Post-Merger Finance Integration Advisory Director

The mandate

The adviser will help senior finance leaders make post-merger integration choices while the confidential transaction remains undisclosed in this publication. The recurring question is how quickly to converge finance without destroying local control knowledge, interrupting close or locking temporary compromises into the permanent model. The appointment brings independent challenge, pattern recognition and decision discipline.

Two days each week will support a fortnightly integration clinic, review of selected decision evidence and one quarterly on-site executive forum. The adviser will focus on operating-model convergence, process ownership, reporting, controls, data, talent and value assurance. Delivery stays with the integration and finance teams; the adviser will not become a shadow integration director.

The work will distinguish genuine Day-One or early-control needs from later optimisation. It will test whether proposed standardisation solves an evidenced problem, whether retained local practice reflects a real obligation, and whether synergy claims consider transition effort, duplicated work and adoption. Recommendations must include consequence, reversibility and the evidence needed at the next decision gate.

There is no line authority and no budget, accounting-policy, transaction or implementation authority. The adviser will not choose individuals, negotiate with counterparties or approve synergy reporting. Management owns every decision and its execution. Relationships with integration, service or technology providers must be disclosed before access to commercially sensitive materials.

At month twelve, the adviser will deliver an independent integration-health view covering decisions taken, benefits supported, control compromises, talent dependencies and unresolved convergence choices. The executive team should be able to continue through a mature decision cadence without ongoing reliance on the appointment.

What you will own

• Establish an integration decision framework separating continuity, control, convergence, value and optimisation choices by timing and reversibility.
• Challenge proposed standardisation against legal obligation, process evidence, local control knowledge and transition capacity.
• Review finance synergy logic for duplicate claims, transition cost, stranded effort and dependency on unapproved assumptions.
• Advise on sequencing across close, reporting, process ownership, data, controls and finance talent.
• Introduce decision gates that require owner, consequence, evidence, reversibility and next review date.
• Identify temporary practices at risk of becoming permanent and recommend explicit exit owners and tests.
• Coach finance leaders through contested choices without taking integration or line accountability.
• Issue an independent month-twelve health assessment; management retains all approvals and execution.

Candidate qualifications

• Show advisory or executive experience across post-merger finance integration beyond Day-One readiness.
• Provide an example where rapid standardisation would have removed valuable local control knowledge and how the sequence changed.
• Demonstrate rigorous synergy challenge, including transition cost, stranded work and duplicate benefit prevention.
• Evidence influence over finance integration decisions without line, policy or transaction authority.
• Describe a temporary finance compromise you helped retire before it became embedded.
• Bring broad understanding of operating model, close, controls, data and finance talent integration.
• Disclose relationships with integration, service or technology providers that could benefit from the advice.

Working terms and boundaries

• The retainer covers two days a week, a fortnightly clinic, quarterly on-site forum and agreed decision-paper review.
• Extra event support, diligence or implementation work requires separate written scope and pricing.
• The adviser cannot direct integration teams, choose individuals, approve accounting policy, negotiate the transaction or certify synergies.
• Management owns decisions, source evidence, implementation and formal reporting.
• Provider and investment conflicts are continuing disclosure obligations throughout the twelve-month term.

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 9 October 2026. Mandate reference FNA-ADV-2026-GVA-32.