GCC & Captive Hiring

GCC and Captive Hiring, Financial Services

Global capability centres are now where a large share of financial services work in India actually happens: technology, risk, financial crime, operations, and increasingly product. We recruit for these centres continuously, and this section is where we publish what we learn. No gated PDFs, no lead forms. If it is useful and you later want help hiring, you know where we are.

At a glance

A global capability centre (GCC), or captive, is an offshore centre a bank, insurer or asset manager owns and staffs in India to run its own technology, risk, financial crime, operations and product work. PeopleCap recruits for these financial services centres continuously and publishes its market maps, hiring guides and compensation data here.

Why is hiring for a financial services GCC different?

India now holds several hundred financial services capability centres, and they have moved a long way from the back-office image the term used to carry. The work today is core: platform and product engineering, risk and quant technology, information security, financial crime and KYC operations, and the leadership layers above them. That shift changes what hiring for a centre demands. A candidate weighing a captive role wants to know what the centre actually owns, how far its charter runs, and whether the seat is a service function or a build function, and a recruiter who cannot speak to those distinctions loses the strongest people at the first conversation.

The centres cluster in a handful of markets. Bengaluru holds the largest concentration in the country, with Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune each holding significant banking and financial services captive operations. The guides below map who operates where, what the roles look like, and what centres actually pay, all drawn from mandates we run rather than a survey.

If you are standing up or scaling a centre and want help with the hiring itself, that sits with our GCC and captive recruitment practice, where we can size the realistic talent pool and compensation picture before you open a single role.

And if you are weighing whether to build a captive at all, there is a lighter path. Outpost gives fintech and financial services firms worldwide a dedicated engineering team in India, employed and run by us: the capability of a captive without standing one up, with a build, operate and transfer route to owning the team later.

Guides and data

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