Provisions and Contingencies Resolution Director

The mandate

The Interim Director will resolve a concentrated backlog of provision and contingency judgments before the next major reporting cycle, then install a disciplined recurring review. The problem is not simply old items. It is uneven evidence about obligation, probability, measurement range, timing and disclosure, combined with unclear ownership when facts sit outside finance.

In the first two weeks, the Director will establish a complete population from accounting records and independent legal, contractual and operational sources. Each matter will receive an accountable fact owner, accounting owner, decision date and evidence request. The interim may return incomplete papers, convene cross-functional reviews and recommend entries or disclosures; the Chief Accounting Officer retains reserved approvals.

The Director will insist on a clean separation between fact gathering, privileged legal advice and accounting conclusion. Ranges and sensitivities must be visible, unsupported precision challenged, and contrary evidence preserved. Matters will be prioritised by potential financial and disclosure consequence, not by the ease of closing an old item.

By month three, all high-risk items must have an approved route and the recurring review process must be operating. A nominated internal owner will then chair two review cycles, manage evidence deadlines and demonstrate that new matters enter the population promptly. The final handover includes a decision register, evidence calendar, disclosure linkage and open-item brief.

The remit excludes legal case management, negotiation, tax positions, insurance recovery pursuit and permanent staffing. The assignment has no desired earnings outcome: release, increase, recognition and disclosure decisions must follow evidence. The six-week extension cap exists only for a genuine owner-transfer gap, never to postpone difficult conclusions.

What you will own

• Reconcile the provision population to independent indicators and document matters missing from the accounting review.
• Rank cases by potential statement and disclosure consequence, uncertainty, evidence age and governance urgency.
• Require papers to distinguish present obligation, probability, measurement, timing, reimbursement and disclosure analysis.
• Convene timely reviews with fact owners while protecting legal privilege and preserving responsibility boundaries.
• Recommend supported accounting action and escalate reserved conclusions with alternatives and contrary evidence visible.
• Establish a recurring review calendar tied to events and evidence refresh, not only quarter-end reminders.
• Test an internal owner through two chaired cycles and direct observation of at least one difficult escalation.
• Deliver an accepted handover with unresolved matters, next actions, evidence dependencies and reconsideration triggers.

Candidate qualifications

• Show leadership of a provisions and contingencies review involving incomplete facts and sensitive cross-functional ownership.
• Describe a matter where you challenged unsupported precision or an outdated probability assessment.
• Evidence mastery of recognition, measurement, range, discounting, reimbursement and disclosure judgments.
• Explain how you preserved legal privilege while obtaining enough information for a sound accounting conclusion.
• Provide an example where evidence required an unwelcome result and how you resisted outcome-led pressure.
• Demonstrate a population-completeness method that found matters absent from the existing accounting register.
• Show how you transferred recurring review to an internal leader within a finite interim term.

Working terms and boundaries

• The six-month assignment is five days a week and covers population recovery, decision resolution, two control cycles and handover.
• The Interim Director advises accounting treatment and controls the review process but cannot direct legal strategy or settle claims.
• Day rates include scheduled remote work and travel; additional international travel needs written pre-approval.
• Extension is limited to six weeks for a proven transfer deficiency and cannot be used to delay an adverse conclusion.
• Legal management, negotiation, tax, insurance recovery and permanent organisation design are excluded.

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 6 October 2026. Mandate reference FNA-INT-2026-STO-18.