Interim Group Chief Financial Officer — Multi-Country BPM Operating Launch

The mandate

Three new BPM entities have entered their operating launch but have not yet completed their first local reporting and payroll cycles, and the group finance seat needs an executive holder through that period. Bank access, cash approvals and reporting calendars exist, yet their operation has not been tested together. The interim group chief will hold live finance authority across this three-country launch perimeter, ensuring that staff and contractual obligations are funded lawfully and that local managers know which decisions they can make without improvised executive clearance.

Coverage begins on 26 October 2026 for nine months at five days weekly, with a permanent CFO search already proceeding. Written board approval is necessary for any extension, and the combined appointment cannot exceed 24 months. The successor will inherit three completed local reporting cycles, verified bank and payment delegations, and a tested funding routine covering the next quarter's obligations. Travel to launch locations is planned around control testing and induction rather than continuous overseas presence.

The interim may release approved operating funding, assign finance responsibilities and approve supported expenditure within the existing launch budget. New external debt, changed shareholder capital commitments and transfers whose legal or tax basis is unresolved require board approval and qualified advice. Country payroll and statutory specialists retain local interpretation. Technology controls bank-access implementation; the CFO owns the finance authorisation design and verifies that it works without one person being able to prepare, approve and execute the same material payment.

Twenty-four staff report through three local managers. The assignment excludes opening additional countries, changing the client-service model and negotiating a new shareholder transaction. Its success is not simply that the launch avoids a missed payroll. The board needs demonstrable local ownership of finance routines, reconciled intercompany movements and clear residual issue escalation. Handover is complete when the permanent chief can run the funding review from retained records and local managers can execute their responsibilities without depending on launch consultants.

What you will own

• Establish the immediate obligation calendar across all launch entities, reconciling payroll, statutory payments and committed supplier costs to available cash and approved funding sources before promises are made on expected future receipts.
• Decide the sequence of funded launch expenditure within board-approved limits, preserving mandatory obligations and recording which discretionary commitments must wait when local requests exceed usable group resources.
• Verify bank and payment authority with technology and local managers, testing preparation, approval and execution separation through actual controlled transactions rather than accepting access spreadsheets as proof of effective operation.
• Lead the first complete entity closes with local advisers, resolving supported accounting exceptions and preserving questions that need jurisdiction-specific interpretation instead of forcing identical treatment across different legal obligations.
• Govern intercompany cash movements through documented purpose, approval and reciprocal accounting evidence, escalating proposed transfers where unresolved legal or tax conditions prevent responsible execution under the existing delegation.
• Report launch finance readiness to directors using tested routines and unresolved exposure, distinguishing a control that has operated successfully from one that merely exists in a launch checklist or consultancy presentation.
• Transfer the live finance perimeter through successor-led funding and close reviews, ensuring each local manager demonstrates their authority, recurring obligations and escalation route before interim executive coverage ends.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate at least 28 years in finance with prior CFO or senior executive responsibility in BPM, fintech, logistics or another internationally operated service business. Show personal ownership of funding, reporting and financial control during an operating transition or multi-entity expansion. Comparable live finance accountability is relevant; merely designing a launch plan without holding responsibility for its operation will not establish readiness.
• Bring practical command of bank delegations, payroll funding, local-close coordination and intercompany reconciliation. Describe how you detected a gap between documented access and actual payment control. Finance training or equivalent substantial executive competence is necessary, along with judgement about when local accounting, tax or employment specialists must provide the authoritative interpretation for the country concerned.
• Have managed cash priorities under competing local demands and communicated limitations to directors clearly. Evidence should show how you distinguished mandatory obligations from discretionary expansion spending, and how you prevented an apparent solution in one country from creating an unsupported transfer or cash shortfall elsewhere. Funding experience must include implementation controls, not only negotiation of headline financing terms.
• Be available for the stated five-day commitment and planned international travel, subject to appropriate working permissions. Provide a handover example in which local managers and the incoming chief could operate without your personal approval of every ordinary decision. The appointment requires candid disclosure of remaining launch weaknesses, reliable documentation and the ability to maintain calm executive authority while a permanent search continues separately.

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 13 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-INT-2026-IND-222.