Associate Director Record to Report — Manufacturing Entity Close Integrity

The mandate

Three manufacturing entities share an R2R centre whose close calendar is reliable but whose balance evidence varies sharply between plants. Manual accruals and late adjustments can be reported as completed tasks without a clear explanation of the underlying obligation. The organisation is creating an associate-director seat to lead this service perimeter and make controller acceptance dependable. Employment is open-ended; the twelve-month opening agenda focuses on journal quality, plant input ownership and repeatable balance-sheet substantiation before the centre moves into continuing control development.

Manufacturing close requires more than a clean general-ledger extract. Goods received but not invoiced, production-related accruals and inventory interfaces depend on operating facts that plant owners must provide. The associate director will establish when evidence supports a routine entry and when an unresolved accounting question needs the entity controller. A mechanically balanced reconciliation can still conceal a stale obligation or missing source event. The centre must retain the reason a balance exists and how it will resolve, not merely certify that a supporting schedule has been attached.

Thirty-six professionals report through close and reconciliation managers. You approve routine journals and service-control decisions under documented delegation, prioritise close exposure and require plant input acceptance before marking dependent work complete. Entity controllers retain accounting policy, material estimates and financial-statement sign-off. The services director approves budget and organisation changes beyond your limits. Plant operations owns physical records; inventory valuation and technical costing policy remain with authorised accounting owners. The associate director is accountable for the centre's evidence and execution, not for silently absorbing every missing plant decision into a closing adjustment.

The opening year should leave explainable material balances, fewer unsupported recurring entries and managers able to challenge weak inputs before close pressure peaks. Gurugram is the working base, with regular manufacturing-site exposure. Continuing responsibility includes developing supervisors who can distinguish a genuine estimate from a copied prior-period amount and sustain controller review across later reporting cycles. The centre's quality will be judged through defensible conclusions and accepted evidence, not just faster completion of the same tasks or a reduction in open items achieved through unexamined netting.

What you will own

• Establish manufacturing close evidence standards for routine accruals and interface balances, distinguishing acceptable estimates from copied entries whose original operating basis is no longer available or valid.
• Decide close priorities across three entities using material unresolved obligations and source dependencies, protecting controller review time rather than rewarding whichever team can mark the most tasks complete first.
• Approve delegated journals through traceable source and rationale checks, escalating accounting-policy or material-estimate questions before the service centre treats them as ordinary adjustment work.
• Set plant input acceptance and escalation with operating owners, documenting which facts remain missing and preventing a finance schedule from implying that physical or inventory evidence has been verified.
• Build balance-sheet substantiation that explains the obligation, movement and next resolution decision, challenging reconciliations that agree arithmetically but retain stale or unsupported amounts.
• Develop close managers and reconciliation supervisors through worked review cases, enabling them to reject weak support and distinguish service execution from entity-controller accounting authority.
• Present centre close quality through controller-accepted evidence and recurring-source findings, recommending operating control changes without making unsupported claims that reduced open-item counts prove stronger financial integrity.

Candidate qualifications

• Describe R2R or controllership work where a completed manufacturing close concealed a weak balance or journal rationale. Explain the operating evidence you secured, the adjustment or control decision and the entity-controller review that followed. The required proof is personal ownership of close quality and source challenge, not only delivery of a calendar or supervision of transaction volume.
• Bring 18–22 years in finance shared services, GCC accounting or related controllership, with substantial senior-manager responsibility. CMA, recognised accounting training or equivalent professional depth should support your command of general-ledger review and balance substantiation. You must be able to lead a multi-entity service team while preserving the controllers' responsibility for policy, material estimates and external financial reporting.
• Demonstrate practical judgement around manufacturing accruals, goods-receipt interfaces or comparable source-dependent balances. Show how you separated an evidence gap from a genuine accounting estimate and prevented a prior-period entry from becoming the default answer. Process-improvement capability is valuable where it strengthens the review route, but must not reduce material judgement to a rule that assumes every unresolved plant input can be standardised away.
• Evidence coaching of close and reconciliation managers under demanding deadlines, including constructive challenge when plant or controller priorities conflicted. You should have developed deputies, maintained an owned residual-action record and tested the effect of revised input standards over subsequent periods. Site engagement, precise records and secure entity information handling are necessary to an enduring associate-director institution whose authority is broader than one team's monthly task delivery.

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-162.