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Siemens Energy India is looking for a Lead – Procurement Governance, Compliance & Risk to own the control, audit and risk agenda for Supply Chain Management. Procurement here spends across a large manufacturing and project footprint, and the quality of its governance is what allows the function to move at speed without losing control.
You will own the procurement policy and control framework across Source-to-Contract and Procure-to-Pay, lead the internal audit and assurance agenda within SCM, and drive the shift from manual, after-the-fact checking to digital, continuous and preventive monitoring. This is a governance role with a strong technology and analytics core — controls are expected to be built into systems and data, not run on spreadsheets.
It is a high-visibility position: you will work with category and operational procurement teams, Global Business Services, Internal Audit, Compliance, Legal, Finance and IT, report into senior management forums, and represent the India organisation in Siemens Energy's global procurement governance and supply chain resilience networks.
How You'll Make an Impact
• Own the procurement policy and control framework — policies, guidelines, Delegation of Authority and signature authority — including periodic review, simplification and localisation of global standards for India.
• Maintain the risk and internal control framework across Source-to-Contract and Procure-to-Pay, mapping control checkpoints to the systems in which they must operate.
• Lead the SCM internal audit programme end to end — audit calendar, scoping, fieldwork, data analytics, reporting and closure tracking across sourcing, P2P, shared-services processes and manufacturing sites.
• Investigate procurement irregularities — order splitting, threshold circumvention, off-contract spend, contract-to-invoice leakage, duplicate suppliers and payments — and drive root-cause remediation.
• Act as the single SCM interface to Internal Audit, Statutory Audit and Compliance, owning management responses and driving findings to closure.
• Run the procurement and supplier risk assessment programme for critical, high-value and single-source suppliers, and maintain the supplier risk dashboard.
• Automate the control environment through continuous control monitoring, automated control testing, digital evidence collection and exception analytics — three-way match breaks, price and quantity mismatches, duplicate vendor and payment detection — feeding a live compliance dashboard.
• Build a governance scorecard that makes compliance health measurable, and shift the function from reactive control to predictive, preventive risk management.
• Apply analytics and AI to compliance — AI-enabled dashboards, a policy assistant for buyers, and automated challenge of sourcing recommendations before award.
• Enforce segregation of duties, approval thresholds and delegation of authority, and drive full digitalization of the approval landscape.
• Deliver governance training and awareness across procurement and requisitioning teams, and advise category and site teams on compliant, commercially sound deal structuring.
• Partner with digital and IT teams so that governance requirements are designed into the ERP, e-sourcing and supplier data landscape from the start.
What You Bring
Qualifications
• Chartered Accountant, MBA (Finance, Operations or Supply Chain), or Engineering graduate with a relevant post-graduate qualification.
• Professional certification such as CIA, CISA, CFE or CIPS is an advantage.
Required Skills & Experience
• 8–12 years of experience with a substantial share in procurement governance, internal audit, risk and internal controls, or process assurance — preferably in manufacturing, EPC, energy or engineering.
• Proven end-to-end ownership of an audit programme: scoping, fieldwork, analytics, reporting and closure with senior stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience designing or operating controls over Source-to-Contract and Procure-to-Pay — approval matrices, delegation of authority, segregation of duties, three-way match and contract compliance.
• Experience localising global policy for an Indian listed-entity environment — Companies Act, internal financial controls, related-party and BRSR requirements.
• Supplier risk assessment and third-party due diligence experience is a strong plus.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP (S/4HANA MM / SRM) and e-procurement platforms such as Ariba — able to follow the transaction trail, not only read the standard report.
• Analytics capability for audit and controls: SQL, Power BI, advanced Excel / Power Query, and ideally ACL, IDEA or Python; able to design continuous-monitoring rules and exception logic independently.
• Familiarity with GRC and continuous control monitoring tools and workflow automation.
• Working literacy in AI applied to compliance and assurance.
Additional Information
• Travel to manufacturing sites and supplier locations is part of the role.
• The position offers scope to build a governance and analytics capability as the agenda scales.
