Vice President Capital Markets — Automotive Borrower Maturity and Market Access

The mandate

An automotive manufacturing group has several borrowing entities whose facilities mature around overlapping product-investment periods. Individual financing teams can renew their own lines, but the resulting group schedule concentrates refinancing exposure and assumes that every borrower will retain access to its preferred market. The VP Capital Markets will own the financing alternatives and borrower-level maturity architecture, making the cost of resilience visible before funding decisions become urgent.

The position is open-ended employment with an eighteen-month opening agenda to reconstruct debt capacity, diversify maturity choices and establish repeatable financing reviews. Fourteen specialists support five borrower entities. Pune is the hybrid leadership base, with planned lender meetings and selected international market discussions. The VP needs direct access to business cash assumptions and finance owners; a complete debt spreadsheet is not enough if it omits the operating commitments that determine when refinancing flexibility matters.

The financial analysis must distinguish undrawn commitment, conditional access and a financing option that has not yet been approved or negotiated. Comparisons will cover tenor, borrower eligibility, security, covenants, execution dependencies and total financing cost under consistent operating scenarios. A cheaper short-duration facility may create an unacceptable concentration, while an apparently flexible alternative can restrict assets or distributions needed elsewhere. Those differences belong in the recommendation, not only in the closing documentation.

Within approved funding policy, the VP leads negotiations, sets workstream priorities and executes transactions expressly authorised through delegation. Directors retain approval of material new debt, guarantees, security commitments and capital-structure changes. Legal advisers confirm enforceable terms; accounting and tax specialists determine their own treatments. The capital markets function owns the supported financial comparison and execution plan, without independently certifying legal capacity or promising that a particular market remains open.

The role excludes daily payment operations, unrelated acquisitions and an enterprise-wide redesign of product investment. Business leaders still decide approved operating priorities and the CFO owns the consolidated finance position. Capital markets must show how those priorities interact with accessible debt capacity, including a defensible fallback if one borrower or market cannot deliver the expected funding. The enduring result is a team that revisits options early enough to preserve choices rather than reporting a refinancing success achieved only after alternatives have disappeared.

What you will own

• Establish the borrower maturity book by reconciling contractual debt terms, authorised investment commitments and business cash assumptions, identifying concentrations that are invisible in isolated entity refinancing plans.
• Construct comparable financing alternatives across lenders and instruments, separating committed access from conditional proposals and documenting tenor, security, covenant and execution consequences for each eligible borrower.
• Recommend maturity and market diversification with downside access scenarios, quantifying the additional cost of preserving alternatives rather than assuming that lowest headline interest expense defines the strongest funding decision.
• Lead authorised financing negotiations with clear borrower conditions, obtaining specialist term validation and escalating commitments that would alter group security, guarantees or capital structure beyond delegated authority.
• Govern financing readiness gates through internal owners, checking approved documents, financial evidence and decision dependencies before an intended transaction enters the group's executable funding plan.
• Present finance committee choices with explicit fallback routes, showing which operating commitments remain supportable if a market closes or a borrower loses access to its preferred facility.
• Develop financing specialists who can defend the assumptions behind their recommendations, preserve transaction records and update alternatives when actual business cash requirements diverge from the original maturity plan.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate a funding choice where tenor, borrower access or covenant flexibility outweighed the apparent cheapest option. Explain the alternatives, personal negotiation responsibility and approval route. Automotive treasury or comparable capital-intensive manufacturing evidence should establish how investment timing and debt capacity interacted; arranging a facility without understanding the operating commitments it funded will not establish the judgement needed here.
• Bring an 18–22-year finance career with director-level or comparable responsibility in capital markets, treasury or senior automotive finance. Evidence must include personally defended borrowing recommendations and meaningful stakeholder leadership. Rigorous financial training or equivalent proven technical competence is expected, with the ability to work effectively alongside legal, tax and accounting professionals rather than claiming their conclusions as treasury's independent assurance.
• Show reliable command of maturity concentration, borrower eligibility, security and downside financing access. Describe an option that looked available in a group summary but was unusable for the entity or timing that needed it. Candidates must make conditional assumptions visible, compare financing costs consistently and preserve a fallback that does not rely on unsupported transfers or hypothetical approvals.
• Have led specialists and entity finance counterparts through contested funding priorities, including clear communication to a CFO or finance committee. Explain how you revised an execution plan after an operating assumption changed and kept the decision trail usable. The VP must build durable analytical and negotiation capability, not make group financing depend on personal lender relationships that colleagues cannot maintain or test.

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 CVU-PER-2026-IND-266.