Global Record-to-Report Operations Director

The mandate

The Global Record-to-Report Operations Director will own the permanent operating system that converts transaction and subledger outputs into controlled, timely ledgers and close evidence. The role leads execution across journals, reconciliations, intercompany operations, close orchestration and service performance while controllers retain accounting policy, judgement and formal balance accountability.

In the first 100 days, the director will validate the work perimeter, critical close path, leadership capability and hidden local work. By month six, common operating standards, exception routes and readiness gates should be active across priority processes. By month twelve, the organisation must demonstrate predictable closes, lower recurrent rework and stronger succession across peak-cycle leadership roles.

The director has authority over the record-to-report operations team, budget, work allocation, operating methods and service performance. The role may pause an inadequately supported journal or reconciliation completion claim within documented rules and can require recovery action for missed readiness. It cannot decide accounting policy or sign balances owned by controllers.

Operational excellence will be measured through correct-first-time outcomes, aged exposure, critical-path reliability, reviewer effort and control evidence, not task completion alone. The director will address upstream failure with process and service owners rather than staffing around it indefinitely. Improvement must remove work or risk, not merely relocate it.

Over time, this leader will develop global process capability, strong deputies and an operating culture that escalates uncertainty early. Success means that demanding closes are managed by a resilient institution, not heroic individual intervention, and that policy owners receive transparent evidence without having to operate the service directly.

What you will own

• Confirm the record-to-report operating perimeter, controller boundaries, retained work and service dependencies across markets.
• Establish critical-path governance, readiness gates and recovery routes for journals, reconciliations, intercompany and close inputs.
• Lead the global operating team, budget, work allocation, performance consequences and talent development.
• Require evidence before operational completion and pause unsupported processing within documented control authority.
• Reduce aged reconciling items, recurrent late entries, reopened work and hidden reviewer rework.
• Drive upstream root-cause accountability so service capacity is not consumed by repeated preventable failure.
• Build deputies and peak-cycle leadership coverage with tested succession, not nominal backup.
• Produce a first-year operating health account linking service improvement to close, control, cost and talent outcomes.

Candidate qualifications

• Show permanent leadership of global record-to-report operations across multiple close calendars and control environments.
• Provide an example of revealing hidden reviewer or local work that made reported service performance misleading.
• Demonstrate practical authority over journals, reconciliations, intercompany operations and close sequencing while respecting controller decisions.
• Evidence improvement that removed root cause rather than shifting work to another geography or role.
• Describe a close that became less dependent on individual heroics through operating and succession design.
• Bring talent leadership across specialists, team leaders and global process interfaces.
• Show disciplined measures connecting operational performance to accounting and control consequence.

Working terms and boundaries

• This is a full-time permanent role with authority over record-to-report operations, budget, people and operating standards.
• Accounting policy, judgement and formal balance sign-off remain with designated controllers.
• The director may hold unsupported operational completion but cannot substitute for formal technical decisions.
• First-year assessment covers close predictability, exposure reduction, control evidence, cost, succession and retained-work transparency.
• Long-term incentives remain subject to plan, performance and vesting rules.

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 11 October 2026. Mandate reference FNA-PER-2026-MNL-34.