Business Analyst Apprentice - Birmingham

GLOBAL BANKING SCHOOL LTD

Birmingham (B5 4LJ)

Closes in 7 days (Thursday 1 May 2025)

Posted on 14 April 2025

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Summary

As a Business Analyst Apprentice, you’ll support CI project delivery, working with managers and stakeholders to learn about business processes, data analysis, and optimisation. This role offers hands-on experience and professional growth for a future in Business Analysis, Project Management, or CI.

Wage

£22,000 a year

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Training course
Business analyst (level 4)
Hours
Monday - Friday, working hours TBC

40 hours a week

Start date

Friday 2 May 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

Business Analysis:

  • Support in gathering, documenting, and analysing business requirements from stakeholders
  • Assist in the creation of functional specifications and process maps
  • Analyse business processes and provide insights to improve efficiency and effectiveness
  • Conduct research and prepare reports on market trends, competitor analysis, and industry best practices
  • Participate in stakeholder meetings, taking notes and following up on action items
  • Help with data collection and data analysis to support decision-making processes
  • Support the Business Analyst team in preparing presentations and reports for senior management
  • Assist in the testing of new software or systems to ensure they meet business requirements
  • Develop and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Participate in training and development programs to enhance knowledge and skills

Project Support:

  • Assist in the planning, tracking, and monitoring of project activities
  • Update and maintain project documentation, schedules, and reports

Governance and Reporting:

  • Ensure project compliance with governance frameworks and company policies
  • Prepare status reports, dashboards, and other project-related documentation
  • Assist in the analysis of project performance data to identify trends and recommend actions

Stakeholder Engagement:

  • Build and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders at all levels
  • Communicate effectively with internal teams and external stakeholders
  • Schedule and coordinate meetings, capturing minutes and action points

Continuous Improvement Initiatives:

  • Support the identification and execution of process improvement projects as per CI methodologies
  • Assist in analysing existing processes to identify inefficiencies and recommend enhancements
  • Participate in workshops or brainstorming sessions aimed at driving operational excellence

Tools and Systems:

  • Use Business Analysis, Continuous Improvement and Project Management tools and software to manage workflows and data
  • Support the maintenance and improvement of wider Business Improvement unit templates and processes

Learning and Development:

  • Participate in training sessions and complete coursework related to the apprenticeship program
  • Develop knowledge of Business Analysis, Project Management methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, or PRINCE2 and continuous Improvement standards such as Lean Six Sigma

Where you’ll work

Norfolk House, Smallbrook Queensway
Birmingham
B5 4LJ

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

METAGEDU APPRENTICESHIPS LTD

Your training course

Business analyst (level 4)

Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)

Course contents
  • Apply appropriate approaches to scope, plan and perform Business Analysis
  • Communicate effectively in a variety of situations with a range of stakeholders
  • Apply a range of structured investigation techniques to a business situation
  • Produce an outline definition of a business situation using an appropriate technique
  • Apply appropriate techniques to identify problems and opportunities within a business situation
  • Support the identification and presentation of proposed actions to stakeholders in order to gain agreement for further analysis activity
  • Apply appropriate techniques to analyse and document options and recommendations for change
  • Elicit process information from stakeholders
  • Model business processes using relevant techniques, standards, notation and software tools
  • Analyse business process models to identify opportunities for improvement
  • Produce models of redesigned business processes
  • Elicit requirements from stakeholders to identify business and user needs
  • Document clear functional and non-functional requirements in line with local standards
  • Analyse documented requirements to remove duplication, conflict and overlap
  • Prioritise requirements using an appropriate prioritisation approach
  • Validate requirements with stakeholders
  • Support the establishment of requirements traceability
  • Elicit business data needs from relevant sources
  • Support the development of simple data models using relevant techniques, standards, notation and software tools
  • Document current business situations to enable gap analysis and decision making
  • Support the development of models of future state business situations
  • Identify key differences between current and future business situations
  • Identify actions required to move from the current to future business situation
  • Define acceptance criteria for business and system changes
  • Support business acceptance of business and system changes
  • Apply relevant techniques to research and identify stakeholders
  • Analyse and document stakeholders' areas of interest and influence
  • Support the development of cost/benefit analysis for proposed business changes
  • Evaluate and document the key impacts on people, process, organisation, technology and information
  • Present information in a manner appropriate to the audience
  • Apply appropriate approaches to scope, plan and perform Business Analysis
  • Communicate effectively in a variety of situations with a range of stakeholders
  • Apply a range of structured investigation techniques to a business situation
  • Produce an outline definition of a business situation using an appropriate technique
  • Apply appropriate techniques to identify problems and opportunities within a business situation
  • Support the identification and presentation of proposed actions to stakeholders in order to gain agreement for further analysis activity
  • Apply appropriate techniques to analyse and document options and recommendations for change
  • Elicit process information from stakeholders
  • Model business processes using relevant techniques, standards, notation and software tools
  • Analyse business process models to identify opportunities for improvement
  • Produce models of redesigned business processes
  • Elicit requirements from stakeholders to identify business and user needs
  • Document clear functional and non-functional requirements in line with local standards
  • Analyse documented requirements to remove duplication, conflict and overlap
  • Prioritise requirements using an appropriate prioritisation approach
  • Validate requirements with stakeholders
  • Support the establishment of requirements traceability
  • Elicit business data needs from relevant sources
  • Support the development of simple data models using relevant techniques, standards, notation and software tools
  • Document current business situations to enable gap analysis and decision making
  • Support the development of models of future state business situations
  • Identify key differences between current and future business situations
  • Identify actions required to move from the current to future business situation
  • Define acceptance criteria for business and system changes
  • Support business acceptance of business and system changes
  • Apply relevant techniques to research and identify stakeholders
  • Analyse and document stakeholders' areas of interest and influence
  • Support the development of cost/benefit analysis for proposed business changes
  • Evaluate and document the key impacts on people, process, organisation, technology and information
  • Present information in a manner appropriate to the audience

Your training plan

The successful candidate will complete a Business Analyst Level 4 Apprenticeship.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

  • Maths (grade 4-9)
  • English (grade 4-9)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Team working

Other requirements

Starting salary of £22K.

About this company

Global Banking School (GBS) is a dynamic and fast growing Higher Education provider with campuses across the UK.  We are a vibrant and diverse family of committed staff bringing life-changing learning to a wider range of communities. Applying evidence-based research and corporate case studies to classroom learning, we provide higher education that has real impact and real world relevance.

After this apprenticeship

Excellent progression available within the company. The successful applicant will undertake more responsibilities as the apprenticeship develops with a strong view to securing permanent employment on completion.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

METAGEDU APPRENTICESHIPS LTD

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000315530.

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Closes in 7 days (Thursday 1 May 2025)

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