Tata Consumer Products | Director - Digital Transformation, Integrated Finance

Responsibilities

• Our pursuit of excellence propels us toward innovations that redefine industry standards, and we’re looking for a maverick to lead this revolution.
• If you’re passionate about the intersection of IT, finance and business operations, we want you on our team!
• This job opportunity closely aligns with the key strategic pillar, which is Driving Digital & Innovation, creating a Future-Ready Organization, and Exploring New Opportunities.
• This role is instrumental in reshaping Integrated Finance through digital transformation & innovation, aligning technology, processes, and stakeholder needs to drive strategic agility and operational excellence.
• The incumbent will bring strong digital acumen, finance domain expertise to deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that enhance visibility, accelerate execution, and improve decision-making across the enterprise.
• The role demands strong ownership, stakeholder engagement, and a sharp focus on delivering value through scalable, data-driven products.
• Lead the Next Wave of Finance Transformation.
• Own and drive the enterprise Finance Digital Transformation agenda across Corporate Finance, Business Finance, GCC and other Finance functions.
• Build the roadmap for the future of Finance, combining process simplification, standardization, automation, data, analytics, Generative AI and Agentic AI.
• Drive transformation across Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Record-to-Report (R2R), FP&A, MIS and management reporting, Taxation, Treasury, Controls, Internal Audit and other Finance processes.
• Establish measurable transformation outcomes and ensure adoption and value realization.
• Build an Agentic Finance Operating Model.
• Develop an agentic framework for Finance, identifying where intelligent agents can automate activities, augment Finance professionals or fundamentally redesign processes.
• Build a prioritized portfolio of Finance agents across transactional, analytical, reporting, control and decision-support processes.
• Establish appropriate human-in-the-loop controls, governance, security and accountability for AI-driven Finance processes.
• Partner closely with the Global Capability Centre serving multiple businesses, customers and geographies.
• Identify opportunities for process consolidation, standardization and automation across the GCC.
• Drive productivity and operating leverage through AI, agents, automation and redesigned processes.
• Establish productivity, service, quality and efficiency measures and continuously improve them.
• Act as the Digital Business Partner to Finance Leadership.
• Partner closely with the Group CFO, India CFO, Business Finance CFOs and their leadership teams.
• Build strong alignment between Finance, Digital & Technology, GCC, implementation partners and other stakeholders.
• Establish common process architecture and standards across Finance.
• Drive harmonization across businesses and geographies wherever economically and operationally appropriate.
• Build strong process ownership, controls, KPIs and governance.
• Ensure technology follows the redesigned process rather than automating inefficient legacy processes.
• Own Transformation Execution and Governance.
• Ensure strong delivery discipline across internal teams, GCC and implementation partners.
• Manage dependencies across ERP, Finance platforms, data, integrations, cybersecurity and enterprise architecture.
• Ensure appropriate governance around AI, data, controls, compliance and security.
• Partner with Finance leadership to shape and execute the Finance Transformation roadmap.
• Lead enterprise-wide transformation across P2P, R2R, FP&A, MIS, Taxation, and other finance domains.

Requirements

• Significant experience in Finance transformation, Finance business partnering, digital transformation or technology-enabled Finance change.
• Demonstrated experience working with senior Finance stakeholders, preferably CFO-level leadership.
• Experience delivering complex transformation across multiple businesses, functions or geographies.
• Experience working with Shared Services / Global Capability Centres is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of the emerging application of Generative AI and Agentic AI in Finance.
• Ability to identify processes that can be redesigned using agents rather than simply applying automation to existing workflows.
• Understanding of enterprise data, analytics, ERP and integration architecture.
• Ability to combine Finance process knowledge with technology and AI possibilities.
• Exposure to RPA, intelligent automation and digital Finance platforms is valuable, but the mindset should extend beyond traditional RPA.
• Candidates should have a strong academic foundation from a reputed institution.
• Able to envision how Finance will operate in an AI and agent-driven enterprise and translate that vision into an executable roadmap.
• Comfortable engaging CFOs and Finance leaders as a peer, understanding their agenda and converting business problems into transformation outcomes.

Tata Consumer Products Limited

Tata Consumer Products Limited holds the Tata Group's main food and beverage businesses. The company in its present form dates from 2020, when the consumer products business of Tata Chemicals was merged into Tata Global Beverages and the combined company was renamed. Its brands include Tata Tea, Tetley, Eight O'Clock Coffee, Himalayan natural mineral water, Tata Salt, Tata Sampann and Tata Soulfull, sold in India and more than 40 countries. Capital Foods and Organic India are also part of the group, and their openings are posted on the same careers site.

Finance roles at Tata Consumer Products cover business and category finance, sales and supply-chain finance, plant finance, corporate finance and controllership, group reporting and finance transformation, many of them in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Gurugram. Its postings often ask for a CA, CMA (ICWA) or MBA (Finance), and some are open to CA Inter, M.Com or B.Com candidates with relevant experience.

• Industry: FMCG: tea, coffee and other beverages, salt, staples and packaged foods
• In India: Finance teams in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Gurugram, with plants, depots and sales offices across India