UK and Ireland Finance Service Convergence Director

The mandate

This four-month project will define and pilot convergence of selected finance services across the United Kingdom and Ireland. No employer scale, sector, systems or service-provider identity is published. The aim is a controlled service design with explicit retained ownership, not indiscriminate standardisation.

Four dated milestones govern work: evidence and variation baseline by 30 October 2026; selected service design by 4 December; live pilot results by 15 January 2027; and final handbook by 26 February. The Group Chief Financial Officer accepts artifacts against traceability, control preservation, owner clarity and pilot performance.

The director will test which differences reflect obligation, operating value or inherited preference. The selected design must specify service promise, process-owner interface, controller responsibility, exception route, economics and exit conditions. Pilot evidence must include retained work and rework, not only provider measures.

The first pilot cycle will expose where instructions, data and ownership fail under normal volume; the second will test corrections at a demanding reporting point. Acceptance will consider first-time-right output, local intervention, unresolved exceptions, reviewer effort and whether control evidence is reproducible without consulting assistance.

Management provides authorised process evidence, control requirements, cost views and participants. The director can recommend design and coordinate the pilot but cannot make policy, personnel, provider, access or permanent implementation decisions.

Final acceptance requires two representative cycles, named permanent owners and a residual-variation ledger. Wider rollout, technology build and commercial negotiation are excluded.

The handbook will state service entry conditions, demand rules, control responsibilities, measure definitions, dispute escalation and evidence needed to withdraw an exception. It will quantify retained country roles and peak-cycle coverage. Economic benefit is accepted only when both service and retained teams agree the perimeter and pilots demonstrate it.

The final workshop will be run by the named permanent service and country owners. They must interpret pilot evidence, resolve a disputed measure and decide whether a remaining variation stays, expires or enters remediation. Successful independent operation is part of artifact acceptance, not optional training.

The consulting director will then issue a concise acceptance memorandum recording the decision, supporting evidence and any condition management chose to carry. That memorandum closes ambiguity between successful design and approved residual risk.

What you will own

• Evidence current services, variations, retained activity and control dependencies.
• Classify differences as obligation, value-bearing design or unsupported preference.
• Define converged service, retained ownership, measures and exception routes.
• Establish economics including rework, governance and local retained capacity.
• Run two representative pilot cycles and record failures and retests.
• Recommend rollout conditions while management retains approvals.
• Produce an owner handbook and residual-variation ledger.
• Leave an executable next-wave plan without consulting dependence.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate cross-market finance service convergence.
• Show a variation you preserved after proving its necessity.
• Provide an apparent service saving overturned by retained-work evidence.
• Evidence live pilot cycles with control and user measures.
• Bring clarity across process, service and controller accountabilities.
• Show fixed-scope discipline around build and negotiation exclusions.

Working terms and boundaries

• Delivery spans four milestones and four months at a five-day weekly commitment.
• Final artifact sign-off belongs to the Group Chief Financial Officer after evidence, control, ownership and pilot results are tested.
• Management supplies authorised inputs and participants on schedule.
• Policy, people, provider selection, access, build and rollout are excluded.
• Changes require written artifact, schedule, test and fee control.

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 8 October 2026. Mandate reference RHF-CON-2026-LON-98.