Thirteen-Week Cash and Turnaround Decision Control Room — Consulting Director

The mandate

Short-term cash forecasts and turnaround actions are maintained separately, so the recovery team cannot reliably explain which decisions change liquidity and which merely shift obligations. The consultant will build a thirteen-week cash and decision-control method. The defined project does not include payment execution, creditor negotiation, formal insolvency work or a guarantee that the organisation can be rescued.

The deliverable is a Thirteen-Week Cash and Turnaround Control Room Pack with obligation sources, action assumptions, weekly variance logic, decision rights and an operator guide. The thirteen-week horizon rolls during the four-month term; it is not a static forecast abandoned after its first endpoint. The pack must distinguish authorised action, proposed option and uncertain stakeholder dependency.

Cash evidence discovery begins on 19 October 2026. The source and obligation baseline is due on 30 November 2026; tested cash-action modules and a weekly control-room pilot on 11 January 2027; the fresh-week validation, internal rehearsal and accepted pack on 18 February 2027. The fee is paid 25%, 35% and 40% once the respective deliverables pass review.

The CFO and recovery programme sponsor jointly accept the work. They must reproduce sampled obligations, explain forecast-to-actual variances and identify retained approval of a material action. Final acceptance requires internal owners to roll the forecast into a new week and decide a difficult cash-priority case without consultant direction or unsupported assumption that a creditor concession has already been obtained.

The sponsor provides approved cash records, obligation evidence, operating action inputs and access to treasury and authorised stakeholder reviewers. Sensitive terms remain restricted. Payment release, legal representation, asset-sale execution and production system changes are excluded; substantive historical reconstruction or additional operating scope requires signed change control with revised dates, tests and authority boundaries.

What you will own

• Establish obligation and cash sources with authorised owners, distinguishing unrestricted balances, unavoidable calls and proposed recovery actions before building the thirteen-week forecast and decision-control baseline or priority logic.
• Reconcile operating actions to cash timing with explicit approval status, preventing projected supplier, creditor or customer changes from being treated as executed commitments in the weekly liquidity view.
• Define forecast-to-actual variance rules that preserve source and timing evidence, separating genuine operating improvement from obligations deferred or moved outside the apparent recovery presentation.
• Construct control-room decision and escalation maps with retained owners, ensuring the consultant's method cannot authorise payment release, legal concessions or restructuring actions outside existing executive and stakeholder approval.
• Pilot the weekly review on adverse and disputed cases, recording unsupported assumptions and hold conditions rather than forcing the forecast to show adequate headroom for the preferred recovery plan.
• Validate internal treasury and workstream owners on a fresh-week roll and cash-priority case, observing whether they preserve uncertainty and route retained decisions without informal consultant workarounds.
• Deliver the accepted control-room pack, update guide and residual-dependency register with creditor negotiation, formal insolvency and payment execution explicitly outside completed consulting design and acceptance or project billing.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate director-level turnaround finance, short-term cash or operating recovery project delivery with a personally built rolling forecast or decision artefact. Provide a redacted case that changed an action priority. Candidates must distinguish method design from payment execution, creditor negotiation and formal insolvency authority that this consulting appointment does not confer.
• Show practical thirteen-week cash, working-capital and obligation judgement with source and timing limitations understood. Explain an apparent recovery benefit that only deferred a future call on liquidity. Relevant finance qualification is useful, but legal rights, stakeholder concessions and material accounting positions must come from the authorised owners and remain explicitly evidenced in the model.
• Provide reproducible project acceptance with weekly variance tests, controlled pilot cases and reviewer challenge. Describe a fresh-week roll that exposed a defect and how it was corrected. The sponsor needs an internally maintainable control-room method, not a static cash presentation or a forecast whose adequate headroom depends on hidden manual adjustments and unverified recovery assumptions.
• Establish nineteen years of relevant experience, confidentiality and a completed transfer of cash methods to internal owners. Disclose creditor, buyer, supplier and implementation-linked remuneration, avoiding fees tied to a preferred restructuring outcome. Added source reconstruction must be scoped and priced before work, and unresolved stakeholder dependencies must remain visible rather than erased to satisfy acceptance.

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 PCT-CON-2026-IND-40.