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GCC hiring in India
GCC hiring in India. Finance, analytics and leadership teams.
Stellaspire helps global companies hire the people who make a Global Capability Centre work: the site leaders, finance teams and analytics talent that turn a mandate into a functioning team in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and beyond.
Who this is for
Built for teams setting up or scaling in India.
A GCC rarely fails for lack of candidates. It struggles when early hires do not understand how a global parent works, or when a team grows faster than its leadership. We hire with both in mind.
- Global leaders opening an India centre who need a site head, finance lead or analytics lead they can trust from day one.
- GCC heads scaling an existing centre into new capabilities such as FP&A, controllership, data or AI.
- CFOs and finance directors moving finance operations, reporting or planning work into a shared centre.
- CHROs and talent heads with diversity goals for leadership and specialist hiring.
Roles we hire
From the first leader to the full team.
Specialist roles where context, judgment and fit with a global parent matter most.
| Function | Typical roles | Seniority |
|---|---|---|
| GCC leadership | Site head, centre director, country lead, head of operations | Director to VP |
| Finance & controllership | Financial controller, head of FP&A, record-to-report lead, finance transformation lead | Manager to Director |
| Planning & analysis | FP&A managers and analysts, business finance partners, commercial finance | Analyst to Senior Manager |
| Data & analytics | Analytics leaders, data scientists, data engineers, BI and reporting leads | Senior IC to Head |
| AI & ML | ML engineers, applied scientists, AI product and platform roles | Senior IC to Lead |
| Risk, treasury & compliance | Treasury, internal audit, risk and regulatory reporting specialists | Manager to Director |
The exact scope of each search is agreed in the first hiring conversation.
What makes GCC hiring different
People who can work with the parent company and build the India team.
The right GCC hire understands both the parent company and the Indian talent market.
We assess candidates on stakeholder management across time zones, experience of transition and stabilisation, and the capability to build teams, as well as technical skill. Compensation is benchmarked against the local GCC market for the role and city.
How we run a searchOur process
A clear method for every GCC mandate.
Each search follows the same five stages, so your team always knows what happens next and what we need from you.
Process, models & fees
01
Align the mandate
Agree the role, reporting lines into the global team, location, compensation range and what success looks like in the first year.
02
Map the market
Identify relevant GCCs, Indian corporates and adjacent talent pools, and share what the market says about availability and pay.
03
Assess and shortlist
Interview for capability, motivation and global-stakeholder fit, then present a considered, diversity-balanced shortlist.
04
Interview and offer
Coordinate interview loops across time zones, gather feedback quickly and help align the offer.
05
Joining and team build
Stay close to the candidate until joining, then support the next hires as the team grows.
Engagement models
Choose the model that fits the mandate.
Commercial terms, including replacement terms, are shared in writing before a search begins.
Contingency search
For specialist and mid-senior roles. You pay a fee only when a candidate we introduce joins.
Retained search
For site heads, finance leaders and confidential hires that need a dedicated, research-led search.
Dedicated hiring
For new centres hiring several roles at once, with a dedicated recruiter and a shared hiring plan.
Decision support
Specialist partner, in-house team or generalist staffing?
| What matters | Specialist partner (Stellaspire) | In-house TA | Generalist staffing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance & analytics depth | Core focus | Varies by team | Usually broad, not deep |
| Leadership and confidential search | Yes | Harder to run discreetly | Rarely |
| Market mapping and pay insight | Shared with every search | Limited to own data | Limited |
| Diversity-balanced shortlists | Built into every search | Depends on sourcing reach | Not usually a focus |
| Best for | Critical and senior hires | Steady, repeat hiring | High-volume roles |
From our founder
Hear it from our founder.
Nikita Agrawal on how we hire, in under a minute. In Hindi and English.
How we check a candidate before you meet them
Background, motivation and fit: what we verify before a profile reaches your inbox.
The diversity lens
Gender-balanced shortlists,
by design.
Many GCCs have public diversity goals. As a women-led firm, we search actively for qualified women candidates, including experienced professionals returning after a career break, for every GCC mandate.
Where we hire
GCC hubs across India.
Based in Bengaluru, we support GCC mandates across India's main capability-centre hubs.
BengaluruHyderabadPuneMumbaiDelhi NCRChennai
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GCC hiring questions
GCC hiring questions.
A Global Capability Centre (GCC) is an offshore unit owned by a global company that delivers functions such as finance, analytics, technology and operations for the parent organisation.
We focus on GCC leadership, finance and controllership, FP&A, data and analytics, and AI/ML roles, from senior specialists to site and function heads.
Yes. Founding leadership hires are usually run as retained, confidential searches with a market map shared before the shortlist.
We are based in Bengaluru and support GCC hiring in Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Chennai and other locations agreed for the mandate.
Every search actively includes qualified women candidates, and our returnship network gives access to experienced professionals restarting their careers.
Fees depend on the role, seniority, number of positions and engagement model. We share commercial and replacement terms in writing before the search begins.
Building a team in India? Let’s map it together.
Tell us about the centre, the first roles and the timeline. We will come back with a suggested search approach.