the relevant authorised evidence.

The retainer confers no line authority and entails no executive responsibility for finance operations. Management owns books, wallets and third-party relationships, while the committee determines its own oversight decisions. No directorship, audit opinion or investment recommendation to trade digital assets is offered. Renewal may be recommended by the chair after month five, with board approval of a newly scoped term no longer than twelve months.

Concurrent advisory work is acceptable if protected time and impartial judgement can be maintained. Financial interests in a relevant token, custody provider or infrastructure counterparty, and retainers for competing ventures, must be disclosed before access to papers. The chair may restrict topics or require recusal; where a conflict affects the central evidence question, the appointment cannot continue usefully. Personal trading based on confidential committee information is prohibited.

What you will own

• Test the financial evidence supporting material asset and liability representations, asking how authorised ownership records, transaction information and accounting treatment connect before directors rely on a headline balance.
• Challenge custody dependency assumptions through management and specialist evidence, identifying where access, reconciliation or counterparty changes would affect the financial record without claiming to certify technical security.
• Shape a committee control-question register that distinguishes accounting, legal and technology matters, helping directors direct each unresolved issue to the owner qualified to assess it rather than accept blended assurance.
• Probe fee and settlement representations for unsupported transaction assumptions, recommending review where observed network activity cannot by itself establish earned income, an entity obligation or usable operating cash.
• Examine the financial consequence of proposed service changes, pressing management to explain how revised custody or transaction flows would alter existing reconciliations and evidence ownership before implementation.
• Recommend clearer reporting of unresolved control limitations, preserving the difference between management assertions and independently reviewed records so committee papers do not imply confidence beyond their evidence.
• Review management's response to prior financial control questions, highlighting remaining gaps and new dependencies while leaving remediation decisions and operational execution with the authorised executive team.

Candidate qualifications

• Candidates require at least seven years of finance experience with senior responsibility in technology, fintech or multi-unit control design, including practical exposure to blockchain-related financial records or business infrastructure. Provide a case where transaction information was insufficient to support the claimed balance and explain the additional evidence or specialist judgement required before the financial conclusion could be accepted.
• Recognised professional accounting standing and sound reconciliation judgement are essential. Show how you distinguish ownership, accounting treatment and technical transaction evidence, and where qualified legal or technology advice is necessary. The engagement does not assume a protocol engineering career, but it requires informed financial challenge rather than accepting infrastructure terminology as a substitute for defensible records.
• Experience should demonstrate focused committee advice under uncertain and changing evidence. Describe an unresolved control limitation you communicated clearly, the consequence directors understood and the owner responsible for the next review. Applicants must avoid implying an external audit opinion, investment return guarantee or security certification through language intended only to describe financial control observations.
• Protected monthly participation, careful written preparation and a transparent interest register are required. Disclose holdings, custody-provider connections and competing venture retainers before appointment. Evidence should show practical recusal or information restrictions, with enough independence to challenge management constructively while leaving wallet operation, bookkeeping and remediation authority with the executive owners.

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 CVU-ADV-2026-IND-211.