Interim Infrastructure Finance Chief — Completion Obligation Control

The mandate

Several energy projects are entering completion and financial closeout and need a senior finance decision-maker. Construction is substantially progressed, but remaining supplier obligations, customer retention, approved remedial work and unresolved commercial matters still require senior finance decisions. An interim chief will start on 26 October 2026 for nine months, ending on 26 July 2027 with no extension. A permanent finance-chief search is already approved and will run during the cover, so residual project exposure transfers to an enduring owner rather than disappearing with the temporary appointment.

Completion must not be treated as a single financial event. Technical acceptance, completion of remedial obligations, supplier settlement, retention eligibility and contract closure can occur on different dates. The interim will connect the authorised operating and commercial evidence to what remains payable, collectible or uncertain. Technical leaders certify completion and required works; commercial and legal owners determine entitlement and settlement positions. Finance must distinguish a known remaining obligation from a contingent claim or disputed amount. Neither a site-progress statement nor an expected customer release can justify prematurely clearing the residual project exposure.

Twenty-two professionals report through project accounting, planning and business-finance leads. You approve ordinary remaining-cost plans and payments within delegated policy, require evidenced closeout readiness and escalate unsupported release assumptions. The managing director and group CFO reserve material settlements, new funding and accounting exceptions; the board retains litigation strategy and commitments beyond authority. The remit excludes technical completion certification, legal negotiation of disputed claims and unapproved project restructuring. Finance can withhold its closeout concurrence when support is incomplete, but cannot require the operating team to declare safe or contractual completion simply to meet a financial timetable.

Handover requires an accepted residual-obligation record for every covered project, reconciled remaining-cost and retention positions, named decision owners and two successive monthly reviews that update changes without losing prior assumptions. The permanent successor must then lead a completion-finance review and trace sampled payment or release decisions without the interim's assistance. Mumbai is the onsite base with planned site reviews. The cover ends when the enduring owner can maintain that control and explain what remains open; it does not depend on forcing every disputed claim to settle or every retention balance to be collected within nine months.

What you will own

• Establish a remaining-obligation record for each completion project, connecting authorised work, supplier commitments and customer conditions so financial closeout does not erase exposure merely because delivery progress is high.
• Decide ordinary completion-finance priorities within delegation through supported payable and collectible positions, separating known remaining costs from disputed matters that need commercial, legal or accounting approval.
• Require finance closeout concurrence through reconciled evidence of obligations and residual actions, refusing premature clearance while preserving the technical team's exclusive responsibility for completion and safety certification.
• Set retention and release reviews with commercial owners, identifying the contractual condition and accepted evidence needed before an expected collection becomes an approved finance assumption or residual balance clearance.
• Govern changes to remaining-cost plans through retained prior assumptions and authorised new facts, distinguishing completed work, newly identified remedial obligations and uncertainty that cannot yet be resolved financially.
• Develop project-finance deputies in completion judgement and residual ownership, ensuring resource demobilisation does not leave payment, evidence or specialist decisions dependent on former delivery-team members.
• Transfer the reconciled obligation record and decision routes to the permanent chief through an independently led review and sampled trace tests, securing acceptance without making handover conditional on disputed settlements or collections.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate senior EPC, infrastructure or comparable capital-project finance leadership during completion, closeout or a substantial remaining-obligation control challenge. Describe how you distinguished technical progress from payable, collectible and unresolved financial positions. Evidence should establish personally owned finance judgement, coordination of authorised professional decisions and an accountable residual-action record that remained usable after responsibility transferred, including matters whose external settlement was still pending.
• Demonstrate readiness for temporary finance-chief authority through a 28+ year career and substantive VP, divisional finance-head or equivalent leadership. Your applied accounting or advanced finance competence must support remaining-cost, treasury and P&L judgement, including effective use of qualified accounting and legal specialists. Explain a personally owned residual-exposure decision and how you developed the team while preserving the operating and board powers outside your delegation.
• Explain a retention, remaining supplier obligation or remedial-work case where expected closure overstated financial readiness. Identify the accepted evidence, professional owner and change you made to the finance position. You should resist pressure to clear residual exposure simply because operational resources are moving away, and understand that an unresolved claim can remain visible and responsibly owned without being treated as either guaranteed recovery or an automatically settled liability.
• Be available for the 26 October start, five weekly days and purposeful completion-site travel. Show transfer to a successor who led a financial review and located supporting decisions independently, with a maintained route for unresolved matters. Secure commercial information, candid executive reporting and clear separation between a temporary leader's exit condition and uncontrollable external settlement outcomes are necessary to disciplined nine-month cover.

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-INT-2026-IND-172.