Middle East Working Capital Council Advisory Director

The mandate

The adviser will help a Middle East finance council distinguish sustainable working-capital release from timing shifts, transferred risk and duplicate claims. The standing question is how country, commercial, supply, procurement and treasury leaders should choose interventions when each sees only part of the cash chain.

Three days each week will cover a fortnightly operating clinic, analytical challenge and one monthly regional council. The adviser will connect receivables, payables and inventory drivers to treasury cash bridges, while ensuring local facts and customer or supplier consequences remain visible.

Recommendations will test permanence, reversibility, control, capacity and counterparty effect. Benefits must identify the operating action that caused cash movement and may not be repeated across collection, inventory and treasury reporting. Advice will highlight choices whose headline cash creates later service or margin exposure.

There is no line authority, transaction power or right to alter customer, supplier, purchasing or inventory terms. Management owns action and risk acceptance. Relationships with financing, collection, procurement or working-capital providers require disclosure throughout the appointment.

By month eight, the council should operate a common value ledger, decision thresholds and owner-led review. The adviser will leave an independent sustainability opinion and explicitly identify benefits that remain unproven.

The value ledger will be sampled after reporting to confirm that claimed cash remains available and compensating harm has not emerged. The adviser will teach the secretariat to trace actions into bank movement, balance change and operating counter-metrics. Customer, supplier or availability risk must be accepted visibly by an authorised executive.

Country owners will present one completed case from operational action through realised cash and one case that failed to deliver. The contrast will reveal whether baselines, causality and counter-metrics are understood. Advice will specify how unsuccessful initiatives leave the ledger so an old opportunity cannot return under a new label.

Recommendations will also identify where incentive or target design encourages short-lived cash actions. The adviser cannot change remuneration, but can show the behavioural consequence and place the decision with the authorised executive.

What you will own

• Build a regional driver tree from operating actions to balance and cash movement.
• Establish one benefit ledger with baseline, mechanism, owner, timing and reversibility.
• Prevent duplicate claims across market and functional initiatives.
• Introduce counter-metrics for customer, supplier, availability, margin and control harm.
• Recommend sequencing based on sustainable cash and execution capacity.
• Challenge timing-only actions before executive reporting.
• Coach country owners to reconcile outcomes to treasury evidence.
• Deliver a final sustainability view without approving commercial or treasury actions.

Candidate qualifications

• Show enterprise working-capital leadership across several Middle East markets.
• Provide a benefit claim you rejected as timing-only or duplicated.
• Demonstrate fluency across receivables, inventory, payables and cash bridges.
• Evidence influence over commercial and operations leaders without line control.
• Describe a counter-metric that prevented cash action from damaging enterprise value.
• Disclose provider or financing interests relevant to this advice.

Working terms and boundaries

• The retainer covers three days a week, fortnightly clinic, monthly council and agreed analysis.
• Additional negotiations, execution or travel require a separate written agreement.
• The adviser has no line authority and cannot change terms, direct teams or move cash.
• Management owns data, execution, accounting and risk acceptance.
• Relevant provider conflicts are continuing disclosure obligations.

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 RHF-ADV-2026-RUH-93.