Company overview
- Sector
- Banking, Financial Services & Insurance
- Sub-sector
- Financial Services
- Mandate (derived)
- Multi-Function / Full-Stack GCC
- Parent headquarters
- Leeds, England, United Kingdom
- Parent revenue (USD)
- $31,100,000,000
- Parent headcount
- 18,891
- India headcount
- Not disclosed
GCC locations
- Gurugram
- Bengaluru
Department mix
Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.
Technology stack
- .NET
- 24-7 Media
- ABAP
- ACT WorkKeys
- ADP
- AI
- ANGEL LMS
- API Gateway
- ASG Zeke
- AWS Analytics
- AWS Bedrock
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS CodeCommit
- AWS CodeDeploy
- AWS Database Migration Service
Public leadership
Sandeep Asthana
Country Head - India
Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.
Research overview
Sun Life Financial is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (not the UK, as the on-file record states) - a Canadian financial services company spanning insurance, wealth management and asset management with roughly CA$1.4 trillion in assets under management.
- India launch
- 2006
- Maturity
- Multi-Function / Full-Stack GCC
Sun Life Global Solutions delivers technology, actuarial, finance, legal, and risk/compliance services across Sun Life's Canada, US, Asia, and Asset Management pillars - transactional operations through higher-value knowledge work.
Timeline
- 2006
Sun Life expanded its Asia Service Centre (ASC) operations into India, based in Gurugram.
- 2023
Rebranded from Sun Life Asia Service Centres to Sun Life Global Solutions (SLGS), announcing plans to hire ~700 people in India over two years.
Leadership context
Sandeep Asthana is VP & Country Head, India at Sun Life Financial. He previously spent about eight years at RGA Services India, building it into a full local reinsurance company, and earlier worked at Zurich Risk Management Services (2000-2002); MBA from Harvard Business School, PGDM from IIM Lucknow, B.Tech from IIT Bombay.
Hiring signal
- Open roles
- 7
- As of
- 2026-08-26
- Manager - Finance (Revenue)
- Lead/Assistant Manager - Treasury
- Lead/Assistant Manager - ICFR CoE
Sources
Sources and research notes
Source: Indian GCC 2026 Master Compendium, Company Master and research records. Sector, mandate and public leadership are derived fields. Missing values are shown as not disclosed. Revenue and global headcount describe the parent company, not the India centre.