International Contract Finance Risk Committee Adviser

The mandate

An engineering group's risk committee reviews international contracts individually but lacks a clear view of the financial dependencies shared across them. Different customers can rely on the same payment channel, country conditions or guarantee bank, making nominal diversification less useful than it appears. The adviser will challenge management's portfolio exposure analysis and help members understand which combinations of events could place several contracts under pressure simultaneously.

The retainer starts on 26 October 2026 for nine months, reserving four days per month and including one scheduled quarterly risk committee session. Each month includes a portfolio evidence call and an annotated concentration challenge. Off-cycle papers receive acknowledgement within one business day, with written observations due within three business days after management supplies the relevant exposure records and specialist constraints.

The standing question is the financial consequence of correlation, not a prediction that a particular market will fail. A customer payment delay may be manageable alone but serious when it extends guarantees and competes with several projects for the same bank capacity. The adviser will ask how those links are evidenced, which management choices remain available and when a specialist conclusion is needed to distinguish a credible scenario from an unsupported risk narrative.

The role carries no line authority over finance or project teams and no executive responsibility for bids, liquidity or delivery. Management owns exposure records and actions; the committee decides its response to the advice. No directorship or fiduciary role accompanies the retainer. The adviser cannot set treasury limits, provide country legal opinions or turn a portfolio challenge into an instruction to withdraw from a contract.

Renewal is considered in month eight, requiring a written chair assessment and governing-board approval for a separately documented term within twelve months. Concurrent appointments are capped at two additional retainers with protected capacity. Advice to a participating customer, guarantee provider or competing contractor requires disclosure before papers are shared. The chair may impose information barriers, recusal or termination where the relationship compromises neutral challenge of the standing exposure question.

What you will own

• Challenge the portfolio's stated diversification through supplied customer, geography and financing evidence, identifying shared dependencies that make several apparently separate contracts sensitive to the same financial disruption.
• Examine correlated cash-delay scenarios for their effect on guarantees and funding capacity, asking management to reconcile combined needs rather than sum isolated sensitivities that assume resources remain independently available.
• Shape an exposure dependency map for committee consideration, distinguishing observed contractual connections, specialist restrictions and judgemental assumptions so members can assess the credibility of the proposed scenario.
• Probe management's financial response options through their lead times and approval conditions, recommending questions about actions that remain feasible once several projects compete for scarce bank or cash capacity.
• Recommend specialist follow-up where country, legal or banking conclusions are necessary, preserving the distinction between an advisory financial concern and a verified restriction management can reasonably use in its decision.
• Advise on committee records of concentration acceptance and residual uncertainty, ensuring a chosen portfolio stance is not later described as eliminating the dependencies members explicitly considered.
• Review later portfolio papers against earlier challenge points, highlighting new concentrations and unsupported changes while leaving bid approval, treasury transactions and project intervention with the authorised executives.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate senior international EPC, infrastructure or project-finance experience involving more than one operating market. Describe a shared dependency that made nominally diversified contracts financially correlated, the source evidence used and the resource or portfolio decision influenced. The committee needs personally evidenced judgement about combined exposure, not only familiarity with country-risk summaries prepared by another function.
• Bring depth in contract cash, guarantees and funding interactions, with practical ability to test adverse combinations rather than isolated percentage sensitivities. Explain a scenario where one project's delay changed the resources available to another, identifying the banking or commercial conditions that supported the analysis. You should distinguish a defensible financial link from a plausible but unverified assertion about market behaviour.
• Show independent senior-stakeholder advice with clear boundaries around treasury, legal and operating authority. Relevant examples should include constructive challenge of a preferred portfolio narrative and accurate recording of unresolved questions. Describe when you sought a specialist opinion, how its limitations entered the committee discussion and why broad finance experience did not itself establish the underlying country or contractual conclusion.
• Establish four-day monthly capacity, quarterly attendance and neutral incentives. Disclose customer, bank and contractor relationships affecting the papers reviewed, together with concurrent work and relevant financial interests. Evidence should show disciplined written response and practical confidentiality decisions, enabling useful financial challenge without assuming executive responsibility for the committee's selected risk stance or management's subsequent contract actions.

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 15 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-ADV-2026-IND-072.