Regional Group Chief Financial Officer — Engineering Ventures and Project Risk

The mandate

Engineering ventures in a regional group hold project interests through wholly owned companies and partnerships. Their commitments include performance guarantees, equity contributions and operating support that do not always appear together in investment papers. The regional group CFO will own the financial boundary between each project and the wider group. A project described as independently funded must not create an unexamined corporate obligation when a guarantee is called or a partner cannot meet its agreed contribution.

The employment relationship is open-ended. The first twenty-four months will establish an investment obligation register, strengthen venture reporting and align the regional funding plan to realistic project exposure. Forty-nine staff work through venture controllers and regional finance managers. Delhi NCR is the base, with travel for selected partner and project reviews. This is regional group financial leadership across several investments, with operating executives retaining responsibility for engineering delivery.

The CFO may set reporting and finance risk standards, govern approved funding and require complete financial conditions before endorsement of a new venture commitment. New guarantees, changes to partner rights, additional equity contributions outside approval and settlement of major project claims remain board matters. Qualified legal advisers determine enforceability and contractual interpretation. Finance must show the possible cash consequences clearly enough that directors can make those decisions without mistaking accounting presentation for protection against economic loss.

Continuing accountability includes regional accounts, treasury, investment assessment and financial communication with capital providers. The role excludes certifying project completion, accepting engineering designs and managing construction claims as legal counsel. Success should be visible in obligations that are traceable to authority, partnership reporting that supports meaningful oversight and investment cases that preserve downside alternatives. A venture cannot be declared financially contained merely because its debt is recorded in another company while the group remains exposed through guarantees or practical support expectations.

What you will own

• Establish a project and venture obligation register covering equity commitments, guarantees, partner contributions and contingent support, linking each item to approval evidence and the conditions under which corporate cash may be required.
• Govern financial reporting across controlled and partnered investments, ensuring ownership assessments and specialist accounting conclusions are supported by current agreements rather than carried forward from historical treatment without review.
• Evaluate proposed venture structures with legal and treasury specialists, explaining how funding rights, guarantees and default remedies change the group's downside exposure before directors commit to a partner or project arrangement.
• Decide the allocation of already approved regional funding against documented milestones, escalating unmet partner contributions or altered project assumptions instead of compensating automatically through unexamined holding-company support.
• Negotiate financing alternatives that distinguish project resources from corporate facilities, showing lenders and directors where guarantees, cross-defaults or support conditions reduce the intended separation of investment risk.
• Present project investment reviews through cash obligations and recoverable value, distinguishing a delivery delay from a deterioration in the financial case and identifying the point at which additional capital requires a new decision.
• Develop venture controllers who can obtain usable partner information, preserve independent approvals and challenge incomplete project forecasts, creating a regional finance forum that surfaces boundary risks before they become irreversible commitments.

Candidate qualifications

• Bring 22–28 years of finance experience with group CFO or substantial multi-company leadership in EPC, engineering, manufacturing, real estate or a diversified investment portfolio. Demonstrate personal responsibility for financial decisions spanning operating and investment entities. Show where the legal form of a project did not fully describe the group's economic exposure and how your analysis changed a board decision.
• Have worked on acquisitions, joint ventures or significant investment structures with meaningful funding and ownership complexity. Explain your role in assessing partner commitments, guarantees and downside recovery, including what required qualified legal advice. The evidence must distinguish financial judgement from contractual opinion and identify a condition you required before recommending additional group support or approving release within an existing funding envelope.
• Hold a recognised accounting or management-accounting qualification with applied knowledge of consolidated reporting, investment accounting and financial models. Demonstrate debt or equity raising that considered project risk and corporate consequences together. The role requires enough technical depth to challenge unsupported assumptions while using qualified specialists for authoritative interpretations rather than overstating the reach of a broad finance credential.
• Have led controllers and senior managers across different ownership arrangements, including situations where partner information was late, incomplete or inconsistent. Show how you preserved reporting discipline, made uncertainty explicit and maintained constructive investment relationships. Regional travel, confidentiality around transactions and the ability to present uncomfortable support obligations candidly to directors are necessary aspects of continuing group-level responsibility.

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 10 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-PER-2026-IND-227.