Planning Hierarchy and Master-Data Remediation Director

The mandate

This project will repair the planning hierarchies and governance rules that prevent consistent aggregation, comparison and historical analysis. It is not an enterprise data-cleaning programme. Scope covers the canonical finance design, mapping of priority structures, controlled pilot and ownership model needed to support planning decisions.

Five deliverables are contracted: hierarchy inventory, canonical design principles, effective-dated mapping and exception register, pilot reconciliation, and governance-and-transfer handbook. The consultant must preserve legitimate alternative views while establishing which hierarchy is authoritative for each planning purpose and date.

Milestones occur at weeks three, seven, twelve, seventeen and twenty. The Sponsor accepts inventory and design; a finance control owner accepts mappings and pilot; the governance forum accepts transfer. Acceptance requires complete priority mapping, historical reproducibility, reconciliation within tolerance, documented exceptions and internal execution of one change request.

The client will provide approved structure extracts, current reporting and planning definitions, reorganisation decisions, named owners and controlled financial samples. The consultant will not alter source records or infer organisational meaning from labels alone. Missing ownership or effective dates enter dependency control and constrain acceptance.

What you will own

• Inventory planning hierarchies by purpose, grain, source, owner, effective date and downstream financial use.
• Identify conflicting parentage, orphan nodes, duplicate codes, retroactive changes and local structures without controlled mappings.
• Define canonical principles for authoritative view, alternate rollups, historical restatement, effective dating and retirement.
• Map priority structures with explicit one-to-many treatment, residual exceptions and reconciliation to approved totals.
• Build a pilot spanning current and historical periods to prove aggregation and comparability through a structural change.
• Establish change-request evidence, impact analysis, approval, testing, deployment and rollback requirements.
• Create an exception register showing owner, compensating control, financial effect, expiry and remediation path.
• Transfer governance through an internal owner-led change executed, tested and reconciled without consultant intervention.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 14 years in FP&A, finance master data, consolidation structures or planning governance at Director level.
• Evidence of repairing planning hierarchies while preserving both current decision views and historical comparability.
• Expertise in effective dating, alternate rollups, mapping, allocation consequences, reconciliation and change control.
• A case where an apparently simple hierarchy change altered financial interpretation and how you contained it.
• Experience refusing to infer structural meaning without accountable-owner evidence.
• Ability to scope priority remediation tightly rather than allowing a planning project to become enterprise-wide data cleansing.
• Demonstrated transfer through internal processing and testing of a live structure change.

Working terms and boundaries

• The five-month project is delivered three days a week, with Bucharest travel around design, pilot and transfer milestones.
• Scope covers canonical planning design, priority mappings, pilot and governance; source-system cleansing and production deployment are excluded.
• The consultant may recommend hierarchy treatment but cannot approve organisational structure or change source ownership.
• Approved extracts, definitions, decisions, owners and samples are mandatory client inputs managed through dependency control.
• Final acceptance requires reconciled current and historical views plus one independently executed internal change request.

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 8 October 2026. Mandate reference FPA-CON-2026-BUC-52.