Group Treasurer — Mobility Components Cash Accessibility and Investment Eligibility

The mandate

A mobility-component group has cash distributed among entities with different local obligations, transfer conditions and investment arrangements. Consolidated balances appear comfortable even when a production entity faces a funding shortage that another entity's funds cannot promptly meet. The Group Treasurer will own a usable-liquidity view and the decisions governing cash location, eligible investment and approved intragroup funding, replacing the assumption that all reported group cash is economically interchangeable.

Twenty treasury professionals support eight operating entities, with finance controllers supplying verified obligations and specialist legal and tax owners confirming transfer constraints. Chennai is the hybrid base, complemented by planned entity reviews in Asia and Europe. The first two years should establish accessibility classifications, cash-pooling choices and investment eligibility controls. Employment remains open-ended, with continuing responsibility for how funds can support the group's obligations after that initial framework is embedded.

The treasury view must distinguish ownership, withdrawal conditions, currency, settlement timing and funds reserved for a specific purpose. A deposit can be an acceptable instrument yet unsuitable for the obligation expected to use it. Equally, moving funds to a central pool may reduce apparent borrowing while increasing another entity's dependency or cost. The treasurer will compare those consequences using supported scenarios and specialist-validated transfer conditions before recommending a structural cash movement.

Approved policy delegates ordinary cash investment, intragroup funding execution and treasury operating priorities to the treasurer. Changes to eligible instruments, material counterparty limits, new pooling structures or guarantees require the treasury committee and authorised directors. Qualified advisers retain legal and tax interpretation, while controllers retain accounting treatment. The function must prove that an investment satisfies approved criteria and fits the liquidity need; a favourable yield does not compensate for an unexplained access or concentration risk.

Product financing negotiations, acquisition valuation and physical supply-chain management are outside this perimeter. The treasury team does, however, need operating evidence about supplier payments, customer receipts and disruptions that change entity cash needs. Success means local finance leaders and group executives can distinguish usable resources from conditional balances, understand the cost of their chosen cash structure and revise it before an ordinary operating shock becomes an avoidable emergency borrowing request.

What you will own

• Establish a cash accessibility register linking verified balances to ownership, withdrawal conditions, intended obligations and settlement timing, with specialist-confirmed restrictions that remain visible in the consolidated liquidity view.
• Decide ordinary investment allocations inside approved policy, checking instrument eligibility, counterparty capacity and the cash requirement's horizon before placing funds whose apparent availability could otherwise mislead operating finance teams.
• Recommend pooling and intragroup funding alternatives through entity-specific evidence, comparing transfer costs and dependencies while obtaining qualified legal and tax conclusions before a structural arrangement reaches governance approval.
• Govern treasury forecasts that preserve restricted and conditional balances separately, explaining when an entity shortage persists despite group surplus and which authorised alternative can fund the obligation in time.
• Review investment and pooling performance against original liquidity purposes, identifying yield gains achieved at the expense of accessibility or new dependencies rather than assessing success solely through interest income.
• Present concentration and exception decisions to the treasury committee with supported alternatives, reserving policy changes and material limit increases for the authorised forum rather than normalising them through repeated waivers.
• Develop entity treasury managers who can maintain accessibility evidence, question unsupported transfer assumptions and operate approved funding routines without relying on the group treasurer to interpret every local balance personally.

Candidate qualifications

• Explain a situation where substantial reported cash could not meet the obligation management expected it to fund. Show how you verified ownership, access conditions and timing, and what investment or funding decision followed. Automotive or comparable manufacturing treasury experience must establish operational consequences across entities; consolidation of cash reports alone will not demonstrate readiness to own this group functional perimeter.
• Demonstrate disciplined cash investment judgement, including eligibility, counterparty concentration, liquidity horizon and the distinction between an instrument's suitability and its headline return. Provide an allocation you rejected or revised because withdrawal timing, currency or concentration did not fit the underlying obligation. You must preserve qualified specialist advice where local transfer or investment conditions exceed your own professional remit.
• A career spanning 18–22 years with director-level treasury, capital markets or comparable senior finance responsibility is expected. Evidence should include personal execution within policy and recommendations that required higher approval. Finance education or equivalent substantial technical standing should support the role; candidates must be able to defend intragroup funding assumptions without claiming authority to independently determine local legal or tax positions.
• Have led treasury professionals and entity finance counterparts through a change in cash organisation, investment practice or funding responsibilities. Explain how you retained the evidence needed to question group assumptions and developed local capability rather than extracting every decision to headquarters. Strong committee writing, clear delegation and purposeful entity engagement are necessary to sustain the accessibility framework when operating needs or authorised policy change.

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 10 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-PER-2026-IND-267.