Company context

The company manufactures engineered components through a multi-plant operating model and serves a diversified mix of domestic and export customers. Its economics depend on disciplined conversion of metals and other industrial inputs into specification-critical products, reliable capacity utilisation, controlled tooling and maintenance expenditure, and the ability to recover commodity, energy and logistics movements through pricing.

The Board is strengthening independent financial oversight as operating complexity increases across plants, products, customer programmes and capital projects. It wants an Audit Committee Chair who can move the control conversation beyond statutory closure and into the underlying truth of product costing, plant performance, working capital, quality losses, related-party exposure and capital deployment.

Board mandate

The Independent Director will establish a rigorous line of sight between shop-floor activity, management reporting, financial statements and external disclosure.



The role requires the judgement to distinguish temporary manufacturing variance from structural value leakage, legitimate commercial estimates from earnings management, productive capex from deferred operational discipline, and reported growth from cash-accretive growth.

The director will not function as an operating controller. The mandate is to ensure that the Board, Audit Committee and auditors receive reliable evidence, challenge assumptions before they harden into accounting positions, and insist on timely remediation where control weakness could affect safety, quality, cash, tax, reputation or reported performance.

Strategic and governance priorities

Rebuild the Audit Committee agenda around the principal sources of manufacturing judgement: standard-cost revisions, material and labour variance, overhead absorption, slow-moving inventory, scrap, rework, warranty, customer claims, tooling recovery and asset impairment.
Require a reconciled b

📌 Independent Director (Chennai)
🏢 Gladwin International
📍 Chennai