Cash Accounting Operations Recovery Director

The mandate

Finance needs an interim leader to restore reliable cash accounting while permanent ownership is recruited. Bank-to-ledger breaks, unidentified receipts, settlement timing and manual cash entries are being handled through several local routines, weakening the view of available cash and leaving aged balances without decisive ownership. Treasury execution continues; accounting integrity requires a single recovery command.

In the first ten working days, the director will protect daily cash positioning inputs, reconcile material bank populations to the ledger and establish a risk-ranked register for unidentified, duplicated, stale or manually posted items. The role may reassign accounting recovery work, impose temporary review requirements and hold an unsupported cash journal within documented authority.

The first quarter must resolve the oldest and most consequential differences while revealing their source. A cleared suspense balance is not success if the offset moves into another unresolved account. The director will require end-to-end evidence through initiation, bank settlement, statement receipt, posting, allocation and reconciliation, with distinct paths for timing and genuine exception.

Months four through eight will standardise cut-offs, evidence and owner responses, reduce manual intervention and prove stable reconciliation over multiple cycles. The director cannot initiate treasury deals, change bank mandates, administer access, approve accounting policy or sign financial representations. Those decisions remain visible dependencies owned by authorised leaders.

Handover begins by month eight. The permanent owner and deputy will receive the cash-accounting calendar, reconciled residual population, control history, decision log, counterparty and interface dependencies, and a 90-day plan. Any extension is solely for this transition and cannot expand into a treasury transformation programme.

What you will own

• Reconcile material cash accounts and establish one population of unidentified, duplicated, stale, timing and manual-posting exceptions.
• Protect daily cash-information continuity while distinguishing treasury-positioning issues from accounting and statement-interface defects.
• Apply temporary review and evidence standards to cash journals and clearing activity within existing delegation.
• Prevent suspense clearance through unsupported transfer by requiring traceability to ultimate accounting disposition.
• Resolve aged items by consequence and cause, with named actions for bank, interface, treasury and finance owners.
• Establish consistent bank cut-offs, statement completeness checks, allocation rules and reconciliation evidence.
• Demonstrate sustained control across at least three representative accounting cycles before exiting recovery status.
• Complete permanent-owner and deputy handover with residual risk and unresolved decisions explicitly preserved.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate interim recovery of cash accounting involving bank reconciliation, settlement, suspense and ledger interfaces.
• Show an example where reported suspense clearance merely moved an unresolved balance and how you exposed it.
• Bring strong separation of treasury execution, cash positioning, accounting, access and reconciliation responsibilities.
• Provide evidence of controlling manual cash journals under close or liquidity pressure.
• Describe root-cause correction across banks, interfaces and finance owners rather than repeated accounting cleanup.
• Evidence on-site command, discretion with bank information and adherence to delegated authority.
• Show an early successor transition that did not conceal complex residual balances or dependencies.

Working terms and boundaries

• The interim appointment is ten months at five days a week, with on-site attendance aligned to daily cash and close requirements.
• Temporary finance work allocation and journal-review conditions remain inside documented delegation.
• Treasury transactions, bank mandates, access administration, accounting policy and external representation are excluded.
• Handover begins by month eight and includes a permanent owner, deputy and evidenced residual-balance view.
• A six-week maximum extension may be approved only for incomplete successor transition.

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 FNA-INT-2026-RUH-23.