Hospitality Expansion Funding and Asset Deployment Adviser

The mandate

The investment committee's standing question is how to fund hospitality expansion without allowing attractive asset opportunities to outrun operating readiness and cash resilience. The adviser will compare ownership, lease and phased deployment choices through their financial consequences. The remit concerns capital judgement, not selecting hotel concepts or acting as a property broker.

Three days monthly cover an investment-case review, a discussion with operating and finance sponsors, and committee attendance. Attendance is included in the retainer. Between meetings, the adviser acknowledges an asset-funding question by the next working day and provides a reasoned view within three working days when the agreed records are available; emergency negotiations remain the executive team's responsibility.

The term lasts nine months from 19 October 2026. Renewal is decided by the investment committee chair after reviewing independence and decision usefulness. The retainer confers no line authority and imposes no executive responsibility on the adviser, who cannot approve an asset purchase, instruct treasury or commit to a lease; each recommendation remains an input to authorised decisions.

The committee supplies asset cases, financing scenarios and operating ramp assumptions without identifying confidential counterparties beyond what the review requires. Advice should reveal how occupancy ramp, fit-out timing and fixed commitments alter the cash downside. A nominally cheaper funding option may be unsuitable if it removes flexibility before operating evidence is established.

Other advisory work is permissible unless it creates a competing interest in the asset, operator or financing route under review. Property brokerage fees, lender referral remuneration and investment in a competing project create a conflict that must be disclosed. Transaction execution, tax opinions and operational launch management are excluded. The committee is purchasing independent finance challenge, not an endorsement that can substitute for diligence.

What you will own

• Challenge funding alternatives against ramp-up cash needs, pressing sponsors to show how fixed commitments are serviced before the operating case reaches its expected maturity.
• Test asset-use assumptions for realistic deployment sequencing, distinguishing capacity that can be activated later from expenditure required before any useful operating evidence emerges.
• Shape downside comparisons across purchase, lease and phased commitment options, making termination cost and refinancing dependence visible alongside headline returns.
• Examine fit-out and pre-opening assumptions for omitted cash items, advising whether the proposed capital allowance actually covers the route to a serviceable asset.
• Press the committee to identify evidence triggers for subsequent deployment, so a phased strategy contains a real decision gate rather than a predetermined spending calendar.
• Review financing narratives for mismatch between asset liquidity and repayment obligations, identifying where an apparently efficient structure concentrates avoidable execution risk.
• Record independent recommendations and recusal decisions, leaving all counterparty engagement, asset approval and binding signatures with authorised executives and preserving the evidence behind your advice.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate senior finance experience in hospitality, real assets or an operating business with substantial pre-revenue capital commitments. Describe an asset deployment decision you challenged, the cash ramp considered and the financial consequence of choosing a different structure or sequence.
• Show funding judgement beyond a discounted-cash-flow headline. Candidates should explain how repayment timing, flexibility and operating uncertainty affected a recommendation, including a case where the lower apparent cost of finance was not the prudent choice.
• Provide evidence of assessing investment cases alongside operational readiness without becoming the launch manager. Explain which operating assumptions you verified, what could not be established and how that uncertainty was reflected in a staged recommendation rather than concealed in a single return figure.
• Evidence independence from transaction incentives and the ability to sustain the reserved advisory cadence. Disclose relevant brokerage, lender, operator or investment relationships and explain how confidentiality is maintained across concurrent work. The role requires experienced financial challenge, not assumed property-development authority or an unsupported claim of regulated investment advice. Show how a downside funding scenario made both its financial consequence and the evidence for revisiting the decision clear to the committee.

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 12 October 2026. Mandate reference PCT-ADV-2026-IND-05.