Global Finance Governance Director

The mandate

The Global Finance Governance Director will own the permanent architecture through which material finance decisions are prepared, made, recorded and revisited. The role addresses fragmented councils, duplicated approvals and unresolved escalations without centralising accountabilities that properly sit with country, process or control owners.

In the first 100 days, the director will map high-consequence decisions and observe how existing forums operate. By month six, a decision taxonomy, authority catalogue and redesigned executive cadence should be live. By month twelve, decision latency, repeated deferral and unowned exceptions should be measurably lower.

The director can set governance standards, reject inadequate decision papers and require owners to record assumptions, dissent, action and review dates. Formal policy, statutory, control, capital and people authorities remain with designated executives. Governance quality is judged by decisions and follow-through, not meeting frequency.

The role will preserve constructive dissent and prevent pre-meeting negotiation from erasing alternatives. Decisions must state why an option was chosen, what would invalidate it and when evidence returns to the forum. Recurring information that triggers no choice should leave the executive agenda.

Governance data will become an operating signal. The director will examine repeated deferral, choices reopened without new facts, overdue owner actions and issues escalated because lower-level authority is unclear. Patterns will change thresholds, chair practice and information rights rather than simply increase meeting frequency.

The lasting capability includes a strong secretariat, clear chair disciplines and leaders able to decide at the appropriate level. Governance must remain effective when personalities change.

The governance office will maintain an authority-change record and periodically sample decisions for adherence and quality. It will not judge outcomes using hindsight alone; it will assess whether evidence, alternatives and risk were treated responsibly at the time. This protects candid decision-making while still identifying avoidable bias.

The director will set an annual review of reserved authorities and emergency delegations so governance remains current after leadership or operating change. Exceptions must expire unless renewed by the proper owner with evidence. This prevents temporary convenience from silently reshaping the global control model.

What you will own

• Map material finance decisions, formal owners and observed authority.
• Establish a taxonomy for policy, performance, capital, control, process and exception choices.
• Redesign forums around decision thresholds, pre-reads and accountable closure.
• Require alternatives, contrary evidence, assumptions and reversal triggers.
• Track latency, deferral, reopened decisions and follow-through.
• Remove information-only routines from scarce executive decision time.
• Build a capable governance office and chair succession.
• Report first-year improvements and unresolved authority collisions.

Candidate qualifications

• Show permanent executive governance leadership across global finance.
• Provide a forum you redesigned because meetings did not produce decisions.
• Demonstrate authority mapping where formal and observed ownership diverged.
• Evidence preservation of dissent and reversal triggers in senior decisions.
• Bring breadth across policy, performance, capital, controls and process governance.
• Describe governance that remained effective after sponsor or chair changes.

Working terms and boundaries

• This is a full-time permanent appointment owning finance governance standards and office capability.
• Formal policy, statutory, control, capital and people authority stays with designated executives.
• The director may reject decision papers but cannot assume the underlying approval.
• First-year assessment covers latency, decision quality, follow-through and governance succession.
• Long-term incentives follow plan and vesting rules.

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 5 October 2026. Mandate reference RHF-PER-2026-ZRH-03.