Control Automation Remediation Director

The mandate

An interim director is required to remediate finance control automations whose ownership, evidence or fallback has become unreliable. Some controls still produce outputs, but changes in inputs, process or supporting logic have not been consistently reflected in testing and monitoring. The leadership gap must be closed without disabling essential finance operations or accepting automated output on faith.

Within ten working days, the director will identify material automated and automation-dependent controls, protect critical reporting and payment paths, and assign risk status. By day 30, every high-risk item must have an owner, containment, evidence requirement, remediation route and fallback. The director may impose temporary manual review or recommend suspension within documented control authority.

The first four months focus on validating input completeness, logic intent, exception handling, change history, access, output review and fallback operation. Remediation priority depends on financial consequence and control reliance, not technical complexity alone. The director will ensure temporary manual activity is documented, resourced and given an expiry rather than treated as free protection.

The role owns recovery cadence, finance-side resource sequence and evidential readiness. It cannot change production logic personally, grant access, conclude on accounting policy, certify controls outside delegation or select a replacement platform. Technology and control owners remain accountable for those decisions.

Months five through eight will prove remediated controls across representative cycles, retire temporary measures and transfer the portfolio to permanent owners and deputies. Any extension is solely for this handover. The final account will distinguish remediated, replaced, retired and consciously accepted residual items.

What you will own

• Create an authoritative population of material finance control automations, dependencies, owners, evidence and fallback conditions.
• Risk-rank items by financial exposure, control reliance, input volatility, change history and detectability.
• Establish containment for high-risk controls, including resourced manual review with approval, evidence and expiry.
• Require source-to-output testing and exception-path evidence before recommending remediation closure.
• Exercise temporary authority over recovery sequencing and finance review conditions within formal delegation.
• Coordinate production changes through authorised technology and change owners without seeking direct access.
• Prove remediated controls over representative live cycles and test fallback where consequence warrants it.
• Transfer the portfolio, residual risk, monitoring and deputies into permanent control ownership.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate recovery of automated finance controls where outputs continued despite weak ownership or change evidence.
• Show how you found an input or logic change that conventional completion reporting had missed.
• Provide an example of introducing a manual fallback without allowing it to become invisible permanent work.
• Bring finance-control depth and enough automation judgement to test logic, exceptions, monitoring and change history.
• Evidence leadership without direct production access or unauthorised control certification.
• Describe proof across live cycles that justified removing temporary enhanced review.
• Show a handover distinguishing remediated, retired, replaced and accepted residual controls.

Working terms and boundaries

• The eight-month interim appointment is five days a week with on-site presence through critical remediation and test cycles.
• Authority covers recovery priority, finance review conditions and evidence standards within documented delegation.
• Production changes, access grants, accounting policy, platform selection and control certification outside delegation are excluded.
• Temporary manual controls require owner, capacity, evidence, approval and expiry.
• An extension cannot exceed six weeks and exists only to complete transfer of accepted responsibilities to the permanent owner and deputy.

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 FNA-INT-2026-AUH-35.