Portfolio Exit and Reinvestment Planning Director

The mandate

The interim Director will impose financial discipline on decisions to discontinue, run down or reshape underperforming commitments and redeploy released capacity. Existing plans can identify weak contribution, but often understate exit cash, stranded cost, service obligations, dependency unwinding and the time before resources become usable elsewhere. The appointee should start within four weeks.

The assignment will construct comparable exit pathways, maintain an action-linked financial bridge and establish reinvestment gates. It must prevent two errors: counting value before resources are genuinely released, and preserving uneconomic activity because the closure case lacks sufficiently complete evidence.

Temporary powers cover exit-model standards, baseline locks, scenario quality, financial readiness and escalation. The Director cannot decide closure, communicate externally, execute workforce action, negotiate contracts or approve reinvestment. Those duties remain with authorised executives and specialists.

The nine-month endpoint is a controlled portfolio process led by a permanent owner, not completion of any particular operating exit. Handover requires two owner-led portfolio reviews, one reinvestment gate and a reconciled view of planned versus realised release with outstanding dependencies clearly assigned.

What you will own

• Create exit scenarios showing run-down, stop, transfer and reshape choices with cash, P&L, balance-sheet, capacity and timing effects.
• Identify contractual, people, service, technology and shared-cost dependencies without revealing protected operational detail in public materials.
• Lock decision baselines so later scope changes and delayed execution do not rewrite the economics originally approved.
• Build release bridges distinguishing accounting charge, cash outflow, avoided future spend, stranded cost and redeployable capacity.
• Establish reinvestment gates requiring evidence that resources are released, receiving capacity is ready and benefits remain incremental.
• Maintain a decision-and-dependency register with owner, due date, financial sensitivity and escalation trigger.
• Provide monthly portfolio views that compare continuing exposure, exit cost, recovered flexibility and reinvestment performance.
• Transfer challenge and gate ownership to a permanent leader through observed decisions and reconciliation tests.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 16 years in portfolio FP&A, restructuring finance, strategic cost or resource redeployment, including interim leadership.
• Evidence of modelling an exit where stranded cost and timing materially changed the preferred route.
• Expertise in scenario comparison, cash and accounting separation, controllability, transition cost, dependency mapping and benefits gates.
• A case where you prevented reuse of resource benefits before the underlying cost or capacity had actually been released.
• Experience working beside legal, people and operating specialists without crossing into their execution authority.
• Demonstrated maintenance of decision baselines through changing scope and sensitive leadership pressure.
• Availability for on-site Geneva work and a structured transfer beginning no later than month six.

Working terms and boundaries

• The interim appointment is nine months at five days a week; a three-month extension is possible only against a named handover plan.
• Financial scenarios, controls and gate recommendations are included; exit approval, communications and execution actions are excluded.
• Sensitive dependencies are recorded for authorised users and are not to be reproduced in public or candidate-facing material.
• The permanent owner must chair two portfolio reviews and one reinvestment gate before the interim leader exits.
• Acceptance requires controlled baselines, reconciled release evidence, assigned dependencies and an operating reinvestment discipline.

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 FPA-INT-2026-GVA-30.