Trade and Supply-Chain Finance Programme Leadership — Interim VP

The mandate

The interim will hold the programme decision seat, reconciling commercial value, operating evidence and retained bank controls. The task is not enterprise finance leadership: it concerns the working-capital products and trade instruments for which customer and counterparty commitments must remain properly authorised.

The VP assumes responsibility on 19 October 2026 for twelve months while permanent recruitment proceeds. Mumbai is the primary base, with planned domestic commercial reviews and approved remote global trade coordination. The opening phase establishes programme economics and instrument exceptions; the final quarter requires the successor to lead programme renewal and operating-risk discussions independently.

Handover must leave a clear programme register showing participation, funded flows, fee economics, documentation and retained credit conditions. The permanent VP must assess a representative receivables or discounting decision without relying on personal relationship history. Instrument and settlement exceptions remain visible with authorised owners rather than being treated as closed because the programme has produced volume.

The VP may set programme priorities, direct existing teams and approve budgeted commercial support up to ₹20 lakh. Credit limits, underwriting exceptions, legal instrument interpretation and sanctions or customer approvals remain with authorised functions. New binding programme terms and pricing outside approved bands require retained executive approval; commercial urgency does not permit finance to waive documentation.

Out of scope are treasury trading, statutory accounting sign-off and customer legal representation. The vertical will quantify working-capital value without promising credit access or replacing specialist review of trade instruments. Five-day weekly leadership is covered by the day rate, with exceptional travel separately approved and no annual salary equivalent or guaranteed permanent conversion attached.

What you will own

• Establish the trade-programme register linking funded flows, participant adoption and documentation exceptions, identifying retained credit and legal approvals before commercial expansion or programme renewal is considered.
• Decide supplier and receivables programme priorities within approved appetite, distinguishing durable working-capital value from reported volume supported by temporary pricing or unverified participant behaviour.
• Challenge dynamic-discounting and channel-finance cases through buyer, supplier and bank economics, preserving liquidity and risk assumptions rather than treating earlier payment alone as a sufficient benefit.
• Direct trade instrument exception reviews with authorised specialists, keeping documentary interpretation, counterparty approval and customer legal obligations outside the VP's commercial and operational delegation.
• Approve budgeted programme support with explicit adoption and service-readiness conditions, stopping spend when documentation or operating capability cannot support the promised customer or participant experience.
• Escalate settlement, concentration and programme dependency issues with commercial alternatives, refusing new commitments that would require unapproved credit, instrument or regulatory exceptions to deliver projected growth.
• Transfer the VP seat through successor-led programme renewal and instrument-exception reviews, accepted economics working papers and a signed record of open retained-risk or legal decisions.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate VP or comparable trade, payments or supply-chain finance vertical responsibility with programme decisions personally owned. Provide a receivables or supplier-finance case that changed after commercial and operating challenge. Candidates must identify credit and legal authority retained by the bank rather than implying that a product leadership title grants financing approval.
• Show practical understanding of core trade instruments, structured trade, discounting and receivables workflows at the relevant functional level. Explain an instrument or documentation exception escalated instead of waived. The role requires connecting product economics to authorised operating evidence, not customer legal representation or a claim that programme volume proves control quality.
• Evidence working-capital and cash optimisation judgement through a redacted programme comparison including buyer, supplier and financing consequences. Identify where an apparently beneficial discounting arrangement transferred cost or risk without durable value. Analytical and automation skills are useful when supported by financial method, but cannot replace specialist instrument interpretation or retained credit decisions.
• Provide twenty-three years of relevant trade or transaction-banking experience supported by a successor-led programme renewal. Show how participant eligibility, instrument exceptions and commercial commitments remained distinguishable after leadership changed. Explain one retained credit or legal decision the successor correctly refused to make, demonstrating mature vertical authority rather than an assumed enterprise finance or risk approval mandate.

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 14 October 2026. Mandate reference PCT-INT-2026-IND-38.