GBS Finance Hyderabad Centre Head - Food Ingredients

Are you passionate about service excellence? Would you love to work for a global organization that is doing more good for people and planet?

IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.

Food Ingredients: Innovating improved nutritional profiles, better taste and texture, and greater cost efficiency to meet the needs of global food and beverage manufacturers.
 

The role is based in Hyderabad, India(hybrid role). Be part of a creative, solution-oriented team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.

What's your next big career move?

If you are a visionary finance and shared services leader who thrives on transformation, operational excellence, and building high-performing global teams, this is your opportunity to shape the future of a world-class Global Business Services organization and create lasting enterprise-wide impact.

The GBS Finance Center Head, will lead end-to-end finance delivery from India, supporting multiple regions. This role combines strategic leadership with operational excellence, focusing on scaling operations, driving financial transformation, enhancing controllership, enabling digital finance, and delivering cost and value outcomes aligned with enterprise strategy. Additionally, the Center Head will oversee the setup and governance of the Global Capability Center, ensuring best-in-class service delivery and transformation across finance and related domains.

Where You'll Make a Difference

• Lead end-to-end delivery of Finance Shared Services operations across Record-to-Report (RTR), Order-to-Cash (OTC), and Source-to-Pay (STP), ensuring operational excellence, service quality, and consistent achievement of business objectives.
• Establish and govern robust SLA, KPI, and performance management frameworks, driving accountability, service excellence, and strong stakeholder satisfaction across global business functions.
• Drive process standardization, harmonization, continuous improvement, and best-practice adoption across regions, creating scalable and efficient operating models that support global growth.
• Ensure strong financial governance through effective internal controls, SOX compliance, audit readiness, regulatory adherence, and proactive resolution of audit findings, compliance gaps, and operational risks.
• Partner closely with Controllership, Finance, IT, Data, and Transformation teams to enhance financial close processes, reconciliation quality, reporting accuracy, automation, analytics, and digital finance capabilities.
• Serve as a trusted strategic and operational partner to senior stakeholders, leading governance forums, Quarterly Business Reviews, and operational reviews while managing priorities, demand intake, risks, and expectations across the Americas and global teams.
• Act as the single point of accountability for center-wide Finance service delivery, providing transparent communication on performance, risks, improvement initiatives, and value realization outcomes.
• Own the Finance GBS budget, headcount strategy, workforce planning, productivity targets, and transformation benefits, delivering sustainable cost optimization, operational efficiencies, and measurable business value.
• Build, lead, and develop high-performing, multi-level teams across global time zones, fostering leadership capability, succession planning, employee engagement, talent retention, strategic talent acquisition, workforce optimization, and an inclusive, performance-driven culture aligned with diversity, equity, and inclusion priorities.

What Makes You The Right Fit

• Provide strategic leadership for the Global Business Services (GBS) organization, leveraging deep expertise in shared services and global capability center operating models to deliver scalable and sustainable business outcomes.
• Drive excellence across Finance processes, including Record-to-Report (RTR), Order-to-Cash (OTC) and Source-to-Pay (STP)ensuring strong governance, operational efficiency, and service delivery performance.
• Ensure adherence to accounting standards, controllership requirements, financial reporting frameworks, procurement policies, approval hierarchies, and audit control processes.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate financial, operational, compliance, and business risks while maintaining a robust control environment.
• Partner effectively with senior global stakeholders, serving as a trusted advisor and influencing strategic decisions across Finance, Operations, and Corporate functions.
• Lead within complex, matrixed organizations, fostering collaboration across regions and functions while driving alignment with enterprise priorities and business objectives.
• Champion organizational transformation initiatives, leading process optimization, automation, and continuous improvement programs that enhance efficiency, quality, and business value.
• Leverage digital finance capabilities and enterprise technologies, including ERP platforms such as SAP ECC, SAP Central Finance (CFIN), and related digital finance tools, to modernize operations and strengthen decision-making.
• Drive change management and capability-building initiatives while promoting a culture of operational excellence through the application of methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, and Agile, supporting global stakeholders across the US, Europe, and APAC regions.

 

How Would You Stand Out?

• Bring a strategic mindset and proven experience driving world-class GBS or GCC organizations that support enterprise growth and operational excellence at a global scale.
• Combine deep Finance expertise with a passion for transformation, leveraging technology, analytics, and process innovation to enhance business performance and decision-making.
• Inspire teams and stakeholders through inclusive leadership, strong execution, and a demonstrated ability to build lasting partnerships across the Americas, Europe, APAC, and global functions.
   

Why Choose Us?

• Be part of a transformative journey, shaping a global business services organization with enterprise-wide impact.
• Play a pivotal role in building, scaling, and leading high-performing teams within a dynamic and growing global environment.
• Partner closely with executive leadership and senior stakeholders to influence strategy, transformation, and future-state operating models.
• Drive operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement while creating measurable business value.
• Join a collaborative, purpose-driven organization where your leadership, growth, and potential are valued and celebrated.
   

Important Information Regarding This Position
For your awareness, IFF has announced its intention to sell its Food Ingredients Business to CVC Capital Partners. The sale is presently expected to close in the first half of 2027, pending regulatory approvals and other closing conditions. The Food Ingredient business unit will remain a part of IFF until close and, at such time, it will transition to CVC Capital Partners. In applying for this position, you acknowledge your awareness that the position is a part of the Food Ingredient business unit and has been identified to transition to CVC Capital Partners.

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more