Purchase Accounting Valuation Bridge Director

The mandate

This consulting assignment has one defined objective: create the accounting bridge that connects approved valuation work and transaction facts to a complete, controlled opening-balance conclusion. The Consulting Director will own issue coordination, accounting papers, source-to-entry traceability and control evidence. The role does not negotiate transaction terms, issue valuation opinions or operate subsequent integration.

The required artifacts are a fact-and-decision inventory, identifiable-asset and liability accounting matrix, valuation-input governance log, deferred-tax interface memorandum, consideration bridge, opening-entry catalogue, measurement-period issue tracker, disclosure support file and owner handbook. Every amount must link to an approved fact, management conclusion or named specialist output.

Four milestones apply: confirmed scope and issue inventory by 30 October 2026; draft accounting positions and specialist instruction map by 27 November; provisional opening entries and disclosures by 15 January 2027; final accepted bridge and handover by 26 February. The Chief Accounting Officer accepts each package after nominated accounting, tax and valuation reviewers document their challenge.

Acceptance is evidence-based. An internal controller uninvolved in construction must select sample balances, trace them from agreement or specialist source through accounting rationale to entry and disclosure, and identify the owner and deadline for every unresolved measurement-period item. Any unowned material difference or unsupported valuation-to-ledger adjustment prevents final acceptance.

Management provides executed documents, approved transaction facts, timely accounting elections, access to responsible specialists and responses within five working days. Consultant responsibilities end at the accepted accounting bridge. Legal advice, tax opinion, valuation opinion, negotiation, systems loading and post-transaction operating integration are excluded and enter change control if requested.

What you will own

• Build a complete inventory of accounting facts, elections, specialist dependencies and decisions needed for opening recognition.
• Translate approved valuation outputs into accounting treatments with transparent unit of account, useful life and classification rationale.
• Reconcile all forms of consideration, including contingent or deferred elements, to approved terms and entry logic.
• Coordinate the deferred-tax interface so that accounting and tax specialists resolve differences without blurred ownership.
• Maintain a measurement-period tracker showing information sought, accounting consequence, owner and closure date.
• Construct entries and disclosure support with a traceable chain from source evidence through judgment and approval.
• Test the bridge through independent internal reperformance and close all critical traceability defects.
• Enforce change control for negotiation, specialist opinions, loading or post-combination operating activity.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate leadership of purchase accounting under IFRS 3 or ASC 805 at issue-paper and opening-entry depth.
• Describe a valuation-to-accounting disconnect you identified and how the underlying unit of account or fact pattern was resolved.
• Show direct experience with contingent consideration, replacement awards, pre-existing relationships or measurement-period adjustments.
• Evidence effective governance of valuation and tax specialist inputs without presenting their work as your opinion.
• Provide an opening-balance traceability test that an internal controller successfully performed.
• Explain how you distinguished accounting bridge work from transaction negotiation and integration requests.
• Show milestone discipline under a fixed timetable with unresolved facts and several senior decision owners.

Working terms and boundaries

• The fee covers five months at five days weekly and four milestone packages with eight-working-day acceptance windows.
• The Chief Accounting Officer owns accounting conclusions; designated specialists retain responsibility for their opinions and calculations.
• Final acceptance requires traceable opening entries, controlled unresolved items and successful internal reperformance.
• Delayed documents or management elections are dependencies and may move dates through written change control.
• Negotiation, due diligence, legal and tax opinions, systems loading and operational integration are outside scope.

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-CON-2026-GVA-20.