GCC Finance Site Governance Director

The mandate

The adviser will help executive sponsors govern the establishment and growth of a finance capability in Gurugram without disclosing any client identity, scale, sector or transition perimeter. The standing question is whether site choices create durable finance capability and controlled ownership, rather than simply achieving hiring or migration volume.

Three days each week will support a fortnightly governance clinic, independent review of readiness evidence and one monthly on-site council. Advice will address service perimeter, retained accountability, leadership build, capability, control, economics and expansion gates. The site and transition executives remain responsible for delivery.

The adviser will challenge whether each work wave is stable enough to accept, whether local leadership can own its consequences and whether cost claims include retained work, learning and governance. Site growth should be conditional on tested cycles, succession and the ability to handle exceptions, not on seat availability or a predetermined calendar.

The appointment has no line authority and no hiring, migration, budget, provider-selection or policy authority. The adviser cannot approve work acceptance or direct site leaders. Management owns those decisions. Any commercial or investment interest in property, recruitment, services or implementation connected to finance centres must be declared.

By month ten, sponsors should have an effective governance method, evidence-led expansion gates and a clear view of capability and retained risk. The final opinion will state where scale is justified, where consolidation should pause and which accountabilities must remain outside the site regardless of execution location. It will also identify decisions whose supporting evidence should be refreshed before any later expansion wave is authorised.

What you will own

• Define sponsor governance across site operations, global process, controllership, transition, talent and retained finance ownership.
• Establish readiness and expansion gates covering process stability, data, control, training, leadership, service and contingency.
• Challenge economic cases for hidden retained work, learning curves, governance and failure demand.
• Review whether local process and specialist leadership is developing ahead of additional work acceptance.
• Advise on non-transferable judgement, control and enterprise ownership even where execution moves.
• Test reported stability through representative cycles, issue recurrence and retained-owner evidence.
• Recommend pause, proceed or conditional expansion; management retains all delivery and approval authority.
• Deliver an independent month-ten governance and capability opinion with unresolved exposure explicit.

Candidate qualifications

• Show advisory or executive experience establishing finance capability in a global capability centre.
• Provide an example where you advised pausing growth despite hiring or migration targets.
• Demonstrate how hidden retained work or learning economics changed an expansion case.
• Evidence judgement on which finance accountabilities should not transfer with execution.
• Show influence across site, process, controllership and talent leaders without line authority.
• Describe governance that linked expansion to live-cycle capability rather than calendar completion.
• Disclose interests involving property, recruitment, service or implementation providers.

Working terms and boundaries

• The retainer covers three days a week, a fortnightly clinic, monthly on-site council and agreed evidence review.
• Additional hiring, provider evaluation, migration delivery or travel requires separate written scope.
• The adviser has no line, hiring, budget, service-acceptance or policy authority.
• Management owns all site, transition, people, investment and control decisions.
• Relevant commercial and investment interests must be declared throughout the ten-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 5 October 2026. Mandate reference FNA-ADV-2026-GGN-44.