Mining Finance-Control, Tax and Treasury Evidence Consultant

The mandate

The defined problem is that mining finance-control assertions, tax-obligation schedules and treasury exposures do not form a consistent evidence basis for board decisions. The consultant will deliver a Finance-Control and Treasury Board Evidence Pack that makes the path from source records to decision explicit. It is not a general audit, legal opinion or corporate restructuring project.

The six-month term begins on 19 October 2026 at three days weekly in Visakhapatnam, supported by planned India finance workshops and remote analysis. The pack includes a control-evidence catalogue, tax and banking obligation bridge, treasury-exposure register and decision-paper protocol. Selected entities and review periods are fixed at inception, with historical remediation separately identified.

Milestone one on 18 December 2026 provides a signed evidence inventory, reconciled obligation baseline and a classification of unsupported control assertions. Milestone two, due 18 February 2027, delivers tested schedules and draft board papers challenged by retained finance owners. Milestone three on 18 April 2027 comprises the accepted pack, a live finance review and retained-user reproduction of selected tax, treasury and control issue papers.

Acceptance is jointly given by the CFO and evidence sponsor. Material amounts must reconcile to controlled records, known obligations must remain visible and each assertion must specify whether support is documentary, tested or still limited. Retained users must trace a board issue to source evidence and identify its authorised decision route. The pack does not imply statutory assurance or resolution of every disputed assessment.

The sponsor supplies approved accounts, tax schedules, banking terms and named reviewers with authority to resolve missing evidence. The consultant does not execute borrowing, represent assessments, certify mineral reserves or sign statutory accounts. Adding entities, periods or independent audit work requires a change order. Closure follows accepted artifacts and replay tests, while residual specialist or board matters retain their proper internal ownership.

What you will own

• Catalogue selected control assertions and classify their support as documentary, tested or limited, preventing management statements from being treated as demonstrated assurance without evidence.
• Reconcile tax and banking obligations to finance records, preserving disputed and conditional amounts rather than omitting them from the board's cash or risk view.
• Construct a treasury-exposure register showing facility conditions, maturity dependencies and approved limits, with specialist or board decisions identified where finance records alone are insufficient.
• Develop issue papers that connect source evidence, financial consequence and authorised approval route, keeping statutory, legal and engineering conclusions distinct from management finance analysis.
• Test the draft pack in a retained-finance review, correcting unsupported links and documenting accepted limitations before the artifacts are presented as ready for board use.
• Transfer schedules and issue-paper guidance through retained-user reproduction, requiring owners to trace a new obligation or control exception without relying on consultant interpretation.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate twenty-two or more years in industrial finance with CFO, controller or senior governance delivery in mining, minerals, steel or related sectors. Provide an evidence or control package you personally developed, the material obligation or assertion it exposed and the decision supported. The work requires rigorous artifacts, not only senior finance sponsorship.
• Show practical treasury, tax-control and financial finalisation knowledge under Indian reporting frameworks. A recognised professional finance qualification is expected. Explain a case where a disputed tax or conditional banking item changed the financial evidence presented to executives, identifying the specialist advice and approvals you preserved.
• Bring assurance-language discipline and the ability to distinguish management evidence from an independent statutory opinion. Provide a control assertion you refused to describe as proven, the test or record missing and the eventual disposition. Candidates must not imply reserve, environmental or engineering certification through a finance review.
• Prove fixed-fee delivery with defined data perimeter, retained-reviewer participation and transfer. Describe how you handled incomplete historical records or requests for assessment representation without weakening acceptance criteria or expanding scope silently. The consultant must leave ongoing CFO, board, statutory and specialist responsibilities with their authorised owners.

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-54.