Multi-Territory Rights and Consolidation Integration Lead

The mandate

The defined problem is that acquired rights schedules and territorial reporting do not enter consolidation through one controlled integration route. The consultant will design and test that route for agreed media entities. The project is not a legal opinion on rights ownership or an instruction to complete all commercial integration work.

Deliverables are a rights-finance obligation matrix, a consolidation handoff pack and an integration playbook with evidence and authority gates. The matrix must preserve territorial differences that affect finance rather than flatten them into one standard label. Users need to understand what source supports a reporting treatment and who can resolve an ambiguity.

Work runs for five months from 19 October 2026 through 18 March 2027. The first milestone on 30 November establishes obligations and reporting gaps. The second on 25 January delivers the playbook and pilot handoffs. The final 18 March milestone provides validation, revised procedures and custodian transfer. Three working days weekly are required.

Acceptance belongs to the CFO and integration sponsor, supported by nominated territorial finance owners. They must process a fresh rights obligation into the reporting pack, reconcile its consolidation consequence and route an unresolved interpretation to the authorised legal or accounting owner. The pilot includes a changed obligation and a late reporting adjustment rather than only clean initial data.

The sponsor provides authorised rights schedules, acquisition records, reporting files and named legal and finance reviewers. Mumbai remains primary with agreed remote territory sessions. Legal interpretation, royalty-system implementation and recurring close operation are excluded. Additional territory models or transaction families require scope approval before the fee and delivery date are adjusted.

What you will own

• Map rights obligations to financial and reporting consequences using authorised source records, preserving territorial distinctions that materially affect the accounting or consolidation handoff.
• Reconcile sampled rights schedules to territorial reporting balances, assigning incomplete source evidence, contractual interpretation and accounting-policy questions to the reviewers who can resolve each finance consequence.
• Design the consolidation handoff pack with explicit preparer, reviewer and escalation roles, preventing finance convenience from replacing authorised interpretation of a rights obligation.
• Build the playbook around changed obligations and late adjustments, specifying how users preserve original evidence while updating the current reporting treatment.
• Pilot cross-territory handoffs with fresh cases, testing whether recipients can explain the obligation and its finance consequence without consulting the original preparer.
• Revise failed integration handoffs by retaining territory-specific obligation rules, testing whether a recipient can reproduce the financial treatment without relying on unexplained central adjustments.
• Transfer the matrix and playbook through a custodian's fresh changed-obligation test, obtaining named maintenance ownership and an authorised resolution route for interpretations outside the accepted coverage.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate hands-on acquisition integration or consolidation work in music, digital media or analogous rights businesses. Explain an obligation-to-reporting reconciliation and the territorial difference that could not be ignored.
• Show technical finance competence in IFRS or Ind AS interfaces relevant to actual work. Candidates should describe a non-routine consolidation treatment and the authority consulted before approving its basis.
• Evidence practical integration playbook design tested through real user handoffs. Provide a failure, the missing evidence or ambiguous role discovered and the revision made before sign-off.
• Show disciplined boundaries between finance analysis, legal rights interpretation and ongoing integration management. Explain how an unresolved source question was retained without pretending the consultant had certified ownership or enforceability.
• Provide consulting acceptance and transfer proof with fresh cases and controlled updates. Evidence reproducible rights-to-reporting lineage and confidential handling of commercially sensitive schedules, with authorised review of changed obligations before reporting updates. Candidates should show how a changed obligation was versioned, how the prior assumption remained inspectable and how the internal custodian knew when a new case exceeded the agreed playbook's coverage. Describe how the playbook handles a rights schedule that cannot yet be reconciled to a territorial reporting balance. Show the limitation retained, the legal or accounting owner consulted and the evidence required before the integration handoff can be treated as complete.

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 13 October 2026. Mandate reference PCT-CON-2026-IND-13.