Regional Finance Integration Director

The mandate

An interim director is needed to lead regional finance integration. The portfolio spans performance, close, reporting, controls, services, data and finance talent. The appointee must deliver convergence without absorbing reserved decisions.

Within 15 working days, the director will establish outcomes, continuity, dependencies and decision owners. Temporary authority covers finance work sequence, readiness standards and integration escalation under approved governance. The director may hold an unproven wave.

Months two through seven execute selected convergence and rehearsals. Months eight through ten prove stable operating and close outcomes. Reserved accounting, tax, legal, people, bank and external-communication authority is excluded.

Integration reporting will distinguish installed change from accepted operation. A common report is not converged if country finance still reconciles it manually; a transferred service is not stable if local controllers perform hidden corrections; and a harmonised control is not effective until its owner can evidence exceptions and follow-through. Those tests will govern the temporary release of each wave.

The final two months transfer the portfolio. Acceptance requires the successor and deputy to lead a representative close and performance review, reproduce residual risk, resolve one contested dependency and own the next wave without interim intervention.

The final record will preserve temporary controls, incomplete benefits and deferred decisions. Extension cannot add integration scope.

Each residual item will identify the permanent forum, decision owner, next evidence date and consequence of delay. The interim director will obtain explicit acceptance from process, country or controllership leaders rather than transferring a generic programme backlog. This prevents work from becoming orphaned when integration governance closes.

The successor acceptance record will include one case where a promised integration benefit remains uncertain. The new leader must determine the next evidence, owner and stop condition rather than inherit the forecast as fact. This tests both analytical independence and authority.

The accountable sponsor will witness and sign the exercise, including any coaching still needed. Extension is not available merely because benefit evidence takes longer to mature.

The final transfer record will distinguish successor capability from outcomes that need future observation, preserving accountability without extending temporary leadership.

Management will acknowledge that distinction explicitly.

What you will own

• Create one integration outcome and dependency ledger.
• Protect regional close, cash, reporting and control continuity.
• Sequence work and set temporary readiness evidence under delegation.
• Test convergence through rehearsals and live cycles.
• Route reserved decisions to authorised owners.
• Track benefits after transition cost and retained work.
• Prepare successor and deputy through reverse-shadow leadership.
• Complete the live acceptance condition.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate interim regional finance integration.
• Show a wave held for insufficient operating proof.
• Provide a convergence decision re-sequenced to protect control.
• Evidence boundaries around specialist and people decisions.
• Bring broad finance operating and performance judgement.
• Describe a successor accepting unresolved work through live leadership.

Working terms and boundaries

• Twelve months at five days a week includes travel during critical cycles.
• Temporary authority covers work sequence, evidence and escalation.
• Reserved conclusions, bank authority, people decisions and external communication are excluded.
• Handover acceptance requires independent successor and deputy operation.
• Any extension is capped at six weeks and solely 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 6 October 2026. Mandate reference RHF-INT-2026-MIL-12.