Consumer-Manufacturing Financial Governance Consultant

The mandate

The defined problem is fragmented governance between the manufacturing cash plan, operating-margin explanation and evidence presented to the board. Each schedule may be accurate on its own, but the path from issue to authorised finance decision is not consistently documented. The consultant will create a Financial Governance Operating Pack for selected consumer-manufacturing decisions, not a general corporate-governance overhaul.

The six-month engagement starts on 19 October 2026 at three days weekly. Panaji workshops and planned India manufacturing visits establish the actual decisions and records; remote work builds the artifacts. Deliverables include a finance decision matrix, cash and margin evidence protocol, board-issue register and controlled review guide for a selected live operating cycle.

Milestone one on 18 December 2026 supplies an accepted decision and evidence baseline, identifying gaps in authority and record linkage. By 18 February 2027, milestone two delivers the operating pack and a challenged rehearsal using actual manufacturing and treasury issues. Milestone three on 18 April 2027 consists of a live pilot, corrected controls and retained-manager replay of the finance-to-board issue path.

The CFO and governance sponsor accept the outputs. Every selected material issue must link its financial evidence, recommended option and authorised decision route, and users must distinguish operational action from accounting or statutory approval. The pilot must preserve gross obligations and unresolved risks rather than improve the board narrative through omission. Retained managers must reproduce an issue paper and its escalation without consultant reconstruction.

The sponsor supplies financial records, approved delegations, existing board packs and operating owners available to validate evidence. The consultant does not sign statutory accounts, execute borrowing, advise on legal disputes or redesign product-quality governance. New entities, historical remediation and system implementation require change approval. The engagement closes on accepted artifacts and transfer tests; ongoing CFO and board accountability do not migrate with the pack.

What you will own

• Inventory selected manufacturing-finance decisions and their delegations, identifying where routine operating approval is incorrectly treated as permission for accounting, borrowing or statutory action.
• Construct cash and margin evidence protocols linking source records to options, ensuring known obligations and production assumptions remain visible in the decision paper.
• Develop a board-issue register that distinguishes an unresolved risk, a pending approval and a completed action with proof rather than a narrative status label.
• Design review controls preserving independent challenge and approval history for material finance matters without turning every small operating variance into a board agenda item.
• Pilot the pack through an actual operating review, tracing selected issues from manufacturing or treasury evidence to authorised finance and board decisions.
• Transfer the review guide and issue-paper method through retained-manager replay, correcting usability gaps and documenting responsibilities that remain outside the consulting scope.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate twenty-eight-plus years in finance with CFO or comparable senior governance accountability in consumer manufacturing or related operating businesses. Provide a decision-control or board-evidence process you personally designed, the risk it exposed and how authorised leaders used it. Seniority must be supported by specific governance outcomes.
• Show practical manufacturing finance and treasury-control judgement, including inventory, production margin, trade obligations and sanctioned funding. Explain a case where fragmented schedules obscured a material cash or approval issue, and how your evidence protocol made the decision reproducible without broadening finance authority.
• Bring experience organising board finance evidence with clear statutory, legal and executive boundaries. Describe how you separated a recommended operating action from required accounting or board approval, and show a material limitation you kept visible despite pressure for a cleaner narrative. The role does not provide independent audit assurance.
• Prove fixed-fee artifact delivery, live-cycle testing and transfer to retained finance managers. Supply an anonymised control matrix or issue paper example, explain pilot corrections and describe handling of new-scope requests. The consultant must leave ongoing governance ownership with the CFO and board rather than create a permanent dependency on external preparation.

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 10 October 2026. Mandate reference PCT-CON-2026-IND-52.