Team Lead II, Accounting
IFF · Hyderabad
Job Summary
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.
The Team Lead II, Accounting oversees the delivery and performance of services within the Record-to-Report subprocess, ensuring efficient and high-quality processes and compliance with relevant regulations and policies. Responsible for managing a medium-sized team (direct reports only).
How you will contribute
- Oversee the Record-to-Report (RTR) subprocess, ensuring all financial transactions are accurately recorded, reported, and compliant with accounting standards, company policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Lead and coordinate month-end and year-end close activities, ensuring timely, accurate, and complete financial reporting, including management of journal entries, accruals, provisions, and adjustments in line with internal controls.
- Perform and review balance sheet reconciliations to ensure the integrity, accuracy, and reliability of financial data.
- Ensure adherence to SOX/internal controls and support internal and external audits through timely resolution of audit queries and remediation of identified issues.
- Manage optimal utilization of team resources by balancing workloads, driving productivity, and delivering against established KPIs, SLAs, and performance targets.
- Identify process inefficiencies, root causes, and operational risks, implementing corrective and preventive actions while driving continuous improvement initiatives across the RTR function.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners, including AP, AR, FP&A, Tax, and Treasury teams, to ensure seamless end-to-end process alignment and effective issue resolution.
- Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships, ensuring high levels of service satisfaction while supporting transition activities, knowledge transfer, and stabilization in a shared services environment.
- Lead, coach, and develop team members through ongoing training, performance management, and career development initiatives, fostering an inclusive, high-performing, and engaged team culture focused on talent retention.
What You Will Need to Be Successful
- Qualified professional (CA, CPA, CMA, ICWA) or Post graduation in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 4-8 years of progressive experience in Finance and Accounting, with strong exposure to the Record-to-Report (RTR) process with minimum 1-3 years of people management experience, with a proven ability to lead, coach, develop, and engage high-performing teams.
- Demonstrated experience managing month-end and year-end close activities, balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, provisions, and financial reporting.
- Strong understanding of accounting principles, internal controls, SOX compliance requirements, and audit support processes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders across multiple functions and levels.
- Proven ability to manage priorities, balance workloads, monitor KPIs/SLAs, and deliver results in a fast-paced shared services or global business environment.
How Would You Stand Out?
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills.
- Continuous improvement mindset with experience driving process optimization and operational excellence.
- Strong SAP and RTR process expertise within a shared services environment.
Why Choose Us?
- Drive operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement while creating measurable business value.
- Be part of a transformative journey, shaping a global business services organization with enterprise-wide impact.
- Internal Training opportunities.
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