Global Director, Disclosure Governance

The mandate

The Global Director will create lasting governance over the full disclosure requirement universe, with particular focus on completeness, ownership and response to change. Unlike production leadership, this role owns the architecture that tells finance which disclosures apply, which facts support them, who approves them and what event should trigger reassessment.

The first quarter will inventory requirements, identify duplicate or orphaned controls and trace significant disclosures to source owners. The appointee will test whether a requirement remains applicable, whether evidence is contemporaneous and whether change monitoring reaches accountable preparers early enough. An agreed risk model will direct effort toward disclosures with judgment, dispersed sources or changing facts.

Authority includes issuing governance standards, assigning finance ownership, rejecting incomplete evidence and chairing requirement-change decisions. Final content and publication approvals remain with designated executives, while legal and regulatory interpretations remain with their owners. The Director must make handoffs explicit so that governance does not turn into undisclosed central preparation.

By month six, an authoritative requirements inventory, owner map and evidence standard should operate. By year end, change events should be captured prospectively, significant disclosure controls tested to clear criteria and recurring completeness surprises reduced. The Director will report control health through evidence age, unowned requirements and late change impact, not the mere number of checklists completed.

The permanent remit includes developing disclosure stewards across reporting domains. Each steward should understand the requirement’s purpose, challenge source evidence and know when a change needs technical escalation. The operating model must survive new requirements without rebuilding governance from scratch.

What you will own

• Establish an authoritative disclosure-requirement inventory with applicability rationale, owner, evidence and change trigger.
• Remove duplicate controls and assign orphaned requirements to accountable finance or specialist owners.
• Define evidence standards that distinguish source facts, accounting judgment, legal interpretation and final approval.
• Create prospective change monitoring with impact assessments completed before reporting production begins.
• Direct risk-based testing of significant disclosure controls and require remediation of failed criteria.
• Report unresolved applicability, ownership and evidence issues to senior accounting governance.
• Govern additions and retirements so inherited disclosure practice cannot persist without an applicable basis.
• Develop domain stewards and deputies through scenario testing and calibrated decision authority.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate enterprise disclosure-governance ownership beyond document drafting or checklist administration.
• Describe an overlooked applicability or completeness issue discovered through a requirement inventory.
• Show how you separated accounting, legal, factual and approval ownership around one complex disclosure.
• Evidence a change-monitoring process that moved analysis ahead of the reporting timetable.
• Provide measures that exposed stale evidence or nominal control completion.
• Explain how you retired unnecessary activity without weakening disclosure completeness.
• Show development of distributed disclosure stewards able to challenge source owners.

Working terms and boundaries

• This permanent full-time appointment owns disclosure governance architecture and first-year adoption.
• The Director may set standards and evidence requirements but does not hold every interpretation or publication approval.
• Incentives reflect applicability accuracy, timely change response and steward capability rather than checklist volume.
• Scheduled travel supports governance forums, owner workshops and selected reporting periods.
• Conflicts involving assurance, legal, reporting technology or financial interests require review before access.

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 9 October 2026. Mandate reference FNA-PER-2026-BRU-37.