EPC Contract Cash, Claims and Risk Decision Book — Consulting Lead

The mandate

Engineering contract reviews contain cash forecasts, claim schedules and risk summaries that cannot be reconciled through one decision logic. The consultant will build a finance evidence book connecting them. The defined problem is reproducible judgement support, not legal dispute resolution, project management or a promise that reported claims will be recovered.

The deliverable is an EPC Contract Finance Decision Book with milestone cash bridges, claim-evidence classifications, liability sensitivities and retained approval maps. It must preserve the difference between a commercial expectation, a supported accounting position and an authorised legal interpretation. Uncertain recoveries remain explicit instead of being treated as cash merely because they appear in a claim register.

The project begins on 19 October 2026. Milestone one on 4 December 2026 delivers the contract-evidence baseline; milestone two on 29 January 2027 provides tested cash and claim modules; milestone three on 18 March 2027 completes fresh-case validation, internal reviewer rehearsal and the accepted book. Billing is 25%, 35% and 40% against accepted deliverables.

Acceptance belongs jointly to the commercial finance head and project controls sponsor. They must trace sampled cash and claim assumptions to evidence, reproduce the downside view and identify retained legal or accounting decisions. Final approval requires internal reviewers to classify a new contested claim correctly without consultant interpretation or unsupported recognition simply to reconcile the forecast.

The sponsor supplies approved contracts and amendments, billing records, project cost evidence and access to authorised legal and controls reviewers. Permissions are restricted and customer-sensitive records minimised. Claim negotiation, legal opinions, engineering delivery and historical restatement are excluded; substantive new record reconstruction or added contracts require signed change control with revised milestones and acceptance.

What you will own

• Catalogue contract cash, claim and liability sources with authorised owners, identifying missing amendments or unsupported assumptions before constructing the proposed engineering finance decision modules.
• Reconcile milestone billing to expected receipts and project obligations, showing working-capital timing separately from accounting margin and commercial confidence in future collection or claim settlement.
• Define claim-evidence categories with retained legal and accounting reviewers, preventing a consultant classification from substituting for authorised interpretation or material financial reporting approval.
• Construct coherent downside cases for cost, delay and collection assumptions, retaining source limitations rather than forcing uncertain project events into a single apparently precise forecast.
• Test the decision book on contested or changed-scope cases, recording inconsistent classifications and the specialist evidence required before a finance conclusion can legitimately change.
• Validate internal reviewers on a new claim and cash scenario, observing whether they preserve uncertainty and route retained decisions without relying on informal consultant judgement.
• Deliver the accepted book, source dictionary and review triggers with dispute negotiation, engineering execution and unapproved accounting changes explicitly outside the completed consulting evidence-design acceptance boundary.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate responsible contract finance, engineering commercial analysis or project-controls finance delivery with a personally built evidence artefact. Provide a redacted case where classification changed a cash or margin decision. Candidates must identify method and retained authority, rather than treating project exposure or a finance title as proof of legal or execution competence.
• Show accounting and cash judgement across milestones, estimates, claims and liabilities. Explain a recovery that remained uncertain despite a strong commercial argument. A relevant finance qualification is useful, but practical evidence must demonstrate the boundary between expected cash, accounting treatment and legal opinion, including specialist reliance recorded accurately.
• Provide reproducible analytical project work with controlled sources, dated outputs and reviewer challenge. Describe a fresh-case test that exposed a defect in the decision logic and how it was corrected. The sponsor needs an internally maintainable book, not a static risk presentation or a model balanced through unsupported claim-recognition assumptions.
• Establish senior contract-finance delivery through a reproducible cash-and-claim module, controlled confidential records and objective sponsor acceptance on a contested case. Disclose counterparty, bidder, insurer and dispute-linked interests, and avoid contingent claim-recovery remuneration. A completed handover with unresolved specialist dependencies is required; the project cannot guarantee recovery, legal enforceability or engineering performance outside its defined finance evidence scope.

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 9 October 2026. Mandate reference PCT-CON-2026-IND-33.