Associate Director Asset Accounting — GCC Capital Lifecycle Evidence

The mandate

A GCC finance service maintains capital-asset ledgers for four entities, but additions and retirements arrive with different meanings across procurement, custody and accounting records. Some assets remain in construction or staging accounts after becoming usable, while others appear financially retired without clear evidence of the authorised disposal. The organisation is creating an associate-director asset-accounting seat to own the service's control perimeter. Open-ended employment begins with an eighteen-month agenda to establish lifecycle evidence and accountable processing across those entity records.

The role connects events that must remain distinct. Purchase approval, invoice receipt, physical custody, readiness for use and accounting recognition do not necessarily share a date. A transfer between sites may change custody without changing the entity that owns the asset. You will require appropriate evidence for the accounting action and expose unresolved conditions instead of letting a plausible register total conceal the gap. Technical owners determine readiness and condition; the capital controller owns recognition policy and material estimates. The service team interprets approved evidence within that policy, rather than certifying the asset itself.

Twenty professionals report through accounting and registry-control supervisors. You approve ordinary asset entries, reconciliation clearance and service-process changes within delegated accounting policy. Entity controllers and the capital controller retain material judgement, policy exceptions and impairment decisions. Custody owners authorise physical records; disposal and capital-investment commitments require designated operating or executive approval. The remit excludes engineering qualification, independent asset valuation and unapproved disposal execution. Clear authority should let the service resolve ordinary records promptly while protecting the distinction between a complete accounting entry and an unresolved physical or professional decision.

The opening agenda should create an explainable asset-event trail, accountable staging balances and retirement records that show what was authorised and what occurred. Noida is the onsite base, with local asset-location engagement and remote overseas controller reviews. Continuing leadership includes building supervisors who can question inconsistent dates, ownership and evidence without reconstructing every case personally. The centre's quality should be visible in valid accounting and owned residual conditions, not merely in a register that agrees to the general ledger because unidentified assets or disposal differences have been netted into an adjustment.

What you will own

• Establish lifecycle event evidence for asset additions and retirements, separating invoice, custody, readiness and accounting dates so the register records a supported financial action rather than an assumed physical condition.
• Decide service priorities for staging and unresolved retirement balances using the underlying event and exposure, identifying cases that need custody clarification or controller judgement instead of treating all ageing as processing delay.
• Approve ordinary asset journals and reconciliation clearance within policy through retained authorisation evidence, refusing adjustments whose purpose is only to align an unexplained register total with the general ledger.
• Set transfer-accounting controls that distinguish location change from entity ownership change, requiring the relevant approved records before a custody movement creates an unsupported financial disposal or addition.
• Build retirement and disposal evidence checks with authorised operating owners, keeping accounting completion separate from approval and proof of the actual physical or contractual event.
• Develop asset-accounting supervisors through worked date, ownership and recognition cases, improving their ability to resolve routine records and escalate technical, valuation or policy uncertainty precisely.
• Present capital-accounting service quality to controllers through lifecycle traceability and residual conditions, explaining what remains unsupported without claiming that a balanced ledger proves the assets' existence, condition or value independently.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate fixed-asset or capital-accounting responsibility within an R2R, GCC or shared-services organisation. Describe a case where the ledger agreed but lifecycle evidence did not support the recorded addition, transfer or retirement. Explain the dates, ownership and approvals you examined, the action you changed and the professional or operating decision you correctly left outside the service team's authority.
• Show 18–22 years in accounting or finance-service delivery with senior-manager scope and substantial general-ledger governance. CMA, relevant accounting qualifications or equivalent rigorous practice should support your understanding of asset recognition and reconciliation. The role requires leadership of a specialist service team, not a claim to independent valuation or engineering competence, and must preserve material controller decisions while improving routine evidence quality.
• Evidence practical judgement over staging balances, authorised disposals and asset transfers whose physical and financial events occurred differently. Explain how you avoided using an adjustment to conceal missing custody or readiness evidence. Process and project-management capability are useful when they make source ownership and review repeatable; they do not replace the approved technical facts or accounting policy needed for a valid entry.
• Demonstrate coaching of accountants and collaboration with procurement, custody owners and controllers under close pressure. You should have established clear event identifiers or evidence routes without overwriting source history, and developed deputies who could recognise unresolved conditions independently. Onsite engagement, secure asset and entity information, and candid residual reporting are necessary to a continuing associate-director function that supports reliable capital records across changing operating locations.

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 11 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-PER-2026-IND-164.