Commodity Exposure Reporting and Entity-Governance Consultant

The mandate

The defined problem is a reporting model that does not consistently connect commodity exposure records to accounting balances, liquidity consequences and entity approvals. The consultant will deliver an Exposure Reporting and Entity-Governance Model for an agreed country and regional interface. It must preserve differences among commercial positions, finance amounts and formal decision authority rather than force them into a single undifferentiated dashboard.

Exposure-model development and validation run for six months from 19 October 2026, requiring four project days weekly in Mumbai and planned India workshops with remote regional reviewers. The package joins an exposure dictionary, source-to-finance bridge, entity approval matrix and reporting protocol tested against selected trading periods. This is operating design and evidence transfer; legal-entity restructuring and trading-platform implementation remain outside the deliverable.

Milestone one on 18 December 2026 supplies an accepted exposure and entity-scope baseline, highlighting existing reporting and approval breaks. Milestone two, due 18 February 2027, delivers tested reconciliations and the draft governance model using representative trading and settlement periods. Milestone three on 18 April 2027 consists of the corrected pilot, approved exception ownership and retained-reviewer reproduction of a new exposure and related approval path.

The regional sponsor and India finance head accept the outputs. Selected exposure and finance views must reconcile using approved definitions, legitimate accounting differences must have a documented basis and entity actions must map to actual authorised routes. Retained users must trace a selected position to financial consequence and governance evidence without consultant interpretation. The model cannot certify legal compliance or the appropriateness of a trade.

The sponsor supplies exposure records, finance ledgers, funding schedules, delegations and named reviewers. The consultant does not recommend commodity positions, execute hedging, negotiate facilities or issue company-secretarial opinions. New entities, product structures and historical remediation require priced change control. Closure follows accepted artifacts and replay tests, while ongoing trading, legal and executive decisions remain with their appointed owners.

What you will own

• Define commodity exposure terms and selected entity scopes, identifying where apparently comparable position records use different valuation, timing or responsibility conventions.
• Map exposure records to controlled financial amounts and cash implications, preserving legitimate accounting differences and the approval basis of any adjustment in the reporting model.
• Construct the entity decision matrix from actual delegations, distinguishing paper preparation, executive recommendation, board approval and statutory responsibility rather than relying on job titles.
• Design reporting exceptions with evidence owners and escalation tests so unexplained exposure or governance breaks cannot disappear through repeated management adjustments.
• Pilot the model across representative trading and settlement periods, correcting definitions that fail to support a traceable finance consequence or valid approval route.
• Transfer dictionaries, reconciliation logic and governance instructions through retained-reviewer replay on a new exposure, documenting residual specialist issues and project-scope limits.

Candidate qualifications

• Show eighteen or more years in finance with head-level, controller or senior transformation responsibility in commodities or related trading operations. Present an exposure-reporting or governance model you personally developed, the material mismatch it exposed and how finance owners accepted it. A broad natural-resources background must be supported by relevant artifacts.
• Demonstrate practical accounting and commercial finance knowledge across positions, settlement, collateral and cash. Explain a case where a trading view could not map directly to the ledger, and show the documented bridge rather than an unsupported adjustment. The consultant must distinguish accounting treatment from authority to choose or approve trades.
• Bring entity-governance and global stakeholder experience grounded in actual delegations and evidence retention. A recognised accounting background is expected. Describe an approval ambiguity you resolved with legal or statutory owners, preserving their professional responsibility while making finance reporting clearer and repeatable.
• Prove fixed-fee delivery, controlled data perimeter and retained-user transfer. Evidence should include a pilot, accepted definitions and a changed-case replay test. Explain handling of new product or entity requests without broadening the design silently. The project does not provide trading strategy, legal compliance certification or authority to execute financing or company-secretarial actions.

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 14 October 2026. Mandate reference PCT-CON-2026-IND-56.