Ring-Fenced Project Liquidity and Contingent Exposure — Consulting Principal

The mandate

Project cash and contingent support are summarised through schedules that do not reveal which balances can actually be used or when obligations may crystallise. The consulting assignment will create a challenge-ready liquidity and exposure package. It does not include raising debt, negotiating concessions or issuing a legal opinion on enforceability.

The named deliverable is a Ring-Fenced Liquidity and Contingent Exposure Decision Book with cash restriction maps, support registers, trigger logic and coherent downside scenarios. Each classification must cite an authorised source or specialist interpretation. The book must separate accounting recognition, contractual exposure and funding availability rather than present a single net figure that obscures their different timing.

The six-month work programme opens on 19 October 2026. Milestone one on 18 December 2026 supplies the restriction baseline and exposure sample; milestone two on 18 February 2027 delivers scenario and trigger modules; milestone three on 18 April 2027 closes with fresh-case validation, internal walkthrough and the complete decision book. Billing follows 25%, 35% and 40% accepted stages.

The group CFO and project finance sponsor jointly accept the work. They must trace sampled restrictions and support conditions to approved evidence, reproduce downside cash and identify the owner of each trigger. Final acceptance requires internal treasury staff to apply the method to a newly supplied project event without consultant interpretation or unsupported netting of obligations.

The sponsor provides facility and support references, authorised cash extracts, approved project forecasts and access to legal and treasury reviewers. Sensitive terms are restricted to permitted users. Financing execution, fairness valuation, transaction origination and historical accounting restatement are excluded; additional evidence reconstruction or new project scope requires signed change control and revised tests.

What you will own

• Catalogue project cash restrictions with source references and authorised interpretation, distinguishing operationally available balances from funds that cannot support group allocations despite their reported accounting presence.
• Build the contingent support register by obligation, trigger, approver and timing, preventing guarantees or commitments from disappearing through informal netting against expected future project proceeds.
• Reconcile project and group liquidity scenarios under coherent assumptions, identifying where several projects rely on the same funding source or incompatible availability conditions.
• Define trigger-based review rules with treasury and legal owners, ensuring the consultant's financial classification does not substitute for an authorised opinion on enforceability or approval authority.
• Test the scenario modules on adverse project events, recording assumptions that fail and the resulting decision options rather than merely presenting one central forecast with percentage sensitivities.
• Validate internal treasury users on a fresh restriction or support case, observing whether they preserve source evidence and escalate uncertain interpretation to the proper specialist.
• Deliver the accepted decision book, update guide and residual-dependency log, with financing execution and unapproved changes explicitly separated from the completed evidence and scenario design.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate senior infrastructure treasury, project finance or group CFO work connecting ring-fenced balances and contingent support to a decision. Provide a redacted restriction case and identify your personal conclusion and specialist reliance. Debt raising success alone does not establish the classification and downside discipline required for this consulting project.
• Show technical understanding of facility conditions, support triggers, cash forecasting and accounting-versus-contractual exposure. Explain a schedule whose net presentation hid a material funding consequence. Candidates must recognise the limits of financial interpretation, preserve legal advice accurately and avoid claiming that every contingent amount is equally immediate or equally available for offset.
• Provide reproducible scenario delivery with controlled source documents, explicit assumptions and a test that failed under new evidence. Describe how reviewers challenged the result and how the method changed. The deliverable must remain maintainable internally; an impressive board presentation without source lineage or trigger ownership will not meet acceptance.
• Establish thirty years of relevant experience and objective project governance across CFO, treasury, project and legal stakeholders. Disclose creditor, bidder or transaction-linked interests, and avoid contingent financing remuneration. Show a completed handover with uncertainties retained honestly rather than eliminated by judgement unsupported by the authorised evidence or the agreed 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 13 October 2026. Mandate reference PCT-CON-2026-IND-29.