Regional Cash and Working Capital Command Director

The mandate

An interim director is required to close a regional cash and working-capital leadership gap. Country cash forecasts, receivables, inventory and payables actions do not currently form one reliable liquidity view. The appointee must create immediate command while keeping treasury transaction and commercial authority with their formal owners.

Within five working days, the director will establish daily cash exposure, critical funding dependencies and a decision route for material variance. Within 20 days, working-capital actions must have baseline, mechanism, owner and cash bridge. Temporary authority covers analytical standards, recovery sequence and regional meeting cadence.

The first three months will protect liquidity, challenge unsupported forecasts and prevent timing movements from being called sustainable release. The role cannot execute treasury transactions, change bank mandates, alter customer or supplier terms, approve inventory policy or make accounting conclusions outside delegation.

Every material cash variance will be traced to its originating operational and settlement event, not explained only by account movement. The director will distinguish delayed receipts, disputed billing, inventory decisions, payment timing, forecast error and restricted availability. That cause view will determine whether the response belongs to treasury, country finance, commercial, supply or procurement leadership and when the result can be tested.

Months four and five move emergency routines into normal owners. Month six is reserved for transfer. Handover is accepted when the successor and deputy independently produce the daily cash view, chair a weekly working-capital council, resolve one variance escalation and own the next forecast cycle.

The final pack will show residual liquidity, reversals, owner decisions and counterparty consequences. Extension cannot create a new treasury programme.

The permanent operating rhythm will include forecast accuracy by cause, reversals of earlier cash actions and explicit capacity for the next stress point. Country leaders must explain assumptions and corrective ownership directly, rather than route every challenge through the interim office. The successor will inherit working relationships as well as analytical files.

Before handover, management will simulate a material country forecast failure and temporary loss of a normal funding route. The successor must establish exposure, choose escalation and preserve transaction-authority boundaries. Observed performance becomes the final readiness record.

What you will own

• Establish one regional daily cash and funding exposure view.
• Reconcile operating actions to balance and cash bridges.
• Set temporary analytical standards and recovery sequence under delegation.
• Reject timing-only and duplicate working-capital claims.
• Escalate country forecast variance with consequence and owner.
• Move emergency routines into stable treasury and process ownership.
• Prepare successor and deputy through reverse-shadow operation.
• Complete the live cash-cycle acceptance test.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate interim regional liquidity and working-capital command.
• Show a cash forecast whose confidence was disproved by operating evidence.
• Provide a timing-only benefit you removed from reporting.
• Evidence authority discipline around banking and commercial decisions.
• Bring integrated receivables, inventory, payables and cash judgement.
• Describe an independently demonstrated successor handover.

Working terms and boundaries

• Six months at five days a week requires on-site command during critical cycles.
• Temporary authority covers evidence, sequence and finance cadence.
• Transactions, bank mandates, commercial terms, inventory policy and reserved accounting decisions are excluded.
• Handover requires successor and deputy operation through the defined cash cycle.
• Any extension is capped at four weeks and only completes transfer.

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 RHF-INT-2026-JNB-08.