ERP Finance Cutover Recovery Director

The mandate

Finance requires an interim executive to stabilise control and operating reliability following an enterprise finance cutover. The immediate leadership gap sits between project closure and sustainable finance ownership. The appointee must establish one evidenced operating position without becoming a substitute for technology or accounting owners.

Within five working days, the director will create a finance recovery command structure covering critical close, cash, payables, receivables and reporting dependencies. Within 20 days, all material workarounds and defects must have a finance consequence, control owner, containment, resolution route and exit test. Unsupported optimism is as dangerous as indiscriminate severity; triage must be tied to actual financial exposure.

The director can set recovery priorities, assign finance-side resources, require evidence before closing an issue and recommend that a reporting or payment process remain under heightened control. Formal accounting conclusions, technical releases, access approvals and external representations stay with their designated owners. The interim leader will make those dependencies explicit and force timely decisions where authority sits elsewhere.

Months two through five focus on exiting manual controls, reconciling migrated positions, restoring normal close ownership and proving stability over repeated cycles. The recovery cannot be declared complete because ticket counts decline. Each critical process needs an accepted exit criterion, operating owner and evidence that the workaround can be removed without reopening the risk.

From month five, the director will transfer the recovery portfolio and remaining decisions to a permanent executive and trained deputies. The final pack must include reconciled issue status, control history, unresolved accounting decisions, ownership, residual risk and a 90-day plan. The appointment excludes leading a fresh implementation or redesigning the underlying platform.

What you will own

• Establish a single finance recovery register that links every critical defect or workaround to financial exposure, control containment and accountable resolution.
• Prioritise close, payment, cash and reporting continuity using evidenced consequence rather than project severity labels alone.
• Require reconciliation and control proof before accepting closure of finance-impacting issues, even where a technical fix is reported complete.
• Create temporary operating instructions for material workarounds, including access, review, evidence retention and expiry conditions.
• Drive decisions on migrated balances and data exceptions to the appropriate accounting owner without making unauthorised policy judgements.
• Demonstrate stable operation across at least two close cycles before recommending exit from enhanced recovery governance.
• Remove temporary controls only after documented exit tests and named process-owner acceptance.
• Hand over the residual portfolio, decision record and successor priorities without extending the remit into a new implementation.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate executive leadership of a finance cutover recovery involving close, data, controls and operational continuity.
• Show how you converted technical defect reporting into a finance-exposure hierarchy that changed recovery sequencing.
• Provide an example of refusing issue closure until reconciliation or control evidence was complete, and explain the outcome.
• Bring command of migrated balance validation, manual workaround governance, close dependencies and cross-functional escalation.
• Evidence rapid on-site leadership without blurring finance, technology, accounting-policy and access-control ownership.
• Describe a recovery exit that was proven through live cycles rather than inferred from declining ticket volume.
• Show a disciplined permanent handover completed while difficult residual issues and executive choices remained visible.

Working terms and boundaries

• The appointment runs seven months at five days a week, with on-site presence required through critical recovery and close periods.
• Authority covers finance recovery priority, resource sequencing, evidence standards and recommendations on heightened control status.
• Technology release, accounting-policy approval, access administration and external financial representation are excluded.
• A handover-only extension of up to six weeks requires explicit approval and cannot expand into reimplementation or platform redesign.
• Permanent-owner transition begins by month five and is measured through accepted responsibilities, deputies and a residual-risk record.

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 12 October 2026. Mandate reference FNA-INT-2026-CHI-11.