Acquisition Accounting Execution Director

The mandate

An interim director is required to lead acquisition accounting execution for a confidential transaction while permanent ownership is established. No party, size, sector, transaction structure or timing clue is disclosed. The appointee must coordinate authorised conclusions, specialist inputs, calculations, entries, disclosures and close integration without assuming the reserved judgement of controllers, tax, legal or valuation specialists.

In the first 15 working days, the director will establish a decision-and-deliverable ledger covering population completeness, source evidence, specialist dependencies, calculation owners, review, posting and downstream reconciliation. Each unresolved conclusion needs an authorised owner, required evidence, deadline and financial consequence. The director can sequence execution resources and withhold completion recommendations within the agreed governance.

The first four months will move through controlled iterations as source populations and approved judgements develop. Version discipline is essential: no calculation or entry may lose its link to the assumptions, approval and source from which it arose. The director will challenge inconsistency and incompleteness but will not make technical accounting, tax, legal or valuation conclusions.

Months five through seven cover posting, reconciliation, disclosure support and repeated close treatment. Accounting that operates only inside a transaction workbook is not complete. Permanent controllers must accept balances, recurring entries, evidence and residual judgement into normal governance. The role cannot post entries personally, sign financial representations or communicate outside authorised channels.

Months eight and nine focus on successor and deputy transfer. The final handover preserves decision history, calculation versions, unresolved matters, recurring close implications and a 90-day plan. An extension is available only to finish that permanent transition, not to absorb wider integration work.

What you will own

• Create an acquisition accounting deliverable ledger linking populations, authorised conclusions, specialist inputs, calculations, entries and reconciliations.
• Establish version and change control so every iteration retains its source, assumptions, decision owner and review history.
• Sequence execution work around critical decision dependencies and quantify the close or reporting consequence of delay.
• Challenge incomplete or inconsistent evidence while routing technical conclusions to the authorised accounting, tax, legal or valuation owner.
• Require approved basis and segregated posting authority before entries move into the ledger.
• Reconcile posted outcomes to accepted calculations and transfer recurring treatment into normal close ownership.
• Support disclosure evidence without drafting or approving external representation beyond delegated responsibility.
• Hand over the complete decision history, residual matters, deputies and next-cycle requirements to permanent leaders.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate interim leadership of acquisition accounting execution through entries, reconciliation and subsequent close.
• Show how you coordinated changing specialist inputs without losing version or decision traceability.
• Provide an example of challenging an accounting calculation without taking the reserved technical conclusion.
• Bring command of population completeness, calculations, review, posting, reconciliation and disclosure-support evidence.
• Evidence discretion and controlled access in a confidential transaction environment.
• Describe how transaction accounting moved from project workbooks into permanent controllership routines.
• Show a successor handover that preserved unresolved judgements and recurring close consequences.

Working terms and boundaries

• The interim term is nine months at five days a week, aligned to transaction execution and recurring close requirements.
• Authority covers resource sequence, evidence standards and execution completion recommendation within agreed governance.
• Technical accounting, tax, legal and valuation conclusions, entry posting and external representations are excluded.
• Permanent transition begins by month seven and includes a trained deputy and complete decision history.
• Any extension is capped at six weeks and cannot expand into broader integration delivery.

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 FNA-INT-2026-FRA-47.