Nordics Finance Resilience Advisory Director

The mandate

The adviser will help Nordic finance leaders determine whether critical regional outcomes can survive loss of people, access, data, service or decision authority. The standing question is not whether plans exist, but whether minimum close, cash, payment and reporting services have been exercised end to end.

Two days each week will support a fortnightly clinic, dependency review and two regional executive exercises across six months. Tests will include simultaneous market effects and unavailable shared dependencies. The adviser will challenge assumptions and recovery order while operating leaders retain response ownership.

Manual contingencies must demonstrate capacity, segregation, privacy, evidence and reconciliation back to normal operation. A recovered component is insufficient if approvers, bank routes, judgement or local statutory action remain unavailable.

The exercises will deliberately vary timing and availability rather than assume one regional incident. One scenario will remove a critical approver during close; another will combine delayed data with reduced service capacity. Observers will record decisions, accumulated work and control consequences, then owners will retest corrected plans.

There is no line authority, incident command, payment power, access right or control-waiver authority. Live incident participation is excluded unless separately agreed. Continuity or service-provider interests must be disclosed.

The final opinion will state tested capability, untested assumptions, residual risk and next exercises. It does not certify business continuity or control effectiveness.

Each finding will receive a finance owner, consequence, remediation option and retest date. The adviser will distinguish a contingency that failed outright from one that worked only through unsustainable effort, delayed evidence or exceptional access. Apparent recovery can still expose the next close once temporary resources leave.

The regional review will compare market dependencies to reveal common points of failure concealed in separate plans. Recommendations will address diversification, decision cover and minimum evidence before further resilience investment.

The adviser will leave scenario narratives, observer guidance, evidence templates and clear ownership for future exercises. These artifacts will allow different market teams to test new combinations rather than repeat the same script. Deferred actions will show the executive who accepted exposure and the event that requires reconsideration.

What you will own

• Define minimum regional finance services and tolerable interruption by consequence.
• Map shared and market dependencies across people, authority, data, access and providers.
• Design exercises that remove more than one normal dependency.
• Test manual alternatives for capacity, evidence, segregation and recovery reconciliation.
• Recommend recovery order based on finance and control consequence.
• Record management risk acceptance where remediation is deferred.
• Coach owners to maintain an evidence-led exercise cadence.
• Deliver independent advice without directing response.

Candidate qualifications

• Show finance resilience work across several Nordic or comparable markets.
• Provide a component recovery plan defeated by an end-to-end dependency.
• Demonstrate rigorous manual contingency testing.
• Evidence exercises that revealed failure rather than rehearsed success.
• Show influence without incident authority.
• Disclose relevant continuity and service-provider relationships.

Working terms and boundaries

• The retainer covers two days a week, fortnightly clinic, two exercises and agreed review.
• Extra exercises, incident response or remediation require separate scope and fee.
• The adviser has no line authority and cannot invoke plans, approve payments or waive controls.
• Management owns tests, response, remediation and risk acceptance.
• Conflicts require continuing disclosure.

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 7 October 2026. Mandate reference RHF-ADV-2026-STO-97.