About the Role

NextEra is seeking an experienced Business Analyst with strong Project Management capabilities for a contract role in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This position supports strategic Finance Transformation initiatives, particularly within the Oracle Fusion ERP environment. The successful candidate will act as a critical liaison between Finance, IT, PMO, and external vendors to ensure the successful delivery of business improvement initiatives, process optimization, value realization, and governance activities.

Core Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, and document business requirements across Finance and ERP domains.
• Conduct current-state and future-state process assessments, identifying gaps, inefficiencies, and automation opportunities.
• Recommend solutions to improve operational efficiency and business performance, translating business requirements into functional specifications for technical teams.
• Support the planning, execution, monitoring, and reporting of Finance transformation projects.
• Maintain project plans, schedules, action trackers, and milestone reports, monitoring progress and escalating issues, risks, and dependencies.
• Coordinate activities among Finance, IT, PMO, and external implementation partners, ensuring alignment between project objectives and business priorities.
• Prepare governance materials and project status reports for leadership reviews, maintaining risk registers, issue logs, and decision trackers.
• Support steering committee meetings and executive governance forums, ensuring adherence to project management methodologies and governance standards.
• Support tracking of value realization initiatives and business benefits, developing performance metrics and dashboards to measure project outcomes.
• Conduct business impact assessments and improvement evaluations, monitoring achievement of transformation objectives and operational KPIs.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities and defect resolution.
• Support change management initiatives and user adoption programs, facilitating stakeholder workshops, training sessions, and communication activities.
• Perform data analysis, validation, and reconciliation activities, supporting financial reporting accuracy and data integrity initiatives.
• Prepare management reports, executive presentations, and business insights, analyzing trends and providing recommendations to improve business outcomes.

Key Deliverables

The selected candidate will be responsible for delivering:

• Process Assessments and Gap Analysis Reports
• Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) and Functional Requirement Specifications
• Project Status Reports and Governance Updates
• Risk Registers, Issue Logs, and Action Trackers
• Executive Management Presentations
• UAT Coordination Reports
• Value Realization Dashboards and Performance Reports
• Operational Improvement Recommendations
• Transformation Progress Reports

Candidate Profile and Experience

The ideal candidate will possess a combination of business analysis expertise, project coordination experience, financial process knowledge, and strong stakeholder management skills. A minimum of 5-10 years of experience is required. Preferred industry experience includes Banking, Financial Services, Government, Utilities, Telecommunications, or Large Enterprise Organizations.

Success Factors

Success in this role will be measured by the ability to:

• Enable efficient delivery of Finance transformation initiatives.
• Improve business processes and drive operational efficiencies.
• Ensure accurate project governance and reporting.
• Facilitate effective collaboration between business and technical teams.
• Support the realization of targeted business benefits and transformation outcomes.

Location and Work Type

This is a contract position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.