Debt Maturity, Hedging and Working-Capital Blueprint Lead

The mandate

The defined problem is that maturity planning, currency hedging and working-capital actions are not represented in one decision-ready cash view. The consultant will build that view and an execution blueprint for authorised owners. The project does not authorise dealing in financial instruments or negotiating new facilities.

Deliverables are a debt maturity map, currency exposure methodology, working-capital action register and an integrated decision calendar. Each action must carry an evidence source, approval gate and operational dependency. The blueprint should show where an apparent cash benefit merely shifts timing or adds another financial obligation.

The five-month project begins on 19 October 2026 and finishes on 18 March 2027. Milestone one on 30 November delivers reconciled obligations and exposure definitions. Milestone two on 25 January produces tested cash scenarios and draft action gates. Milestone three on 18 March delivers validation, execution-owner rehearsal and the approved maintenance pack. Three focused days weekly are required.

Acceptance belongs to the CFO and treasury sponsor. They must reproduce maturity totals from authorised agreements, trace selected currency exposures to operating records and understand the cash effect of each working-capital action without double counting. An owner rehearsal must demonstrate which decisions need approval and what evidence triggers them; a polished model with no executable governance will fail sign-off.

The sponsor provides authorised facility documents, exposure records and nominated operating finance owners. Work is hybrid from Mumbai with agreed plant workshops. Facility negotiation, hedge execution, tax advice and implementation of collection changes are excluded. Additional instrument types or operating entities with materially different cash mechanics require an approved change note before the fee or delivery date is altered.

What you will own

• Reconcile debt obligations to authorised agreements, mapping principal, interest, covenants and optionality so the first milestone exposes timing and concentration rather than only total debt.
• Define operating currency exposure from purchase, sale and settlement records, distinguishing committed flows from forecasts that should not automatically receive the same treatment.
• Build working-capital scenarios with separate drivers for collection, inventory and payment timing, preventing one action from being credited twice through overlapping schedules.
• Specify decision gates for proposed funding and hedging responses, identifying the evidence and authorised approver required before any transaction can proceed.
• Test the integrated cash view under demand, currency and collection shocks, retaining the assumptions that create the most consequential downside exposure.
• Rehearse the blueprint with treasury and operating owners, documenting where data access, capacity or approval ambiguity prevents practical execution and assigning an owner to each blockage.
• Transfer the decision calendar and refresh method to the nominated custodian, requiring a fresh-period update and owner walkthrough before final acceptance.

Candidate qualifications

• Show hands-on treasury or corporate-finance modelling involving debt maturity and operating cash. Explain a reconciliation issue discovered in facility or exposure records and how the final decision view preserved the contractual consequence.
• Demonstrate currency-exposure judgement without confusing forecast uncertainty with a committed transaction. Candidates should provide an example of selecting an exposure basis, testing downside and retaining approval boundaries for actual dealing.
• Evidence working-capital analysis that avoided double counting. Describe an apparent cash release whose effect overlapped another action, how the overlap was identified and what the revised recommendation showed.
• Provide consulting delivery proof with clear acceptance, documented owner decisions and an internal refresh method. Explain a rehearsal that revealed execution weakness and the change made before handover rather than merely delivering the model.
• Be capable of handling sensitive banking and operating records through authorised access. Professional finance competence and precise source lineage are required; regulated dealing, lender negotiation and tax-signing authority are neither conferred by this project nor assumed from corporate-finance experience. Show how the internal custodian detected an invalid exposure input during rehearsal and kept it from driving an unauthorised funding recommendation. The sponsor needs evidence that your blueprint makes a mistaken operating assumption visible before a transaction decision is reached.

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 PCT-CON-2026-IND-06.