Business Intelligence Specialist (SAP)
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About the Role
Egis is seeking a Business Intelligence Specialist (SAP) in Riyadh to ensure PMIS solution operational success by protecting SAP as the system of record, ensuring correct financial integration, and enabling clean reconciliation.
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Responsibilities
- Own the SAP facing integration workstream end to end, defining and validating integration objects
- Define reconciliation rules (what must match, tolerances, timing, cutoff, error handling)
- Produce/validate an Interface Register (object, owner, frequency, triggers, payload, validation rules, error handling, logging)
- Validate that PMIS workflows align with SAP financial controls and processes
- Design the SAP relevant SIT/UAT test strategy with scenarios mirroring real lifecycle events
- Lead defect triage for SAP facing issues, identifying root cause and prioritizing fixes
- Define SAP specific cutover plan inputs including data migration approach, freeze periods, and go live checklists
- Review solution architecture from SAP licensing and access exposure perspective to prevent hidden costs
- Act as SAP counterpart to PMIS expert, IT Apps/Infra, P&TA, and OpCos finance/project teams
Requirements
- 8 12+ years of hands on experience with strong governance mindset
- Deep SAP finance and project costing domain (FI/CO + Project Systems (PS))
- Proven track record integrating external systems into SAP (interfaces, middleware, APIs/IDocs/OData, error handling, reconciliation)
- Strong understanding of WBS/project coding structures and downstream accounting/reporting impacts
- Experience supporting SIT/UAT design and execution, defect triage, and release readiness
- Ability to act as ERP design authority, challenge vendor designs, and prevent scope creep
- Strong grasp of licensing exposure and architectural choices that can trigger unexpected costs
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Company Overview
- Egis is a leading global architectural, consulting, construction engineering, operations and mobility services firm.
- Egis has 20,500 employees operating across over 100 countries.
- With 3,500 employees across 8 countries in the Middle East, Egis has delivered over 700 complex development projects.
Purpose of the Role
- Ensure the PMIS solution becomes operationally successful by protecting SAP as the system of record, ensuring correct financial integration, preventing license and scope surprises, and enabling clean reconciliation and acceptance across OpCos and corporate oversight.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the SAP facing integration workstream end to end: define and validate integration objects (budgets, commitments, actuals, payments, vendor data).
- Approve interface method and design (API/IDoc/OData/middleware) with IT Apps.
- Define reconciliation rules (what must match, tolerances, timing, cutoff, error handling).
- Produce/validate an Interface Register (object, owner, frequency, triggers, payload, validation rules, error handling, logging).
- Validate that PMIS workflows align with SAP financial controls and processes (WBS structure, cost object mapping, budget control points).
- Review vendor functional design documents and confirm they are buildable without rework.
- Design the SAP relevant SIT/UAT test strategy with scenarios mirroring real lifecycle events.
- Define UAT entry/exit criteria and definition of done for SAP integration.
- Lead defect triage for SAP facing issues: identify root cause, prioritize fixes, validate resolution.
- Define SAP specific cutover plan inputs: data migration approach, freeze periods, reconciliation during cutover, go live checklists, rollback criteria.
- Ensure operational support readiness (hypercare model, incident triage rules).
- Review solution architecture from SAP licensing and access exposure perspective.
Qualifications
- Years of experience: 8–12+ years, hands on + strong governance mindset.
- Core SAP expertise: deep SAP finance and project costing domain (FI/CO + Project Systems (PS)); awareness of MM/PM as needed.
- Proven track record integrating external systems into SAP (interfaces, middleware, APIs/IDocs/OData, error handling, reconciliation).
- Strong understanding of WBS/project coding structures and downstream accounting/reporting impacts.
- Understanding of budget/commitment/actuals flows, cost objects, cost elements, settlement, availability control.
- Experience supporting SIT/UAT design and execution, defect triage, and release readiness.
- Risk control/governance DNA: able to act as ERP design authority, challenge vendor designs, prevent scope creep.
- Strong grasp of licensing exposure and architectural choices that can trigger unexpected costs.
- Comfortable in executive facing governance: can explain trade offs in plain language and document decisions.
- Nice to have: SAP security/authorizations knowledge (roles, SoD concepts, audit trails).
- Nice to have: Data migration experience (opening balances, historical actuals/commitments, cutover sequencing).
- Nice to have: Public sector / large holding company governance exposure (multi entity, shared services).
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