Vice President Finance — Overseas EPC Operating Transition, Interim

The mandate

The finance leader for four overseas EPC operating entities has taken an internal transfer to a new group assignment before local successors are ready. Several cash and expenditure decisions still depend on that executive's informal coordination between project offices and headquarters. The interim VP Finance will take ownership of the regional operating finance perimeter and establish usable delegation while a permanent regional appointment is completed.

The twelve-month assignment starts on 26 October 2026 at five days each week, based in Mumbai with approved project-office travel. The opening month confirms local obligations, banking access and decision owners. Later work strengthens entity management routines and regional finance leadership. An extension requires written CFO approval and an overall engagement duration no greater than twenty-four months, keeping continuity work separate from an indefinite international expansion remit.

Financial responsibility must follow the entity and contract facts, not the location of whoever answers an urgent message first. Local teams need to know which expenditure they can authorise, which cash can support their obligations and how headquarters will handle a material exception. The VP will resolve those operating boundaries with specialist input, ensuring an apparently profitable project is not financed through an undocumented cross-entity arrangement that local approvals cannot support.

Within approved limits, the interim directs finance work, operational expenditure review and regional cash prioritisation. New country entry, material borrowing, exceptional settlements and changes to entity structure require authorised group decisions. Qualified local advisers retain legal, tax and regulatory interpretations, and engineering retains project execution. The seat excludes renegotiating entire contract portfolios, replacing all local finance systems and taking over construction management.

Handover requires a permanent regional VP and local managers who complete two reporting cycles, operate approved payment delegations and reproduce the entity cash plans without interim coordination. Remaining restrictions and material open decisions must have accepted ownership and escalation dates. The CFO and International Business Head jointly accept a successor-led operating review, ensuring the transition leaves accountable finance leadership rather than a central inbox that only the interim can manage effectively.

What you will own

• Establish the regional finance decision perimeter by entity, account and operating obligation, identifying instructions that currently depend on undocumented headquarters intervention before they are accepted as workable local delegation.
• Decide immediate finance priorities through local cash and reporting exposure, protecting payroll, essential suppliers and entity obligations while unresolved commercial matters follow their appropriate decision routes.
• Govern expenditure review and approval evidence within the existing delegation, distinguishing operating authority from material commitments that local managers must escalate to headquarters rather than approve through informal precedent.
• Build entity cash plans with verified access and cross-border restrictions, obtaining specialist conclusions before assuming that one project's funds can finance another entity's delivery commitments.
• Lead regional management reporting and exception review with local finance owners, exposing unsupported balances and delayed decisions without replacing their accountability with permanent central preparation of every schedule.
• Develop local finance managers through witnessed operating decisions, strengthening their ability to challenge project assumptions, use approved authority and communicate a material escalation clearly to group leadership.
• Transfer the regional finance seat through successor-operated cash, reporting and delegation tests, securing joint sponsor acceptance of outstanding restrictions and removing reliance on the interim's personal coordination channels.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate senior overseas EPC, infrastructure or equivalent project finance leadership across several operating entities, including a regional responsibility change or another material finance transition. Describe the financial perimeter you clarified, the local decisions established and how executive sponsors accepted the remaining matters requiring headquarters or specialist authority. Evidence should show continuing operating accountability and a practical route for unresolved local dependencies.
• Bring strong cash, reporting and commercial-control judgement in cross-border project operations. Explain an operating request whose financial feasibility depended on entity restrictions or banking permissions, the evidence obtained and the authorised alternative. You must separate a useful financial recommendation from legal or regulatory interpretation that needs a qualified country owner, while keeping live project obligations visible.
• Show practical leadership of local finance managers under competing headquarters and project demands. Evidence should include delegation repair, material exception triage and development of managers who could operate without constant executive intervention. Describe a decision you intentionally left local and another you escalated, explaining how the boundary was substantiated and reviewed rather than determined by personal confidence or rank.
• Establish five-day availability from the agreed date, including travel capacity, notice obligations and any concurrent appointments. Demonstrate a tested finance leadership transfer involving operating decisions and source evidence, with residual issues accepted by the right sponsors. The assignment requires calm regional accountability, disciplined handover and clear communication of the engineering, strategic and specialist decisions retained by 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 14 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-INT-2026-IND-071.