Finance GCC Scaling and Control Concentration — Operating Adviser

The mandate

The capability governance committee returns to a difficult question: when does consolidating finance work improve control, and when does it concentrate knowledge, processing and review into a fragile perimeter? The adviser will test proposed scale choices through retained accountability and resilience. This is not a location-selection contract or an implementation mandate for transferring finance services.

Four days monthly support a service proposal review, a risk challenge workshop, committee attendance and preparation; committee participation is included in the retainer. Complete ad-hoc submissions receive a first response within three business days. Pune is the principal meeting base, with remote global-owner sessions and planned India location observations replacing agreed workshop time.

The term begins on 19 October 2026 and ends on 18 July 2027. Renewal is decided by the capability governance chair after reviewing whether challenge materially changed migration or control choices. A later decision to design or run a transition must be separately contracted; the advisory term does not quietly turn into delivery leadership.

The adviser exercises influence only, with no line authority and no executive responsibility. Recommendations may challenge a migration, request stronger retained approval or identify risk concentration, but cannot instruct the capability team to proceed. Global finance owners, location leaders and risk executives retain their decisions and must record how they respond to the advice.

Non-competing retainers may coexist if sufficient monthly capacity is reserved. Advisory work for a finance-outsourcing bidder, a competing banking capability centre or a supplier involved in the proposed transition creates a conflict requiring disclosure. Recruitment commissions, technology resale and assurance opinions are excluded because they would distort or overstate this governance role.

What you will own

• Challenge scale proposals by tracing who produces, reviews and accepts finance outputs, identifying concentrations that remain invisible in ordinary organisational charts or service-volume summaries.
• Probe migration assumptions for knowledge retention, fallback capacity and escalation coverage, requiring evidence that critical judgement is not dependent on one location or individual.
• Test retained-control claims against actual decision rights, distinguishing an approving executive from a passive recipient of completed service packs and exception reports.
• Shape governance questions around reversibility and transition sequencing, recommending hold points where unresolved ownership would make additional migration unsafe or difficult to unwind.
• Press sponsors to compare efficiency benefits with continuing review and resilience costs, avoiding savings claims that omit work retained in the originating region.
• Review the committee's decision record for explicit acceptance of concentration risks and conditions that would trigger reconsideration of the approved capability design.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate senior finance capability or operational-risk judgement in a controlled global service environment. Describe a scaling proposal you challenged and the specific retained-accountability change that followed. A record of expanding headcount or meeting delivery targets does not alone demonstrate the ability to judge concentration and control boundary risks.
• Provide technical understanding of finance service dependencies, financial accounting reviews and SOX-related evidence requirements. Show how an organisational design affected actual control performance, including the different duties of producer, reviewer and approver. Candidates must distinguish advisory assessment from a formal assurance conclusion and refer specialised regulatory interpretation to authorised experts.
• Show governance influence without delivery authority, including a recommendation not adopted and a residual-risk record that remained useful. Explain how conflicting local and global incentives were surfaced. The required perspective includes financial and operational judgement, not a generic location strategy or supplier selection sales pitch disguised as independent capability advice.
• Establish twenty-three years of relevant career evidence, credible functional leadership and strict commercial independence. Disclose bidder retainers, recruitment remuneration and technology-linked incentives, and demonstrate a realistic four-day monthly allocation. Confidential information from one capability client must never be used as a purported benchmark or identifying example for another organisation's committee.

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 13 October 2026. Mandate reference PCT-ADV-2026-IND-24.