India Finance Director — Commodity Trading and Governance Bridge

The mandate

The India finance head role oversees country finance accountability, connecting economic exposure, funding and authorised entity decisions at director level. The bridge must restore country finance accountability without assuming group CFO or trading discretion.

The term starts on 19 October 2026 for twelve months, based in Mumbai with planned India operating and finance reviews. Regional interfaces are primarily remote, with travel only against an approved agenda. A permanent India finance leader is sought concurrently, and the successor participates in the final exposure, reporting and governance cycles before formal transfer.

Handover requires an accepted exposure-to-finance bridge, an entity-aware cash review and a governance register whose decisions can be traced to evidence and approval. Three reporting cycles must distinguish commercial positions, accounting balances and funding consequences. The successor must chair a country finance review and receive unresolved collateral, counterparty, tax and entity approvals with their owners and decision histories.

The director may approve finance procedures, management reporting adjustments and working-capital priorities within the regional CFO's delegation. New trading limits, borrowing, guarantees, permanent restructuring and statutory signatures remain with authorised executives or appointed officers. Out-of-plan commitments above ₹30 lakh require approval. Board-administration responsibility cannot be used to imply authority to make board decisions or issue company-secretarial opinions.

The bridge excludes trading strategy, commodity price prediction, reserve certification and a full legal-entity restructuring. It includes disciplined corporate finance, reporting and governance in a trading context. The leader must expose where a profitable commercial position still consumes cash or collateral, preserve controlled accounting and leave a decision process that does not rely on a temporary finance head personally mediating every exception.

What you will own

• Approve a country exposure-to-finance bridge distinguishing trading economics, accounting balances and funding requirements before apparent profit is treated as evidence of deployable cash.
• Resolve working-capital review priorities using receivable, payable and collateral evidence, escalating new funding or guarantee needs through the regional CFO's existing authority.
• Set an entity-governance decision register connecting board and management approvals to source papers, delegated limits and accountable follow-up without assuming board voting powers.
• Challenge counterparty and settlement assumptions in finance forecasts, keeping commercial trading limits and legal interpretation with their authorised specialist and executive owners.
• Authorize management reporting controls that preserve gross exposure and intercompany rationale rather than improving country performance through unsupported netting or unexplained adjustments.
• Transfer the country finance and governance cycle through a successor-led review, including reproducible exposure assumptions and ownership of remaining collateral, tax or approval issues.

Candidate qualifications

• Show eighteen or more years in finance with head-of-finance or director-equivalent responsibility in commodities, natural resources or related trading operations. Present a country finance decision you personally held, the commercial and cash constraints involved and the realised outcome. Identify the India approval you could exercise, the regional or statutory decision you escalated and the collateral or settlement evidence supporting the resulting action.
• Demonstrate corporate finance and reporting capability connecting commodity positions, settlement and collateral to controlled accounts and liquidity. Explain a case where apparent trading profitability did not support expected cash availability, and show the evidence and approved action used to resolve the difference.
• Bring board-governance and global stakeholder experience grounded in clear delegations and verifiable decision records. A recognised accounting qualification is expected. Describe how you organised an entity approval or contested reporting matter while preserving legal, statutory and company-secretarial powers with their appointed owners.
• Prove leadership of country finance teams and practical successor transfer across regional interfaces. Explain how another leader reproduced an exposure or cash review, understood unresolved counterparties and retained the approval history. The role does not assume commodity trading, reserve or legal expertise from a finance title, and requires the specified twelve-month Mumbai-based executive availability.

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-INT-2026-IND-56.