Global Finance Operating Council Advisory Director

The mandate

The adviser will help a global finance operating council move from status exchange to consequential cross-border decisions. The standing question is which issues merit global attention, what evidence is required and when accountability should remain with a regional or process owner.

Three days each week will cover a fortnightly owner clinic, decision-paper review and one monthly council. The adviser will focus on close, cash, service, control, process and talent dependencies that cross formal ownership. Advice will expose displaced work and recurring escalation.

The council should record alternatives, dissent, chosen action, owner, due date and revisit trigger. Issues without a required choice should remain in operating management. The adviser will coach chairs and owners rather than become the permanent secretariat.

Council effectiveness will be assessed through decisions sampled after the meeting. The adviser will test whether actions occurred, whether affected regions understood the choice, whether new evidence triggered the promised review and whether an issue returned because authority was unclear. This evidence will reshape agendas and thresholds before the advisory term ends.

There is no line authority, approval right or power to commit resources. Management owns decisions and follow-through. Provider, board and investor interests relevant to council recommendations must be disclosed.

At month six, the council should show shorter decision latency, fewer repeated escalations and owner-led preparation. The final opinion will identify unresolved authority gaps.

The adviser will leave a calibrated council scorecard that separates speed from decision quality. Measures will include evidence completeness, action closure, issues reopened with new facts and escalations caused by missing authority. The chair will receive a ninety-day improvement agenda and examples of items that should be removed from future agendas.

The closing council will operate without the adviser preparing its papers. Owners must frame choices, disclose conflicts and propose decision triggers themselves. The adviser will observe, give final written feedback and record any capability gap requiring management ownership after the term.

Management will acknowledge the final gap register and assign each item a leader and review date. Advisory closure therefore does not imply that every governance weakness has already been removed.

The chair will confirm that future council preparation is resourced internally and that confidential decision evidence has an authorised custodian.

What you will own

• Define council scope and escalation thresholds.
• Establish concise evidence and option standards.
• Remove information-only items from executive time.
• Record decisions, dissent, owners and revisit triggers.
• Track latency, recurrence and follow-through.
• Coach chairs and issue owners to operate independently.
• Recommend governance changes without conferring authority.
• Deliver an independent effectiveness assessment.

Candidate qualifications

• Show advisory work improving a global finance council.
• Provide a recurring escalation resolved through clearer ownership.
• Demonstrate decision papers that fairly represented alternatives.
• Evidence influence without line or resource authority.
• Describe a forum that continued after advisory exit.
• Disclose relevant provider, board or investor conflicts.

Working terms and boundaries

• The retainer covers three days a week, fortnightly clinic and monthly council.
• Extra board attendance or implementation requires separate agreement.
• The adviser has no line authority and cannot approve choices, commit resources or direct owners.
• Management owns decisions, actions and risk acceptance.
• Conflicts require continuing disclosure.

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 7 October 2026. Mandate reference RHF-ADV-2026-GVA-13.