Business-unit Chief Financial Officer — Wind Equipment Contract Obligations

The mandate

A wind-equipment manufacturing business has extended its commercial offer beyond hardware delivery into commissioning support and selected service commitments. Contract finance still assesses the equipment margin separately from guarantees and obligations that survive customer acceptance. The Business-unit CFO will take integrated finance responsibility for this bounded operating business, ensuring apparent shipment profitability does not obscure the cash and risk remaining afterwards.

An eighteen-month initial agenda will establish integrated contract cash, obligation estimates and finance control within open-ended permanent employment. The appointment leads the unit's accounting and commercial finance teams while coordinating borrowing and bank instruments through group treasury. Its scale is a single manufacturing business with related service activities, providing direct operating accountability rather than authority over the entire industrial group.

Delivery, acceptance and guarantee release are different economic events. A customer may accept equipment while retaining payment pending site conditions or performance evidence, and a service promise can create costs not captured in the factory standard. Finance must connect those events to the actual contract facts and technical input. An improved shipment schedule cannot be treated as cash improvement when the relevant collection condition has not advanced.

The CFO may approve unit finance priorities, routine provisions and working-capital actions within agreed delegation. Material guarantee issuance, exceptional customer settlements, new financing and significant contract risk require group or board approval. Technical performance assessment belongs to engineering, and legal owners determine contractual enforceability. The role does not guarantee energy output, certify commissioning or make unauthorised changes to bank-instrument terms.

After twelve months, management should see each material contract's cash collected, cash conditionally due and remaining obligations in one reconciled view. The following six months strengthen forecast quality and estimation controls through observed service and warranty outcomes. Continuing accountability covers subsequent contract generations, finance talent and external audit, retaining a transparent distinction between booked profit, realised cash and commitments still requiring operating performance.

What you will own

• Establish a contract obligation register linking hardware delivery, commissioning support, warranty assumptions and agreed service commitments, assigning evidence owners for the costs and release conditions that remain after shipment.
• Decide the finance concurrence standard for customer terms, testing collection conditions and guarantee exposure together rather than approving equipment margins that depend on unsupported post-delivery assumptions.
• Reconcile outstanding customer cash to acceptance and performance evidence, distinguishing an overdue unconditional receivable from payment that remains subject to an uncompleted contractual condition.
• Govern warranty and service estimate reviews with engineering and operating input, documenting the financial effect of changed failure or support patterns before they become unexplained reporting adjustments.
• Build guarantee-capacity and release forecasts with group treasury, identifying instruments whose duration or collateral requirement restricts the unit's ability to support profitable new orders.
• Lead unit accounting and audit review for material contract positions, ensuring provisions, receivables and commitments tell a consistent financial story while preserving specialist ownership of technical conclusions.
• Develop plant and contract finance successors through quarterly obligation reviews, requiring them to explain how operating events change cash, estimates and authorised risk acceptance across the full contract lifecycle.

Candidate qualifications

• Substantial manufacturing controlling or operating finance leadership should include contract-heavy equipment or industrial businesses, with demonstrated responsibility for accounting and business decisions. Show how you brought an obligation surviving delivery into a financial review and changed the customer terms, cash plan or estimate as a result. Prior wind-equipment knowledge is valuable; comparable industrial contract complexity is also credible.
• Bring strong understanding of delivery-linked collections, performance guarantees and warranty or service estimates. Evidence should explain the distinction between a technical acceptance milestone and the actual contractual payment or release condition. Describe a case where faster delivery did not produce the expected cash benefit, and identify the operating evidence needed to make the forecast realistic.
• Demonstrate financial reporting and audit judgement under changing obligation facts. You must connect estimates to authorised assumptions, assess new evidence and preserve an auditable explanation of revisions. Provide an example of challenging an optimistic provision or service-cost forecast while obtaining qualified technical input, including the approval route and subsequent review of the accepted estimate.
• Establish practical readiness to lead a bounded business finance function and work constructively with group treasury, commercial directors and engineering leaders. The seat requires accountable judgement, team development and clear escalation. Describe a material contract risk you refused to treat as routine, your own finance contribution and how the authorised decision was maintained through delivery and later obligation reviews.

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 15 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-PER-2026-IND-056.