Chief Financial Officer — Minerals Funding and Liquidity Bridge

The mandate

The CFO seat holds executive finance accountability across minerals operating plans and financing requirements. Production forecasts, receivable assumptions and capital commitments have separate owners; the seat arbitrates their combined liquidity effect. The bridge must hold the CFO seat with disciplined funding and reporting judgement, not use commodity-cycle optimism as a substitute for cash evidence.

The twelve-month term begins on 19 October 2026 in Visakhapatnam, with planned India operating and banking reviews. A permanent CFO search is conducted in parallel, and the incoming leader joins the final treasury and board cycles. Extension is possible only by written board approval specifying the remaining transfer condition. Overseas financing conversations are remote unless approved transaction needs justify travel.

Handover requires an accepted funding and liquidity plan, an approved capital-commitment register and controlled reporting that reconciles operating assumptions to finance records. Three treasury reviews must show credible downside capacity rather than rely solely on base-case mineral prices. The successor must chair a funding review and receive unresolved banking, tax and capital obligations with their evidence, limits and next decision dates.

The CFO may approve finance controls, working-capital priorities and use of sanctioned facilities within policy. New borrowing, guarantees, capital-project approval, permanent restructuring and settlements above ₹50 lakh require the board or authorised executives. Statutory and company-secretarial powers follow existing legal appointments. The interim cannot commit capital or offer a guarantee merely because the funding model treats it as available.

The assignment excludes mine engineering, environmental licensing, mineral reserve certification and a general commercial sales turnaround. It includes rigorous corporate finance, treasury and board evidence in an industrial setting. The CFO should connect price, volume and capital timing to cash resilience, distinguish accounting profit from deployable funds and leave retained finance able to explain the decisions without relying on a temporary leader's private model.

What you will own

• Approve a minerals liquidity plan that reconciles production, collections, tax dues and capital commitments, with downside cases linked to observable operating and commodity assumptions.
• Resolve funding priorities within sanctioned facilities, documenting cash constraints and approvals needed where the operating plan depends on new debt, guarantees or capital release.
• Set a capital-commitment register showing contractual obligations, optional spend and approval gates so executives can distinguish funding already required from future investment discretion.
• Challenge board performance papers against controlled accounts and cash evidence, exposing where price or production narratives conceal delayed collection or unfunded operating commitments.
• Authorize treasury and tax-control review schedules preserving banking conditions, disputed obligations and the boundary between finance management and appointed specialist or statutory responsibility.
• Transfer the CFO funding and reporting cycle through a successor-led review, including reproducible stress assumptions, open approvals and ownership of remaining banking or tax matters.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate twenty-two or more years in finance with genuine CFO leadership in mining, minerals, steel or related industrial operations. Present a funding or liquidity decision you personally held, the authority and constraints involved and the realised outcome. A finance-chief title must be supported by accountable corporate-finance judgement.
• Show strong treasury, capital-planning and working-capital capability under commodity or operating-cycle uncertainty. Describe a case where a plausible profit forecast could not fund commitments, explain the evidence tested and show how you revised funding priorities without obscuring liabilities or assuming unapproved facilities.
• Bring rigorous Ind AS or Indian reporting and finalisation experience with board, audit and tax-control interfaces. A recognised professional finance qualification is expected. Provide a judgement or governance issue you defended through review, identifying the specialist, statutory or company-secretarial authority you deliberately preserved.
• Prove leadership of industrial finance managers and practical successor transfer. Explain how another CFO reproduced your liquidity stress case, understood banking conditions and took ownership of unresolved approvals. Candidates must distinguish finance from reserve, environmental and engineering certification, and support the specified twelve-month executive coverage and Visakhapatnam working base.

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 14 October 2026. Mandate reference PCT-INT-2026-IND-54.