Senior Director, India- CFO Organization

Seismic; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Seismic seeks an experienced India leader to oversee Finance, Information Technology and Information Security within its CFO organization. The role partners with global leaders to implement priorities, drive governance, and scale operations in a fast-moving, matrixed environment.

You will lead senior managers and experts, shaping talent, governance, and execution while aligning local plans with global strategies and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of progressive leadership across corporate or general and administrative functions, with substantial experience in Finance, Information Technology or Information Security.
• Deep functional expertise in Finance, including adequate knowledge of IT or Information Security, and collaboration across other functions.
• Experience leading senior managers, functional leaders and subject-matter experts in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Significant experience in India within a US-headquartered multinational; SaaS/enterprise software exposure preferred.
• Experience working in a global matrix and balancing local needs with global functional strategies.
• Strong general-management orientation, commercial judgment, and ability to connect priorities with business outcomes.
• Proven ability to build organizations, develop leadership, and create high-performing teams.
• Strong executive presence, communication, stakeholder management, influencing, and presentation skills.
• Ability to build trusted relationships across functions, geographies and leadership levels.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for employees across Finance, IT and Information Security, aligning with global functional leaders.
• Lead and coach a team of senior leaders and experts, creating ownership and collaboration.
• Translate global strategies into India execution plans considering local priorities and regulations.
• Partner with executive leaders to ensure the India CFO organization supports business goals.
• Serve on India and CFO leadership teams, contributing to enterprise decisions.
• Establish operating rhythms: reviews, workforce planning, risk management, and AI-led growth opportunities.
• Foster global collaboration and consistency with other geographies.
• Build talent, succession pipelines, and leadership capability within India.

Skills

Executive leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Finance/Technology

Master’s degree / Professional Certification

Job description

About Us

Seismic is the Go-To-Market Performance company, driving how organizations turn their strategy into revenue. Seismic brings together signals from customer conversations, buyer engagement, governed content, coaching and seller behavior to turn intelligence into winning action. Through its AI revenue execution platform, the company equips customer-facing teams with the insights, governance, and contextual guidance they need to execute with confidence and deliver measurable business outcomes. Trusted by 2,500 organizations and over 3.5 million users around the globe, Seismic is headquartered in San Diego with offices across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Learn more at seismic.com.

About Us

Seismic is the Go-To-Market Performance company, driving how organizations turn their strategy into revenue. Seismic brings together signals from customer conversations, buyer engagement, governed content, coaching and seller behavior to turn intelligence into winning action. Through its AI revenue execution platform, the company equips customer-facing teams with the insights, governance, and contextual guidance they need to execute with confidence and deliver measurable business outcomes. Trusted by 2,500 organizations and over 3.5 million users around the globe, Seismic is headquartered in San Diego with offices across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Learn more at seismic.com.

Seismic is committed to building an inclusive workplace that ignites growth for our employees and creates a culture of belonging that allows all employees to be seen and valued for who they are. Learn more about DEI at Seismic here.

Overview

Seismic is seeking an experienced and versatile business leader to provide India leadership across the Finance, Information Technology and Information Security organizations.

This is a broad general management role within the CFO organization. The Senior Director will lead and enable accomplished functional leaders including Directors, Senior Managers and subject matter experts while ensuring strong alignment between India priorities and the global strategies of Finance, IT and Information Security.

This position will have dual reporting to the President and Managing Director, India and the Global Chief Financial Officer. The role will also work closely with global functional leaders responsible for Finance, IT and Information Security.

Success in this role requires strong business judgment, the ability to lead senior functional talent, and experience operating effectively within a complex, globally matrixed organization. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in at least one of the relevant functions, along with demonstrated leadership, oversight or partnership across the others.

Who you are

• At least 20+ years of progressive leadership experience across corporate or general and administrative functions, with substantial experience in Finance, Information Technology, Information Security or a closely related area.
• Deep functional expertise in Finance, including adequate knowledge of IT or Information Security, combined with demonstrated experience leading, overseeing or partnering effectively across the other functions.
• Experience leading senior managers, functional leaders and subject-matter experts in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Significant experience operating in India within a US-headquartered multinational organization; experience in a SaaS or enterprise software company is preferred.
• Experience working within a global matrix and balancing local organizational needs with global functional strategies, standards and accountabilities.
• Strong general-management orientation, commercial judgment, and the ability to connect functional priorities with broader business outcomes.
• Demonstrated success in building organizations, developing leadership capability, and creating high-performing, engaged teams.
• Strong executive presence, with excellent communication, stakeholder management, influencing, and presentation skills.
• Ability to build trusted relationships and influence outcomes across different functions, geographies, and levels of leadership.
• Strong critical thinking, analytical, problem solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Experience managing multiple complex initiatives, setting priorities, and driving execution in a fast-moving environment.
• Sound understanding of governance, compliance, controls and enterprise risk in the Indian business environment.
• Bachelor's degree in business, Finance, Technology, Engineering or a related discipline is required.
• Master’s degree / Professional Certification in Finance, Technology or a related discipline is preferred.

What you’ll be doing

• Provide leadership for employees across Finance, Information Technology and Information Security, while maintaining close alignment with the respective global functional leaders.
• Lead, coach and enable a team of experienced functional leaders and subject-matter experts, creating clarity of ownership, accountability and collaboration across the organization.
• Translate global functional strategies into effective India execution plans, taking into consideration local business priorities, regulatory requirements and talent-market conditions.
• Partner with the President and Managing Director, India, the Global Chief Financial Officer and other executive leaders to understand business priorities and ensure that the India CFO organization is positioned to support them.
• Serve as a member of both the India leadership team and the CFO leadership team, representing the India organization and contributing to enterprise-wide decisions.
• Establish an effective operating rhythm across the three functions, including business reviews, workforce planning, priority setting, risk management, the escalation of critical issues and driving AI-led growth opportunities.
• Build strong relationships with CFO organization peers and functional leaders in other geographies to ensure consistency, transparency, and effective global collaboration.
• Partner with functional leaders and People teams to attract, retain, develop and engage high-performing talent across Finance, IT and Information Security.
• Build leadership capability and succession pipelines within the India organization, with particular focus on developing strong functional leaders and future enterprise talent.
• Promote a culture of collaboration in which local and global teams share knowledge, solve problems collectively, and operate with clear accountability.
• Support appropriate governance, controls, compliance and risk-management practices across the functions, in partnership with the relevant global subject-matter experts.
• Sponsor and oversee cross-functional programs and transformation initiatives that improve organizational effectiveness, operational scalability, and employee experience.
• Provide clear, timely, and executive-level communication regarding business progress, organizational health, risks, dependencies, and decisions.

What we have for you

At Seismic, we're committed to providing benefits and perks for the whole self. To explore our benefits available in each country, please visit the Global Benefits page.

Seismic is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, age, race, religion, or any other classification which is protected by applicable law.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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