Principal EPC Contract Change Financial Evidence Lead

The mandate

An EPC commercial-finance team cannot consistently distinguish costs belonging to the original contract from costs attributed to requested changes. Approval to proceed, agreed scope and price agreement are recorded in different files, while project forecasts assume recovery without a common evidence standard. The Principal EPC Contract Change Financial Evidence Lead will deliver a tested financial method for two selected contract populations, preserving the factual and approval distinctions on which management decisions depend.

The project begins on 26 October 2026 for five months, with four days each week reserved for document review, cost reconciliation and owner testing. Its artifacts are a change-cost evidence book, an approval-state specification and a recovery-assumption reconciliation. Legal specialists supply contractual conclusions, and controllers own accounting treatment. The consultant neither establishes legal entitlement nor rebuilds the entire cost-to-complete process or negotiates a customer claim.

The diagnostic milestone on 30 November 2026 provides the selected change population, base-work boundaries and quantified source gaps. On 12 February 2027, the second milestone delivers the reconciled cost method and worked approval-state tests. Final acceptance on 26 March 2027 includes two internally operated review cycles, an unresolved-evidence file and maintenance instructions extending across the full engagement term.

The Commercial Finance Head and Group Controller jointly accept each artifact. Tests must reconcile sampled costs to authorised project records, distinguish duplicate base and change attribution and show how a changed approval fact affects the recorded recovery assumption. An internal analyst must reproduce selected cases without consultant repair. Sponsors supply contracts, approved scope records, instructions, customer correspondence, cost extracts and six contributors, with access to qualified contract and legal owners.

Accepted milestones release 30%, 35% and 35% of the fee. Payment is unrelated to claim settlement, customer agreement or collection. Broader contract populations, historical remediation and new system functionality require signed commercial change control; litigation support, accounting-policy selection and authority negotiations are excluded. A successful method makes unsupported recovery visible while leaving the appropriate management or specialist owner to determine what action follows.

What you will own

• Define the two-contract review perimeter and change population, reconciling project, instruction and customer records so the diagnostic identifies omissions and exclusions before a financial recovery view is constructed.
• Establish base-work and change-cost attribution rules from approved scope evidence, detecting costs counted in both populations without independently deciding contractual entitlement or technical responsibility for the work.
• Build the approval-state specification distinguishing instruction, scope acceptance and agreed price, testing whether management's recovery assumption changes appropriately when only one of those facts is established.
• Reconcile sampled material, labour and subcontract costs to project records, preserving the original source and documenting allocation judgement rather than forcing all expenditure into the most favourable recovery category.
• Develop worked financial cases for disputed scope, partial approvals and superseded instructions, exposing which fact or specialist conclusion is required before the internal owner can accept the proposed treatment.
• Run two owner-led review cycles and repair failed evidence tests, demonstrating that analysts can identify unsupported recovery and route the issue without relying on hidden consultant interpretation.
• Transfer the evidence book and maintenance rules with clear source-change triggers, leaving financial analysis reproducible while customer negotiations, accounting approvals and legal conclusions remain with authorised owners.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate substantial EPC or infrastructure commercial-finance experience with contract changes, cost evidence or related project-control responsibilities. Describe a recovery assumption you challenged because its approval state or cost attribution was unsupported, the records inspected and the financial decision influenced. The role requires personally evidenced reconciliation and judgement rather than participation in a claim submitted and negotiated entirely by others.
• Bring detailed understanding of project cost records and the distinction between base scope, instructed additions and agreed commercial recovery. Relevant proof should identify double counting, allocation judgement and incomplete approvals without presuming that incurred cost creates enforceable entitlement. Explain how you obtained contract or legal conclusions from the responsible specialists and reflected their limits accurately in the financial evidence.
• Show rigorous consulting test and acceptance discipline, including reconciled populations, unfamiliar cases and owner-operated review. Describe a classification or attribution method that failed when used on a new scenario, how you corrected the guidance and what evidence established that the internal analyst could apply it independently. A well-written evidence book must be practical enough to survive changing instruction and approval facts.
• Establish principal-level facilitation between project, commercial and accounting owners, with four-day weekly capacity over five months. You must maintain scope when live negotiations create pressure for wider support and preserve confidential customer records. Provide a boundary or change-control decision you made, the sponsors who accepted it and how the final transfer left unresolved recovery questions visible without making project completion depend on their settlement.

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 CVU-CON-2026-IND-073.