Regional Financial Controller — Banking Approval Control Transition, Interim

The mandate

Four financial-services entities depend on a single regional owner for payment exceptions and interpretation of banking approval arrangements, and that seat now needs an executive holder. Local teams continue to prepare payments and reconciliations, but the operating authority record does not fully explain who can release an instruction when the normal reviewer is unavailable. The interim Regional Controller will take executive control of that transition, maintaining legitimate payment continuity while removing informal permissions and unclear reconciliation responsibility.

The engagement begins on 26 October 2026 for nine months, requiring five onsite days weekly. A permanent regional controller search runs during the assignment, with successor overlap included in the final stage. In the opening fortnight, the interim must establish the actual bank accounts, authorised access, approval routes and material unresolved payment items. Any extension needs written Finance Chief approval and a total term within twenty-four months; the term cannot justify indefinite ownership of unrelated finance functions.

An approved payment needs both a valid financial obligation and a workable authority route. A familiar preparer does not establish independent review, a system role may not match the formal bank mandate and a completed bank transaction may still lack an adequately reviewed ledger entry. The controller will test those distinctions with banking, legal and technology owners. Where formal authority must change, the authorised entity officer approves it and the control team verifies its actual operation rather than rely on a signed document alone.

The interim directs sixteen control practitioners, sets investigation and review priorities and authorises routine finance instructions within the existing delegation. Changes to bank mandates, new borrowing, material related-party transfers and control-policy departures require designated executive or entity-board approval. Treasury retains funding and risk strategy; compliance and legal owners retain product and regulatory conclusions. The assignment excludes investment trading, customer-fund policy changes and a wholesale replacement of the payment technology estate.

The permanent successor must operate two complete payment-review and banking-reconciliation cycles, demonstrate an approved absence cover and reproduce the unresolved-exception escalation route. Handover also requires an accepted account/access inventory with evidence that material revoked or changed permissions actually work as intended. The Finance Chief and controls committee accept the successor-led review and remaining issues with owners and dates, preserving control continuity without pretending that every banking or customer dependency has disappeared at exit.

What you will own

• Establish the four-entity account and approval inventory during the opening fortnight, reconciling formal banking authority, system access and actual instruction practice before accepting an absence-cover arrangement.
• Decide immediate payment-control priorities through obligation, timing and approval uncertainty, keeping legitimate instructions moving within delegation while material unsupported exceptions follow their designated review route.
• Govern preparer, reviewer and release segregation with evidence of actual operation, obtaining authorised corrections where a documented role does not provide a dependable independent check.
• Lead banking-reconciliation exception review through source transactions and ledger records, distinguishing timing from unrecorded obligations or unsupported postings that require accountable investigation before closure.
• Test changed or revoked access with technology and banking owners, verifying that the approved permission works in practice and that retained access cannot bypass the intended authority boundary.
• Develop control leads through witnessed payment and exception decisions, establishing clear absence cover and escalation without making the interim the permanent substitute for every local review.
• Transfer the regional seat through two successor-run control cycles and an absence-cover test, securing accepted residual issues and the final account, access and decision-owner record.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate senior financial-control or controllership leadership in financial services or another multi-entity operating environment, with personal oversight of payment, banking or comparable financial approval controls. Describe a material gap between documented authority and actual practice, the evidence inspected and the controlled decision you led. The record must establish finance judgement and operational accountability rather than a general statement that access controls are important.
• Bring rigorous reconciliation and financial-obligation reasoning. Explain a completed bank or payment transaction whose accounting or review evidence remained inadequate, how you investigated it and which authorised owner accepted the resolution. You must distinguish timing differences from an unsupported posting and preserve the relevant source records, including a visible escalation where legal, compliance or specialist accounting interpretation is still necessary.
• Show practical leadership of finance practitioners across locations, with an ability to maintain independent checks under urgent operating demands. Provide a situation where a proposed shortcut did not satisfy delegation or segregation, the alternative route established and how later review demonstrated that it worked. The role needs constructive coordination with treasury and technology owners while retaining a clearly bounded financial-control responsibility.
• Establish five-day onsite capacity from 26 October 2026 and a credible responsibility-transfer method. Relevant proof can include observed review ownership, an absence-cover test or a material finance-control handover. Explain what the receiving practitioner could reproduce, which unresolved matters were knowingly retained and how you avoided leaving essential authority or reconciliation interpretation dependent on your private working notes.

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 9 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-INT-2026-IND-090.