Director, Intercompany Accounting and Elimination Governance

The mandate

The Director will permanently own the accounting governance that connects reciprocal recording, dispute resolution and group elimination. The objective is not to chase mismatches after submission. It is to define how economically identical activity is recognised consistently, how differences are surfaced before consolidation and how elimination logic remains traceable when balances, profits, ownership or currencies complicate the result.

The first ninety days will map transaction classes, material asymmetries, timing conventions, dispute queues and the recurring manual interventions used at group level. The Director will identify whether each pattern arises from accounting policy, cut-off, source evidence, classification, currency or execution. That diagnostic becomes a first-year control and capability agenda.

Authority includes issuing intercompany accounting instructions, defining confirmation and dispute deadlines, requiring correction of unsupported differences and approving routine elimination governance within delegation. Material policy judgments and ownership-accounting conclusions remain with reserved authorities. Commercial settlement, transfer pricing and cash movement do not transfer to this role.

By midyear, material counterparties should operate agreed cut-off and confirmation rules with named dispute owners. At year end, aged unexplained mismatches, recurring top-side eliminations and late profit adjustments should be visibly lower. The Director will maintain a problem-led dashboard that exposes causes and financial consequence, not celebrate the gross number of items cleared.

The role must build durable bilateral accountability: both sides of a transaction own resolution and the group team is not a permanent repair shop. Regional finance leaders will be developed to adjudicate standard disputes and recognise when a question is actually a policy matter requiring escalation.

What you will own

• Establish accounting and cut-off conventions for material intercompany transaction classes and publish accountable exception routes.
• Introduce reciprocal confirmation before consolidation intake, with thresholds based on reporting consequence and judgment.
• Classify mismatches by root cause and require bilateral owners to resolve or formally escalate them within set ageing bands.
• Govern elimination rules for balances, profit and other recurring classes, preserving linkage from local record to group adjustment.
• Challenge recurring top-side entries and direct permanent correction where the underlying local accounting is deficient.
• Report unresolved items by value, age, cause, ownership and risk rather than a single aggregate count.
• Separate accounting mismatch resolution from settlement, tax and pricing responsibilities while coordinating necessary facts.
• Develop regional adjudicators and test their ability to resolve standard cases without central intervention.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate Director-level ownership of intercompany accounting and elimination across multiple currencies or reporting bases.
• Provide a recurring mismatch you eliminated at source and the evidence that showed it did not return.
• Explain how you handled a bilateral dispute where each entity’s records appeared individually defensible.
• Show technical depth in unrealised profit, ownership effects, currency differences and consolidation adjustment evidence.
• Evidence a dashboard that changed behaviour by revealing root cause and accountability, not merely item age.
• Describe how you kept tax, pricing, settlement and accounting decisions connected but clearly owned.
• Show leadership development that reduced dependence on central group intervention.

Working terms and boundaries

• This permanent role owns accounting governance and first-year improvement outcomes but not commercial settlement or tax policy.
• Delegated authority covers routine conventions and evidence requirements; reserved ownership judgments require formal escalation.
• Incentives reflect source correction, reporting reliability and distributed capability rather than one-time mismatch clearance.
• Hybrid attendance will align with close governance, regional owner sessions and high-judgment resolution meetings.
• Relevant counterparty interests, prior advisory work and personal financial conflicts must be declared before disclosure.

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 5 October 2026. Mandate reference FNA-PER-2026-HKG-17.