Location: Noida Sec 144, India

Work Model: 3 days working from office

Position Summary

We are seeking a strategic executive to lead global procurement, Finance & Accounting shared services, and Oracle Fusion-enabled finance transformation. The role will drive enterprise value across technology and non-technology procurement, strategic sourcing, supplier governance, operational excellence, and digital process improvement.

Key Responsibilities

1. Global Procurement Strategy & Leadership (Global spend ~$350M)

- Develop and execute global procurement strategy across technology and non-technology spend.
- Build category strategies and sourcing frameworks aligned to business goals, value realization, risk mitigation, and supplier resilience.
- Drive spend governance, procurement compliance, transformation, and operating efficiency across the enterprise.

2. Strategic Sourcing & Commercial Negotiations

- Lead complex negotiations with global suppliers, technology providers, consulting firms, and managed service partners.
- Manage key non-technology categories, including facilities, real estate, travel, marketing, HR services, professional services, logistics, office administration, and corporate services.
- Deliver savings, cost avoidance, contract optimization, benchmarking, and supplier performance improvement.

3. Finance & Accounting Shared Services Leadership

- Lead Finance & Accounting Shared Services across AP, T&E;, vendor payments, controls, and compliance.
- Drive service excellence through SLAs, productivity metrics, process standardization, automation, and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Build a high-performing service delivery organization focused on quality, efficiency, and customer experience.

4. Finance Transformation & Oracle Fusion Enablement

- Partner with the Transformation Office to drive end-to-end finance transformation.
- Lead Oracle Fusion adoption, enhancements, process optimization, reporting, governance, and controls.
- Drive automation, workflow optimization, analytics, and measurable business benefit realization.




- Drive AI in Finance agenda

5. Stakeholder & Executive Relationship Management

- Act as a trusted advisor to executive leaders across Procurement, Finance, Technology, Operations, Risk, and Business Functions.
- Partner with senior leaders to identify value, efficiency, and transformation opportunities.
- Present strategy, performance updates, and transformation outcomes to executive forums.

6. Leadership & Talent Development

- Build, mentor, and lead high-performing global teams across procurement and finance operations.
- Foster accountability, collaboration, innovation, continuous improvement, coaching, and succession planning.

7. Risk Management, Governance & Compliance

- Establish governance frameworks across procurement and finance operations.
- Manage third-party, supplier concentration, compliance, operational control, audit, and regulatory risks.
- Strengthen financial and procurement controls to reduce operational risk.

Experience

- 25+ years of progressive leadership experience in Procurement, Finance Operations, Shared Services, and Transformation.
- Proven negotiations experience across technology, cloud, SaaS, qualified services, and indirect procurement categories.
- Experience leading AP, T&E;, Oracle Fusion finance transformation, and enterprise process redesign.
- Experience operating in multinational, matrixed stakeholder environments.

Critical Competencies

- Strategic Procurement & Category Leadership
- Finance Operations & Shared Services Management
- Oracle Fusion Transformation & Digital Enablement
- Executive Stakeholder Management
- Commercial Acumen, Risk Management & Governance
- Change Leadership, Data-Driven Decision Making & Talent Development
- Team management ~80 members (covering procurement & shared service)

Success Measures

- Procurement savings, value realization, and supplier performance improvement.
- Shared Services efficiency, SLA performance, and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Successful Oracle Fusion transformation and business benefit realization.
- Strong governance, compliance, risk outcomes, and team capability development.

📌 Vice President Procurement (Noida)
🏢 EXL
📍 Noida