Executive Performance Narrative and KPI Integrity Director

The mandate

The Executive Performance Committee requires independent advice on whether its management narrative faithfully represents the evidence. Measures have accumulated over time, causal claims can outpace analysis, and favourable movement is not always separated from timing, mix or external conditions. The adviser will strengthen judgement without becoming an alternative report-production function.

The standing question for each monthly review is simple but exacting: what changed, why did it change, what action remains available and what evidence would disprove the current explanation? Three days a week will cover data-to-narrative challenge, author clinics and participation in the formal committee cadence.

The Director has no line authority, editorial veto or delegated approval. The adviser may flag unsupported assertions, recommend removal or reframing and record unresolved discrepancies for the Chair. Management authors retain their statements; the committee retains acceptance and action decisions.

The four-month term is intended to reset standards, review four complete packs and transfer a repeatable challenge protocol. Renewal requires a distinct new question. Conflicts include recent work for parties evaluated in the performance narrative, relevant financial interests and relationships that could constrain candid challenge; all must be disclosed before access.

What you will own

• Inventory executive KPIs and classify each as outcome, driver, control, milestone or context, removing category ambiguity from committee discussion.
• Test definition, source, frequency, ownership, threshold and decision relevance for every measure retained in the core pack.
• Introduce a narrative protocol that separates fact, estimate, causal interpretation, management judgement, risk and committed action.
• Review four monthly packs line by line for numerical reconciliation, causal sufficiency, balanced counterevidence and action specificity.
• Build bridges that distinguish underlying movement from timing, scope, mix, one-off and methodology effects.
• Coach named authors to write concise explanations whose claims can be traced to evidence and whose uncertainty is explicit.
• Establish an exceptions log for metric redefinition, late restatement, unsupported cause and overdue action, with committee dispositions recorded.
• Deliver a final integrity opinion identifying improvements, unresolved weaknesses and the owners responsible after advisory closure.

Candidate qualifications

• Seventeen or more years in FP&A, performance management, controllership-facing analysis or executive reporting.
• Examples of materially correcting an executive narrative where numbers reconciled but the claimed cause did not.
• Deep knowledge of KPI design, bridge analysis, causal inference limits, target effects, metric gaming and disclosure discipline.
• Evidence of challenging powerful report owners while keeping authorship and accountability with management.
• Experience reducing performance packs without losing decision information, including the criteria used to retire measures.
• Board or executive committee exposure sufficient to distinguish useful brevity from omission of material uncertainty.
• Willingness and ability to disclose relationships that may affect independent review of management performance claims.

Working terms and boundaries

• The appointment is three days weekly for four months, encompassing author clinics, independent review and one ordinary committee per month.
• No line authority, report approval, assurance opinion or management authorship is conferred by the advisory engagement.
• Conflicts are reviewed at commencement and before each monthly pack; restricted topics are documented with the Chair.
• Data correction, system remediation and formal internal audit are outside scope, though suspected weaknesses will be referred to accountable functions.
• Closure follows four reviewed packs, adoption of the narrative protocol and Chair acceptance of the final integrity note.

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 11 October 2026. Mandate reference FPA-ADV-2026-RUH-15.