REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

“RECRUITEMENT OF TWO BI CONSULTANTS FOR THE

DEVELOPMENT OF ANALYTICAL REPORTS AND DASHBOARDS”

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Avenue Joseph Anoma, 01 B.P. 1387, Abidjan, CÔTE d'IVOIRE

Corporate IT Services Department (CHIS)

E-mail: IT_Recruitment@AFDB.ORG

Telephone: (+225) 20 26 22 61/ (+225) 20 26 25 83

1. The African Development Bank hereby invites Individual Consultants to indicate their interest in the following Assignment: Development of analytical reports and dashboards.

2. The Bank intends to engage the services of a two Senior Consultants to serve as Business Intelligence (BI) Consultants.

The selected Senior Consultants will manage, create, maintain and support all BI life cycle

components managed by BI Team including maintenance and development on SAP BI

Platform, OBIEE Datamarts, analyzing the best way to provide the Operational reporting,

implementation and assistance for Self-BI services on SAP BI Tools, Oracle Analytics or

Power BI.

The consultants will also be involved in the Analysis and Relation with users, and cover all

skills ranging from data mining and extraction from different sources (SAP S4Hana, Database

format, MS Office format, data warehouse format, etc.), maintenance of corporate data

warehouse and DataMart, the development of analytical reports and dashboards and

dissemination into a portal for the main used platforms by CHIS BI Team.

The Consultants should understand the source systems (SAP4HANA, SUMMIT, Oracle

Database, SQLServer, MySQL and SharePoint), ETL principles for SAP ETL products,

Talend, BI database concepts, reporting tools, BI analysis concepts and dashboards.

The responsibilities of the Consultants will include the following:

Task Description

Requirements Analysis - Assist or replace Business Analyst to collect

Requirements

- By domain, provide the list of reports to update,

create, migrate and archive. -

ETL development from

S4HANA, internal and

external relational or

decisional databases

- Mapping data sources and targets according to the

recommended tool (SAP BW4Hana native ETL,

SAP Data services, Talend Data Integration or

SSIS)

- Development of the ETL/ELT

Maintenance of the

corporate Data Warehouse

BW4HANA and legacy

- Maintain and enhance BW4Hana as a corporate data warehouse and maintain legacy DataMart

DataMarts

Development of analytical

reports, dashboards and

portals

- Development mainly under SAP BI TOOLS (SAP Webi, Lumira, Analytics for Office) and

maintenance of OBIEE and PowerBI reports;

- Enable mobile device support as a key point of specific solution

Self-BI - Implementation of Self-BI by supporting Business Data analysts in using SAP Lumira Desktop, SAP

Webi, Oracle Analytics, Microsoft Power BI or

Tableau Desktop

Validation of Results - Validate with users that the solution is correct in the target system and the reports and graphs are in

line with user expectations and specifications

Online user guide and

technical documentation

- Create an online user guide for end user if needed - Provide a technical document analysis of the

solution with the list of objects, the target data

model, data mapping sources and star model,

reports and graph description

- Provide final report of his mission to be approved by the CHIS Manager.

Knowledge Sharing - Work closely with BI Team and provide necessary training or assistance

- Report periodically to the BI Team Leader.

3. Essential skills and qualification

The consultants must have the following skills and experiences:

▪ Master’s degree in computer science, software development or related business fields and/or equivalent work experience.

▪ Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a customer-facing Business Analyst within an IT organization

• Strong understanding of BI technologies, trends and tools specially for SAP BW4HANA platform, OBIEE Platform and MSBI platform.

• Deep Knowledge and skills in data warehousing methodologies, Decision Support, OLAP Technology and Multi-dimensional Data.

• Knowledge on SAP HANA Data modelling and Data services is a plus.

• Certification on BI skills is a plus.

▪ Very good knowledge and experiences in the development with SAPBW4HANA, OBIEE or SQLServer.

▪ Very good knowledge and experiences in the development with SAP BI-BO Reporting tools (SAP Webi, SAP Lumira designer and Discoverer 2.0, SAP Analysis for Office),

with OBIEE Suite (Administration Tool, OBIEE, APEX, Oracle Analytics) and with

MS reporting Tool (PowerBI).

▪ Good knowledge on SAP HANA, Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server Databases. ▪ Very good knowledge and experiences in the development of SAP Data services,

Talend Data Integration Studio or SSIS.

▪ Good knowledge of web principle and technology (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

▪ Knowledge to develop data flow and workflow in SAP BODS and import files into HANA tables using SAP Data Services, SAP SLT, Smart Data Access (SDA) and SAP

Information Steward

▪ Experience on SAP HANA modelling using Attribute, Analytic, Calculation views is a plus.

▪ Experience on SAP Fiori, SAP BPC are a plus

▪ Programming experience with ABAP Objects in SAP BW4 and HANA SQL is desirable.

4. The Corporate Information Technology Services Department (CHIS) invites Individual Consultants to indicate their interest in providing the above-described services. Interested

Consultants shall provide information on their qualifications and experience demonstrating

their ability to undertake this Assignment (CV, documents, reference to similar services,

experience in similar assignments, etc.).

5. The eligibility criteria, the establishment of a short list and the selection procedures shall be in

conformity with the Bank’s procedures for the acquisition of consulting services funded by the

administrative or capital expenditure. Please, note that interest expressed by a Consultant does not

imply any obligation on the part of the Bank to include him/her in the shortlist.

6. The estimated duration of services is 12 months and the estimated starting date is 01 February 2021.

7. Interested Individual Consultants may obtain further information at the address below during the Bank’s working hours: from 08:00 to 17:00 hours, Abidjan Local Time.

8. Expressions of interest must be received by email at the address below no later than Wednesday, 02 December 2021 at 17:00 hours, Abidjan local time and specifically

mentioning “BI Consultants for the development of analytical reports and dashboards”.

For the attention of: IT Recruitment Team

African Development Bank

Corporate IT Services Department (CIMM)

Avenue Joseph Anoma, 01 B.P. 1387,

Abidjan, CÔTE d'IVOIRE

Tel: (+225) 20 26 22 61

Email: IT_Recruitment@AFDB.ORG

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SHORT LIST

8. A shortlist of three to six individual consultants will be established at the end the request

of expressions of interest. The consultants on the shortlist will be judged on the following

criteria on the basis of their updated resume.

Level of education in general 20%

Educational level compared to the field of mission 20%

Years of experience in general 20%

Number of years of experience relevant to the mission 40%

mailto:IT_Recruitment@AFDB.ORG