Intercompany Accounting Backlog Resolution Director

The mandate

An interim director is required to resolve a persistent intercompany accounting backlog and establish ownership that survives the recovery. Differences have accumulated through mismatched timing, currency, pricing, settlement, coding and counterparty treatment. Local clearing activity has reduced selected balances without consistently resolving the originating disagreement, limiting confidence in both close and settlement.

Within the first 15 working days, the director will freeze cosmetic ageing resets, reconcile the authoritative population and introduce pair-based case ownership. Each material difference must identify both counterparties, origin, accounting consequence, settlement state, evidence gap and decision route. The director may assign recovery resources and stop unsupported clearing entries within documented controllership authority.

The first quarter will prioritise exposure, recurrence and close consequence rather than age alone. Settlement differences, invoicing mismatches, foreign-exchange effects, allocation errors and policy disputes require different treatments. The director will force policy questions to designated accounting owners while ensuring operational teams do not wait indefinitely for decisions.

Months four through eight will close root causes, standardise agreement and confirmation routines, and prove that new differences do not regenerate the recovered population. The role excludes setting transfer prices, making tax determinations, approving accounting policy, changing legal agreements or directing treasury transactions. Those dependencies are tracked but not absorbed.

From month nine, a permanent owner and deputy will take increasing control of pair governance, issue escalation and close certification inputs. The interim leader will leave a reconciled residual portfolio, root-cause record, recurring controls and 90-day successor agenda. Any extension is solely for incomplete transition.

What you will own

• Establish one authoritative intercompany population by counterparty pair, cause, currency, period, settlement state and financial exposure.
• Prevent ageing reset or unsupported netting from masquerading as resolution by requiring source-to-disposition evidence.
• Assign bilateral case ownership and escalation dates so differences cannot remain orphaned between entities.
• Exercise temporary authority over recovery resource sequencing and the evidential standard for clearing entries.
• Separate operational mismatches from accounting, tax, legal and treasury decisions and route each to the proper owner.
• Implement pre-close agreement, invoicing, confirmation, settlement and reconciliation routines that reduce new difference creation.
• Demonstrate a declining inflow and sustained closure quality over three representative cycles.
• Transfer governance to a permanent owner and deputy with residual exposures and unresolved policy dependencies visible.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate executive recovery of material intercompany balances across entities, currencies and close cycles.
• Show how you detected balances that had been netted, re-aged or transferred without true bilateral resolution.
• Bring depth in intercompany invoicing, confirmation, settlement, foreign exchange, reconciliation and elimination interfaces.
• Provide an example of separating an operational issue from a tax or accounting-policy decision while maintaining momentum.
• Evidence firm bilateral ownership across finance teams with competing local priorities.
• Describe controls that prevented a cleared backlog from regenerating during subsequent closes.
• Show a permanent handover with transparent residual balances and decision dependencies.

Working terms and boundaries

• The interim appointment is eleven months at five days a week, with hybrid attendance aligned to close and settlement cycles.
• Recovery sequencing and clearing-evidence standards operate within documented controllership delegation.
• Transfer pricing, tax, legal-agreement, accounting-policy and treasury transaction decisions are excluded.
• Permanent-owner transition begins by month nine and includes a trained deputy and pair-level residual portfolio.
• Handover is accepted only when the successor and deputy can run pair governance, reproduce the residual population and own escalation through a live close without interim intervention.
• Any extension is capped at six weeks and limited to completing that successor transfer.

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 12 October 2026. Mandate reference FNA-INT-2026-BRU-27.