Controllership Service Transition Director

The mandate

An interim director is required to lead a controllership service transition while permanent leadership is secured. The work includes selected close, reconciliation, journal, intercompany and reporting-support activities, but formal accounting judgement and balance sign-off remain with controllers. The immediate gap is an executive who can enforce readiness and protect live cycles throughout transfer.

In the first 20 working days, the director will validate scope, retained responsibilities, process stability, documentation, data, access, training and control ownership. No wave will be accepted on a planned date alone. The director can pause a transition, redirect readiness resources and require additional evidence within the approved transition governance.

Months two through seven will execute controlled waves with parallel evidence, issue triage and explicit exit criteria. Each transferred activity needs a service owner, controller interface, escalation route and proof through representative cycles. Manual workarounds are allowed only with authorised control, capacity, evidence and expiry.

Months eight through ten will stabilise service, reduce retained shadow work and prove that issue ownership is not dependent on the transition team. The role does not approve accounting policy, sign balances, choose systems, grant access or make permanent organisation decisions. Those authorities remain visible and separately accountable.

The final two months focus on transfer to a permanent leader and deputies. Handover includes wave decisions, residual exceptions, service and control health, capability gaps and a 90-day agenda. An extension can only close this successor transfer; it cannot add new transition waves.

What you will own

• Validate scope and readiness across process, documentation, data, access, control, training, service and retained ownership.
• Exercise authority to pause waves or require remediation where evidence does not meet agreed acceptance conditions.
• Define parallel-run measures and exit tests that include accounting quality, control evidence, rework and retained effort.
• Protect close continuity through controlled contingencies with named ownership and expiry.
• Establish controller-service interfaces for judgement, balance sign-off, exception and escalation.
• Reduce shadow work retained after nominal transfer and make unresolved capacity explicit.
• Demonstrate stable service over representative close cycles before ending heightened transition governance.
• Transfer decisions, residual risks, team assessment and next priorities to permanent leadership and deputies.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate interim leadership of controllership service transitions across live close cycles.
• Show a transition wave you paused despite timetable pressure and which readiness evidence later supported release.
• Bring practical depth in journals, reconciliations, intercompany, close and controller-service boundaries.
• Provide an example where nominal transfer concealed retained shadow work and how it was corrected.
• Evidence safe use and retirement of temporary workarounds during transition.
• Describe acceptance measures that combined service, control and accounting quality rather than task volume.
• Show an early, detailed permanent-owner handover rather than an end-of-term document dump.

Working terms and boundaries

• The interim appointment is twelve months at five days a week, aligned to transition and close cycles.
• Authority covers wave readiness, resource sequence and transition evidence within approved governance.
• Accounting policy, balance sign-off, access approval, system choice and permanent organisation decisions are excluded.
• New waves cannot be added through a handover extension.
• Any extension is capped at six weeks and limited to permanent-owner and deputy 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 12 October 2026. Mandate reference FNA-INT-2026-PRG-43.