Treasury Separation Readiness Principal — Automotive Standalone Liquidity and Control Architecture

The mandate

An automotive business preparing to separate from a larger operating group needs to understand which treasury resources and services it can use independently. Current cash, investments, funding and protection records include former-group arrangements whose ownership or continuing availability has not been consistently mapped. The principal will deliver a standalone liquidity and treasury-control architecture, giving sponsors a tested readiness assessment without assuming execution of the separation or operation of the future treasury function.

The six-month project starts on 26 October 2026 and reserves three days each week, including Pune discovery and acceptance sessions. The first artifact, due on 10 December 2026, is the treasury rights and dependency diagnostic. On 19 February 2027, milestone two provides the standalone liquidity baseline, funding-interface design and control scenarios. Final delivery on 26 April 2027 comprises an owner-run readiness rehearsal, the validated operating pack and an explicit implementation dependency file.

The CFO and separation sponsor accept the stages jointly. The diagnostic must tie every material resource and service to source evidence, a qualified rights owner and an identified continuation condition. The baseline must reconcile to the agreed opening finance perimeter and distinguish independent capacity from former-group support. Tests remove a shared cash-pool inflow, change an obligation's currency and interrupt a banking interface; owners must explain the consequences and route each dependency without the principal repairing the case for them.

Payment releases are 25% for the accepted diagnostic, 35% for the design and 40% for final rehearsal and transfer. The sponsor supplies treasury records, approved separation assumptions, specialist-validated legal positions, bank and service agreements, and seven owners with protected review time. Final acceptance depends on reproducible artifacts and internal understanding, not the legal transaction date, bank approval of a new facility or completion of actions that management has not yet authorised.

The principal defines methods, exposes gaps and facilitates tests, while management retains funding, investment, payment and implementation decisions. Legal and tax opinions, negotiation of debt allocation and live bank-system configuration are excluded. Additional entities, instruments or implementation support require written scope revision with new acceptance evidence, calendar and fees. The pack must remain useful when an unresolved dependency prevents immediate independence: a candid readiness condition is preferable to a diagram that silently assumes access to resources the standalone business does not yet control.

What you will own

• Produce the treasury rights and dependency diagnostic by reconciling balances, facilities, investments and shared services to documented owners, identifying where approved separation assumptions still lack supporting professional evidence.
• Construct the standalone liquidity baseline with entity finance owners, distinguishing independently accessible resources from contingent former-group support and reconciling material opening obligations to the agreed financial perimeter.
• Design treasury interfaces and responsibility routes for funding, investment and exposure information, preserving specialist conclusions while specifying the evidence required before management can rely on a proposed standalone arrangement.
• Build scenario scripts that remove shared resources or alter settlement conditions, showing financial and operating consequences without assuming that a future facility or contractual approval will automatically replace the dependency.
• Validate internal interpretation through owner-led unfamiliar cases, repairing ambiguous methods and documenting where a readiness limitation requires an implementation decision rather than a consulting model adjustment.
• Compile the implementation dependency file with accountable sponsors and approval conditions, keeping outstanding bank, legal and technology actions separate from the artifacts accepted within the six-month engagement.
• Transfer the final operating pack through a witnessed rehearsal and independent recalculation, leaving versioned assumptions, test outcomes and maintenance instructions that the nominated owners can use without continuing principal support.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate a treasury operating change where cash rights, shared support or entity responsibilities had to be reconstructed from evidence. Separation, corporate restructuring or a comparable multi-entity redesign can establish relevance. Explain a dependency that changed the apparent liquidity conclusion and the method you used to keep it visible. The requirement is personally defended treasury analysis, not merely participation in a transaction steering group.
• Bring senior automotive treasury, capital markets or comparable manufacturing finance experience across an 18–22-year career. Show command of cash investment, funding and exposure records sufficient to distinguish resource ownership from operational access. Finance education or equivalent proven specialist depth should support coordination with legal, tax and accounting owners, whose opinions remain separate from the principal's readiness architecture.
• Have produced an operating model or control pack that internal professionals could test independently. Explain a deliberately disrupted input or unfamiliar case that exposed an incorrect assumption, what you repaired and what remained a management dependency. The principal must translate uncertain rights and incomplete records into useful conditions without promising standalone funding availability or transaction outcomes outside the accepted consulting scope.
• Reserve three weekly days for the full project and demonstrate practical sponsor-input and variation control. Evidence should include agreed acceptors, artifact tests and a transfer that reduced reliance on the original designer. You must communicate incomplete readiness candidly, preserve confidential financial information and distinguish the accepted design from live implementation work that requires separate authority, staffing and commercial agreement.

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 14 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-CON-2026-IND-271.