Interim Senior Director Procure-to-Pay — GCC Responsibility Transfer

The mandate

A financial-services group has begun moving payable activity into its India GCC and needs senior transition leadership after the first responsibility wave. Training is recorded as complete while retained-market teams still resolve exceptions outside the agreed service boundary. Starting on 26 October 2026, the interim senior director will hold executive procure-to-pay responsibility for nine months. Permanent recruitment continues in parallel. The immediate task is to establish who genuinely owns each invoice decision and move subsequent waves only when that ownership can be demonstrated.

The handover condition is a GCC that can operate its agreed perimeter without informal retained-market rescue. Two full payment-and-close cycles must demonstrate correct routing, supported exception decisions and explicit local release authority. Every continuing market dependency needs an owner, service arrangement and expiry or review date. The successor must receive a wave-by-wave evidence book showing what was transferred, what remains local and why. The assignment ends after that induction within the fixed nine-month window; an untested responsibility map does not qualify as transfer.

You will lead 95 centre colleagues and coordinate seven retained-market owners. Within the approved programme, you may sequence transfer waves, redeploy temporary operational resources and suspend activity lacking required access or review capability. Changes to location strategy, permanent establishment or accepted control risk require steering-committee approval. Local entity signatories retain payment release, and controllers retain financial treatments. You cannot substitute a centre manager's assurance for a legally required local approval or remove retained-market coverage before its responsibilities have been explicitly accepted by the receiving team.

Enterprise-system replacement, supplier renegotiation and redesign of the group's treasury structure are excluded. Technology supplies approved access and environment support; markets provide local rules and representative exceptions. Bengaluru requires onsite leadership during transfer rehearsals, with planned visits where market dependencies need direct validation. A limited temporary support budget is available, but each appointment must have a transfer purpose and exit date. Completion means the permanent senior director can govern a stable service perimeter, not that every payable process has been transformed or all market exceptions have disappeared.

What you will own

• Establish the responsibility baseline for each migration wave using actual invoice paths, local approvals and exception decisions, recording where nominal transfer differs from work still performed by retained-market staff.
• Decide wave readiness against demonstrated access, decision capability and local release arrangements, delaying unsupported transfers even when training attendance or schedule milestones appear complete on the programme dashboard.
• Assign operational escalation ownership across centre and market teams, specifying the evidence required for a hand-back and preventing the same unresolved invoice from circulating without an accountable decision maker.
• Authorise temporary coverage for defined capability gaps within budget, attaching expiry dates and manager-transfer conditions so emergency retained-market support does not become an invisible permanent service model.
• Lead two complete operating rehearsals that include normal volume and difficult exceptions, testing whether centre managers can resolve their delegated responsibilities without senior intervention or unrecorded market assistance.
• Present retained-dependency decisions to the steering committee with cost, control and capacity implications, reserving material risk acceptance and permanent workforce changes for the authorised executive body.
• Induct the permanent successor through a live wave review and payment cycle, transferring unresolved issues, local obligations and review calendars with evidence that the next decisions can be made independently.

Candidate qualifications

• Provide a responsibility-transfer example from finance operations where completion records overstated the receiving team's readiness. Explain the work you observed, the decision rights that remained elsewhere and the evidence that justified transfer or delay. Global service scaling, ERP transition or a comparable operating-boundary change is credible evidence when you held actual managerial accountability rather than only reporting progress.
• Bring 22–28 years in payable operations, shared services or finance transformation, with head-level responsibility in financial services or technology. You must distinguish process execution from local financial approval and understand how a GCC can own a service without acquiring the entity's statutory or banking powers. Show managers you developed who could make consequential exception decisions within that boundary.
• Demonstrate cutover and control methods covering access, representative transactions, escalation and residual market dependencies. Describe how you tested a difficult case after training ended and how you prevented helpful informal support from concealing a capability gap. Performance measures should establish independent service reliability rather than simply count tasks moved, colleagues hired or workshops delivered before a target date.
• Commit to an onsite start on 26 October 2026 and five-day weekly cover across the nine-month term. Explain a leadership handover where the incoming manager inherited usable evidence and could operate the next cycle without you. Calm judgement, transparent disagreement with programme sponsors and a refusal to expand authority through undocumented emergency instructions are essential to this interim seat.

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 8 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-INT-2026-IND-129.