GCC Regional Finance Stabilisation Director

The mandate

An interim director is required to close a GCC regional finance leadership gap while permanent appointment proceeds. Forecasts, cash visibility, close escalations and market decisions need one accountable regional cadence. The appointee must stabilise finance without absorbing country statutory ownership or becoming the lasting approval route.

Within ten working days, the director will validate critical close calendars, cash dependencies, forecast risks, senior vacancies and unresolved regional decisions. Temporary authority covers review sequence, recovery resources, evidence thresholds and escalation within existing delegation. The director may hold an unsupported regional submission but cannot sign for a country without formal authority.

The first 90 days will stabilise performance and controllership rhythms, reconcile priority exposure and identify decisions trapped between country and group owners. Months four through six will remove repeated exceptions, strengthen market finance challenge and establish deputy coverage for high-risk periods.

Recovery will distinguish a market whose assumptions genuinely changed from one that repeatedly reshapes evidence. Material deviations require an original-to-current bridge, accountable operating response, cash consequence and judgement date. Revised forecasts cannot replace accountability for execution.

Excluded are statutory signing outside appointment, banking mandate changes, accounting policy beyond delegation, permanent organisation decisions and external representation. These dependencies must be assigned and tracked, not informally taken over by the interim leader.

Transition begins in month six. Handover is accepted when the successor and deputy independently chair a full regional review, reproduce the exposure and cash view, decide the next escalation sequence and own one representative close. Extension cannot broaden the stabilisation scope.

The successor will receive a delegated-decision history showing why temporary priorities were chosen, which country leaders accepted continuing action and where formal authority still sits. The sponsor will witness the live review and record any remaining coaching need. A document transfer without independent judgement and owner response will not meet acceptance.

What you will own

• Establish a GCC finance control room for material performance, close, cash and decision exposure.
• Validate country submissions through common evidence without erasing legitimate local drivers.
• Sequence temporary recovery resources and raise evidence requirements within delegated authority.
• Resolve orphaned regional decisions through named ownership and consequence-led deadlines.
• Stabilise cash and working-capital visibility across country-to-regional handoffs.
• Reduce recurring close exceptions and unsupported forecast overlays.
• Build deputy coverage and transfer escalation relationships away from the interim appointee.
• Complete a live-cycle successor acceptance test before departure.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate interim regional finance leadership across several GCC markets.
• Show how you created one risk view from inconsistent country reporting.
• Provide an example of a temporary decision made without overstepping statutory authority.
• Bring breadth across performance, controllership, cash and senior stakeholder escalation.
• Evidence reduction of recurring exceptions rather than repeated intervention.
• Describe successor acceptance proven through an independently led regional cycle.

Working terms and boundaries

• Eight months at five days a week requires on-site leadership and scheduled regional travel.
• Temporary authority covers finance cadence, evidence and recovery sequence under documented delegation.
• Unassigned signing, bank authority, policy, permanent organisation and external representation are excluded.
• Successor and deputy must pass the stated live-cycle acceptance condition.
• A five-week maximum extension is solely for that transition.

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 RHF-INT-2026-DXB-92.