Regional FP&A Control Stabilisation Head

The mandate

The interim Regional Head will stabilise planning controls where local calendars, versions, exchange conventions and manual adjustments have weakened confidence in consolidated outlooks. The immediate need is not a full transformation. It is to establish a controlled minimum standard, recover the upcoming forecast and leave a permanent regional owner able to sustain it. Start is required within three weeks.

The assignment will triage control failures by financial consequence, repair baseline and consolidation discipline, and create evidence for every material adjustment. Local insight must be retained, but it cannot bypass version, approval or reconciliation rules. The recovered process should be proportionate enough to work across differing local capabilities.

Temporary authority includes setting submission gates, rejecting incomplete packages, freezing released versions and escalating unresolved control breaches. The Regional Head cannot post accounting entries, approve budgets, change legal responsibilities or redesign systems. These matters remain with their owners and are tracked only as dependencies.

The exit plan starts in month two with identification of a permanent successor. By completion, that leader must chair two regional forecast reviews, run a consolidation and close the outstanding-exception plan. Extension is reserved for a specific failed control test, not general reliance on interim capacity.

What you will own

• Complete a four-week risk-ranked assessment of baseline, version, input, adjustment, consolidation, reconciliation and release controls.
• Publish a minimum regional planning-control standard with clear evidence, ownership and exception requirements.
• Recover the next forecast through controlled submissions, local-to-regional reconciliations and a signed adjustment register.
• Standardise exchange, scope, hierarchy and cut-off conventions while documenting approved local exceptions and expiry dates.
• Establish a materiality-led issue forum that distinguishes release blockers from items suitable for monitored remediation.
• Create a control dashboard covering timeliness, resubmission, unexplained movement, manual adjustment and exception ageing.
• Coach local finance leaders to preserve judgement in transparent overlays rather than off-system versions.
• Certify the successor after two review cycles, one consolidation and completion of a critical-exception walkthrough.

Candidate qualifications

• Fifteen or more years in regional FP&A, financial control or consolidation-facing planning, with interim Head or Director assignments.
• Evidence of recovering a forecast cycle while longer-term process or data remediation remained incomplete.
• Strong expertise in baseline, version, cut-off, currency, hierarchy, adjustment, reconciliation and release controls.
• A case where you designed a proportionate minimum standard across markets with different capability levels.
• Experience preserving local judgement through governed adjustments without allowing parallel forecasts to proliferate.
• Clear understanding of the boundary between FP&A controls and accounting-entry or legal-entity authority.
• Availability for sustained on-site Nairobi leadership and structured successor development from the second month.

Working terms and boundaries

• The assignment is eight months at five days weekly; a two-month extension requires an identified failed remediation or handover test.
• Interim authority covers planning submissions, consolidation controls and release readiness, excluding ledger, budget and systems ownership.
• Local exceptions require owner, rationale, financial effect, compensating control and expiry; permanent waivers are not within interim discretion.
• The successor begins shadowing by month three and assumes review leadership no later than month six.
• Completion requires a recovered forecast, operating dashboard, closed critical exceptions and successor certification.

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 6 October 2026. Mandate reference FPA-INT-2026-NBO-34.