General Mills India
General Mills India | Associate Director, Global Finance Operations
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Job Highlights
Key accountabilities
- The role delivers as the Finance leader to all the service delivery of the global / regional hubs for AR/AP & GAO organization.
- This role will oversee vendor service delivery and finance operations, ensuring seamless integration and execution of financial services across the organization.
- The role is crucial in managing vendor relationships, optimizing service delivery and driving operational efficiency while ensuring that all finance operations are aligned with company goals.
- This role also leads the finance operations transformation agenda by advancing scalable processes, modern business systems, and high-performing external partnerships to improve control, efficiency, service, and business value.
- The incumbent needs to be a strategic thinker with a strong background in vendor management, finance operations, and process optimization.
- The role will also be responsible for projects delivery involving multiple internal, external and matrix partners.
- Develop strategy & road map for driving global finance operations with service excellence, digital integration and actionable insights driven organization.
- Lead end-to-end delivery across Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and General Accounting Operations across global and regional hubs like India, China, Europe and North America.
- Ensure finance operations are aligned to business priorities, scalable for growth, and executed with high standards of consistency and quality.
- Act as a trusted advisor to finance leaders, controllers, and business stakeholders on strategic priorities and operational decisions.
- Lead strategic relationships with external partners to ensure delivery against SLAs, contractual commitments, and business expectations.
- Oversee the right source mix across in-house and outsourced models to expand scope and strengthen capability delivery.
- Monitor service performance and relationship health through structured reviews with stakeholders and finance leadership.
- Controls, Compliance & Operational Excellence.
- Ensure all finance processes operate efficiently, remain compliant, and meet business and control requirements.
- Ensure General Mills control protocols and defined guidelines are consistently implemented across vendor-managed operations.
- Partner with Audit and Compliance teams to support reviews, issue resolution, and overall process integrity.
- Lead the finance operations transformation agenda to improve control, efficiency, service, and business value.
- Identify and apply external best practices, digital trends, and emerging capabilities to advance finance operations maturity.
- Build business cases for technology enablement and process modernization to enhance service delivery and operational effectiveness.
- Drive a continuous improvement mindset focused on simplification, standardization, and automation.
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing global finance organization across multiple regions.
- Drive team engagement, performance management, and talent planning to build a strong and sustainable leadership pipeline.
- Build strong engagement with vendor teams to protect critical talent and reinforce the General Mills brand.
- Foster a collaborative, results-oriented culture supported by ongoing capability building and professional development
Requirements
- Significant experience in finance domain with controllership / Finance operations of a division or Business / Leadership roles in Finance organization.
- Financial Acumen: Strong understanding of financial principles, processes, and systems is essential for driving process scope expansion, capability definition, and delivery.
- Knowledge and understanding of Accounting Standards (Indian and US GAAP).
- Strong knowledge and expertise in accounting function and processes like general ledger, inventory management, and cost accounting.
- Proven track record of leading and coordinating strategic initiatives within a global organization, with experience in setting interfaces and aligning functional strategies.
- Knowledge of Systems like SAP and expertise on technical tools is preferred.
- Preferred Major Area of Study: Finance & Accounting
About the company
General Mills, Inc.
General Mills was formed on 20 June 1928 in its present form when James Ford Bell merged Washburn-Crosby with a number of other regional flour mills, and its roots go back to the Minneapolis Milling Company, incorporated in 1856. Its shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in November 1928. The company is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and sells branded foods through retail stores, including breakfast cereals, baking mixes, refrigerated dough, soup, snack foods and ice cream. It added the pet food maker Blue Buffalo in 2018. In India, General Mills runs the General Mills India Center in Mumbai, a global capability centre that supports the group in supply chain, digital technology, innovation, consumer insights and finance. A satellite office for digital and technology staff opened in Pune in 2025.
Finance hiring is concentrated in Mumbai and covers a wide range of work: corporate finance, supply chain accounting, financial consolidation on OneStream, US payroll tax, SAP finance, cost management, FP&A, brand finance, global internal audit and global finance operations. Roles run from executive and trainee level to associate director and head of function. Several postings ask for a Chartered Accountant or an MBA in Finance, and cost management trainee roles are open to candidates pursuing CMA Intermediate or Final. Internal audit roles prefer CPA, CIA or CISA, and other postings ask for a graduate or postgraduate degree.
