Southern Cone Multi-Country Finance Blueprint Director

The mandate

This five-month project will produce a finance blueprint for a Southern Cone portfolio, clarifying country, cluster and group responsibilities without publishing client characteristics. It must address performance, controllership, cash, capital, services and talent through executable decisions.

Five dated milestones are required: evidence baseline by 23 October 2026; alternative designs by 20 November; chosen accountability blueprint by 15 January 2027; transition and capability plan by 26 February; final handover by 31 March. The Group Chief Financial Officer accepts each against evidence, completeness and practical usability.

The director will test how inflation, currency, liquidity and statutory differences affect genuine local ownership. The model cannot use these conditions as justification for every inherited practice. Design options must state the cost, control, information and resilience consequences of placement.

The blueprint will include a management-capacity test for each proposed responsibility. A country or cluster owner must possess authority, analytical skill, information access, calendar capacity and credible deputy coverage. Where those conditions are absent, the roadmap will stage capability before transfer rather than create nominal accountability.

Management provides authorised decision, process, role, calendar and control evidence. The director may recommend structure and sequence but cannot approve policy, choose people, change banking authority, select providers or implement the model.

Final acceptance requires decision catalogues, forums, service interfaces, capability implications and wave tests usable by a separate implementation team.

The final blueprint will include example decisions worked from source evidence through authority, action and review. It will state how country finance escalates liquidity or statutory constraint, how clusters challenge performance and how group leaders resolve cross-market capital conflict. These cases provide implementation teams with behavioural standards, not just structural labels.

Capability implications will be costed and sequenced. Where the proposed owner lacks information, analytical depth or credible cover, transition waits for an evidenced development action instead of creating a ceremonial responsibility.

Capability implications will identify roles requiring stronger commercial challenge, controllership depth, treasury judgement or cross-country coordination. The roadmap will sequence those capabilities before transferring the relevant decisions. A new title without information access or practical authority will not count as completed design.

What you will own

• Evidence current decisions and finance work across country and cluster boundaries.
• Classify local requirements by statutory, economic, liquidity and operating basis.
• Compare at least three accountability and service options.
• Define performance, control, cash, capital, data and talent ownership.
• Design forums that conclude decisions with evidence and owners.
• Establish transition waves with prerequisites and acceptance tests.
• Recommend the blueprint while management retains approvals.
• Hand over a residual-choice ledger and executable plan.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate multi-country finance-model design in volatile economic conditions.
• Show how you separated genuine local need from inherited custom.
• Provide an option altered after liquidity, control or talent testing.
• Evidence decision-right precision beyond organisation charts.
• Bring cross-functional finance breadth and sensitive people judgement.
• Show fixed-fee milestone and input dependency control.

Working terms and boundaries

• Five milestone artifacts are delivered across five months with four consulting days committed weekly.
• Acceptance rests with the Group Chief Financial Officer and requires evidenced choices, internal integrity and practical executability.
• Management supplies authorised evidence and participant access.
• Policy, people, bank authority, provider choice and implementation are excluded.
• Added markets require written artifact, schedule and fee change.

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 RHF-CON-2026-BUE-02.