Integrated Cash and Performance Model Senior Director

The mandate

The consulting problem is to connect performance drivers to cash outcomes through an integrated planning model that decision owners can explain. Current profit and cash views are individually supportable but require manual interpretation when timing, working capital and non-cash movement diverge. The assignment will deliver the model, control pack, scenario library and internal capability required for routine use.

Seven artifacts are contracted: driver-to-statement design, accrual-to-cash conversion rules, working-capital schedule, model and controls, scenario library, pilot report, and transfer dossier. The model must reconcile to approved baselines and expose timing assumptions rather than resolving differences through high-level cash overlays.

Delivery reviews fall after four and eight weeks, then at months four, five, seven, nine and ten. Finance owners accept design and rules; the control lead accepts model and reconciliation; the steering group accepts scenarios, pilot and transfer. Acceptance requires reproducible integrated statements, stress consistency, closed critical defects and owner-led operation.

Client inputs comprise controlled financial views, approved driver definitions, payment and collection assumptions, working-capital owners, non-cash schedules and a nominated pilot group. The consultant will not set commercial or treasury policy. Missing inputs enter a dependency register and appear transparently in model confidence.

What you will own

• Map each material performance driver through income statement, balance-sheet movement, cash timing and return consequence.
• Define accrual-to-cash conversion rules with source, owner, horizon, evidence and exception treatment.
• Build working-capital schedules that separate underlying behavior, volume, timing, overdue movement and one-off effects.
• Reconcile opening balance, movement and closing position for every integrated statement within agreed materiality.
• Create scenarios that preserve accounting identities while testing demand, margin, timing, collection, payment and investment choices.
• Establish model controls for version, assumption, logic change, balancing, review evidence and release.
• Run a pilot forecast and compare integrated outputs with existing approved views, explaining every material difference.
• Transfer operation through an internal owner-led forecast and stress update completed without consultant correction.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 15 years in integrated FP&A, cash forecasting or financial modelling, including Director-level consulting delivery.
• Evidence of personally building or directing a three-statement planning model that materially improved cash decisions.
• Advanced knowledge of working capital, accrual conversion, non-cash movement, balance-sheet integrity and scenario mechanics.
• A case where a high-level cash overlay concealed a timing or ownership problem and how you removed it.
• Experience setting reconciliation tolerances, model-change controls and defect acceptance for production planning.
• Ability to work with finance, treasury and operating owners without assuming their policy or execution rights.
• Demonstrated transfer through complete internal operation and explanation of an integrated model.

Working terms and boundaries

• The ten-month commission is delivered four days a week and contains seven formal milestones.
• Deliverables cover model, controls, scenarios, pilot and transfer; treasury execution, commercial policy and production-platform implementation are excluded.
• The consultant may recommend model treatments but cannot approve accounting, payment, collection or funding policy.
• Controlled statements, driver definitions, timing assumptions, owner access and a pilot group are client dependencies.
• Completion requires reconciled statements, closed critical defects, accepted scenarios and an owner-led integrated forecast.

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 12 October 2026. Mandate reference FPA-CON-2026-SHA-48.