Regional Finance Separation Readiness Director

The mandate

This seven-month project will establish regional finance separation readiness for a confidential event whose parties, scale, sector and timing are not disclosed. The director must connect perimeter decisions to close, cash, payments, billing, controls, services and data without inferring reserved conclusions.

Six dated artifacts govern delivery: perimeter ledger by 30 October 2026; dependency and decision pack by 18 December; Day-One design by 29 January 2027; rehearsal evidence by 12 March; readiness book by 30 April; and first-cycle handover by 28 May. The Transaction Finance Lead accepts each against approved perimeter, traceability and operating proof.

The director will require owner, contingency and exit for every cross-perimeter dependency. Rehearsals must test actual handoffs and failure, not checklist recitation. Temporary services and manual controls need evidence and expiry.

Readiness evidence will be constructed by process journey rather than workstream. A payment path, for example, must connect approved obligation, master information, authority, bank access, settlement, posting and reconciliation under both normal and fallback conditions. Comparable end-to-end proof will be required for billing, collection, close and reporting before milestone acceptance can be recommended.

Management supplies authorised perimeter and specialist decisions, records and participants. The director cannot negotiate the transaction, decide accounting, tax or legal matters, grant access, change banking authority or communicate externally.

Final acceptance follows a representative operating cycle and transfer to permanent owners. Wider integration, optimisation and extended temporary-service operation are excluded.

The final evidence book will connect every open dependency to service duration, financial consequence, accountable recipient and exit action. It will distinguish deliberately deferred improvement from Day-One deficiency. Permanent leaders must acknowledge ongoing manual work and capacity before the consulting team can recommend closure.

Acceptance will include a walkthrough led by permanent owners using a failed rehearsal case. They must reproduce the decision history, show remediation and explain the fallback if the issue recurs. A document archive without owner comprehension will not pass the final milestone.

The acceptor will record remaining temporary capacity and confirm who funds and governs it. This prevents a successful separation milestone from concealing unsupported post-event work.

Residual items will retain expiry and escalation dates.

Named recipients will acknowledge them formally.

What you will own

• Maintain an approved perimeter ledger and finance dependency map.
• Define Day-One minimums across close, cash, transaction flows and controls.
• Coordinate reserved decisions without assuming their authority.
• Run failure-based rehearsals and require retests.
• Control temporary services and manual contingencies through exit conditions.
• Withhold readiness recommendation where operating proof is deficient.
• Support one representative cycle after separation.
• Transfer residual dependencies to permanent owners.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate regional finance separation through Day One and first cycle.
• Show a perimeter change handled without losing traceability.
• Provide a rehearsal failure that changed readiness.
• Evidence respect for accounting, tax, legal and banking authority.
• Bring breadth across finance continuity and controls.
• Show fixed-scope control under confidential deadlines.

Working terms and boundaries

• Six milestones over seven months require five days a week.
• The Transaction Finance Lead accepts artifacts against perimeter, evidence and readiness.
• Management supplies authorised decisions and participants.
• Transaction, specialist conclusions, access, banking and external communication are excluded.
• Perimeter changes require written schedule, artifact and fee control.

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 12 October 2026. Mandate reference RHF-CON-2026-MAD-10.