Management-to-Statutory Bridge Director

The mandate

The Interim Director will stabilise the bridge from management reporting to statutory accounts where definitions, allocations and late accounting adjustments currently require repeated reconstruction. The assignment starts with a live reconciliation and ends with controlled rules, clear ownership and an internal leader capable of running the bridge. It does not redesign management performance measures or statutory policy.

In the first twenty working days, the Director will map material reconciling classes, trace their origin, identify recurring top-side work and locate adjustments with no stable reversal or owner. Authority includes setting evidence deadlines, rejecting unsupported bridge items, assigning resolution ownership and requiring earlier review. The Corporate Controller retains approval of statutory conclusions.

The Director must differentiate valid view differences from defects. Management allocations may be appropriate internally but require clear statutory removal; accounting adjustments may be absent from management information but need controlled reflection; and definitions may diverge intentionally. Each class will receive a rationale, calculation, source, reviewer and treatment over time.

By month four, an approved bridge rulebook and movement control should operate. The remaining period will prove it through two close cycles, eliminate avoidable reconstruction and transfer ownership through shadow and reverse-shadow stages. An internal successor must be able to explain both the bridge total and unusual movements to senior review.

Out of scope are redesign of management measures, budgeting, systems implementation, tax reconciliation and statutory-signatory duties. Recommendations may be logged, but the interim remains accountable for the accounting bridge and handover. Extension is limited to a failed owner-readiness test, not delayed documentation.

What you will own

• Catalogue all material management-to-statutory reconciling classes and identify the owner of facts, calculation and approval.
• Separate intentional reporting-view differences from inconsistent data, unprocessed accounting or control defects.
• Define recurring bridge rules, reversal logic and evidence standards for each approved adjustment class.
• Build a movement analysis that explains opening position, current-period additions, releases, reclassifications and close balance.
• Remove avoidable top-side reconstruction by directing correction to the earliest accountable source.
• Demonstrate two cycles with timely review, fewer unexplained items and complete approval evidence.
• Train a successor to run review meetings, challenge anomalies and present the bridge to senior governance.
• Keep management-measure redesign, planning, tax and system implementation outside the assignment.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate interim recovery of a management-to-statutory reconciliation with several adjustment classes.
• Describe an apparent reporting difference you proved was actually missing or inconsistent source accounting.
• Show how you governed recurring adjustments, including reversals and comparative-period treatment.
• Evidence a movement bridge that enabled reviewers to challenge causes rather than only agree totals.
• Explain how you protected the distinction between internal performance measures and statutory requirements.
• Provide quantified improvement across timeliness, manual reconstruction and unexplained movements.
• Show successful transfer to a named internal owner before contract end.

Working terms and boundaries

• The nine-month engagement is five days weekly and covers diagnosis, rulebook, two live proofs and handover.
• Operating authority over bridge preparation does not include changing management measures or approving statutory policy.
• Day rates include on-site work and normal close intensity; extraordinary travel requires approval.
• A two-month extension is available only if the internal successor fails a documented readiness test.
• Planning, tax, system build and statutory sign-off are expressly excluded.

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 6 October 2026. Mandate reference FNA-INT-2026-AUH-26.