Banking GCC Finance Operations Risk — Interim Director

The mandate

The interim must hold the India finance-operations risk seat, ensuring that service completion is not mistaken for effective control. The problem is especially acute where one team's output becomes another location's reporting input without a clearly retained approval boundary.

The role begins on 19 October 2026 for twelve months, with permanent recruitment proceeding concurrently. Pune is the primary base and travel to other India capability locations is scheduled around risk reviews. The opening quarter establishes the control ownership map; the last quarter includes joint testing with the appointed successor and remote walkthroughs with relevant global finance owners.

Handover requires every material finance-service risk to have an accountable owner, an evidence-based control assessment and a documented escalation path. The successor must lead one operational risk review, challenge a failed control and explain a cross-location dependency without the interim interpreting the history. Critical issues cannot be closed merely because a remediation task has been marked complete.

Delegated authority covers risk assessment, challenge of service acceptance and direction of existing control staff. The director may stop a finance-service handoff when required evidence is absent and approve budgeted remedial work up to ₹20 lakh. Risk appetite, regulatory representations, permanent headcount changes and accounting-policy decisions remain with their authorised executive or committee owners.

The role excludes statutory finance sign-off, enterprise cyber-security operation and wholesale redesign of the capability organisation. Technology or process changes are recommendations until properly approved. Five days weekly are included in the proposed day rate; extensions require a recorded unfinished control gap and successor plan rather than the convenience of continued interim availability.

What you will own

• Establish the India finance-service risk map, identifying where delivery ownership, control operation and retained regional approval diverge across each material service boundary.
• Decide whether control evidence supports a service handoff, rejecting completion claims when review, reconciliation or authorised acceptance cannot be independently demonstrated.
• Challenge remediation closure through operating tests and fresh-period samples, preventing policy updates or staff training attendance from substituting for actual control performance.
• Escalate concentration and dependency risks to global finance owners with options that distinguish local remediation from matters requiring enterprise risk-appetite approval.
• Approve a risk-review calendar linking issue ageing, service change and control assurance, allocating reviewers independently from the team whose work is being assessed.
• Direct existing risk analysts through evidence standards and escalation thresholds, preserving their ability to report adverse findings without delivery-management suppression.
• Transfer control judgement to the permanent director using a live failed-control case, cross-location ownership rehearsal and an accepted residual-risk decision record.

Candidate qualifications

• Evidence director-level finance operations risk leadership in banking, insurance or a similarly controlled financial-services capability setting. Show one service handoff challenged and the authority under which you intervened. The role requires a distinction between delivering a process and judging its risk; shared-services scale alone does not establish independent control competence.
• Demonstrate financial accounting and operational-risk depth sufficient to interrogate reconciliations, reporting dependencies and review evidence. Provide a redacted risk assessment showing an apparently completed control that failed its operating test. Qualified accounting and systems-audit knowledge are relevant, but certifications must be supported by practical ownership of finance-service risks.
• Show understanding of SOX-related control evidence, issue governance and global-local accountability without claiming that one framework replaces all banking obligations. Explain how you resolved a disputed control owner across locations and which residual risk remained with the business. Candidates must be able to communicate limitations honestly and preserve authorised accounting and regulatory sign-off.
• Substantiate leadership through a tested successor transfer or service-risk transition, including analyst escalation independence and remediation revalidation. Twenty-three years of relevant experience should include decisions at the required functional scope. Evidence must show judgement, not only portfolio reporting, meeting coordination or familiarity with a prominent financial institution.

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 PCT-INT-2026-IND-24.