Working-Capital Scenario Oversight Director

The mandate

The committee seeks independent advice on whether working-capital scenarios reflect true behavioral and timing uncertainty rather than mechanical days-based extrapolation. Reported measures are available, but changes in mix, ageing, dispute, payment timing and operational response can produce very different cash paths from the same headline ratio.

The standing question is which working-capital assumptions threaten cash early enough to warrant a management response, and which movements are accounting timing with no persistent economic effect. Two days weekly will cover monthly committee work, owner challenge and two dedicated stress reviews.

The Director receives no line authority, collection or payment power, policy approval or treasury execution rights. Advice may challenge scenario logic, recommend trigger levels and request evidence through the Chair. Management retains customer, supplier and operational decisions; treasury retains liquidity action.

The eight-month term closes after two stress reviews and a complete planning cycle. Renewal needs a separately defined issue. Conflicts include advisory relationships with significant counterparties or interests affected by payment and collection choices; these require disclosure and possible exclusion from specific papers.

What you will own

• Decompose receivable, payable, inventory and other working-capital movement into volume, mix, terms, ageing, dispute, timing and operational causes.
• Test the relationship between days metrics and actual cash curves under changing composition and seasonality.
• Review key scenario assumptions for evidence quality, owner, range, correlation and decision lead time.
• Design trigger ladders for ageing, concentration, payment bunching, stock build and forecast-to-cash divergence.
• Facilitate two compound stresses showing management actions, cash release timing and potential displacement of risk.
• Challenge initiatives that claim cash benefit through temporary timing movement with no sustainable operational change.
• Recommend a concise committee view that reconciles working-capital scenarios to the integrated cash outlook.
• Transfer review prompts and trigger monitoring to internal FP&A and treasury owners.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 17 years in FP&A, working-capital analytics, treasury planning or committee advice.
• Evidence of a scenario where days-based analysis concealed composition or ageing risk and your work changed action.
• Expertise in cash conversion, cohort ageing, payment behavior, inventory dynamics, timing reversals and integrated forecasting.
• A case where you disallowed a temporary timing benefit from being treated as structural cash improvement.
• Experience advising without directing collections, payments, inventory or funding decisions.
• Ability to identify how one working-capital action may displace risk to another part of the cycle.
• Complete conflict disclosure regarding material counterparty, treasury or working-capital advisory relationships.

Working terms and boundaries

• Advisory time is two days weekly for eight months, aligned to monthly committee and two scheduled stress reviews.
• No line authority, payment, collection, policy, risk acceptance or treasury execution is delegated.
• Conflicts are reviewed before data access and ahead of each counterparty-sensitive paper; the Chair controls restrictions.
• Detailed process implementation, counterparty negotiation and formal assurance are excluded.
• Completion requires two exercises, reconciled trigger governance, an operated planning cycle and transferred oversight.

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 7 October 2026. Mandate reference FPA-ADV-2026-VIE-51.