Business Analyst Apprentice

Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation

UK (SE1 0EH)

Closes on Friday 30 May 2025

Posted on 14 April 2025

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Summary

Are you looking to build a long-term career in Business Analysis? Then look no further! Start your career today with a Level 4 apprenticeship with Guys and St Thomas and Kaplan. You will be gaining valuable workplace experience whilst working towards the Business Analyst qualification.

Wage

£20,000 a year

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the salary is between 20,000 - 25,000 dependant on experience.

Training course
Business analyst (level 4)
Hours
Shifts to be confirmed

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 30 June 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

  • Testing and Quality Assurance: Assist the Business Systems Team to achieve consistent approaches to terminology, templates, and record management
  • Business as usual tasks: Be an active part of the Business System team to support requests logged by end users, minor configuration changes, delivery of training and any other ad hoc tasks that may be required
  • Process Support: Assist the development of and create Training Materials/ Checklists to ensure end-users have the tools to enable them to perform in their roles
  • Product Backlog: Take responsibility for tracking and reporting backlogs and take own backlog load as allocated by the line manager and be accountable for completion
  • Process Design: Support the Team to design and develop new processes
  • Projects Delivery: Take an active project team member role in delivering projects using agile methodology (where appropriate)

Where you’ll work

The Grain House 46 Loman Street
London
UK
SE1 0EH

Training

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

College or training organisation

KAPLAN FINANCIAL LIMITED

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

Business Analyst Level 4 Apprenticeship Standard:

  • The Apprenticeship standard sets out the essential Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours that somebody would need to demonstrate to be successful in this job role, this includes technology and industry trends across the digital sector
  • Apprentices will need to show they are competent in all the areas detailed in the standard when they take End Point Assessment
  • The Knowledge areas of the apprenticeship will be covered through completion of our dedicated training courses which have been mapped to the standard. The Skills and Behaviours are developed through the practical experience gained in the job role, workplace training and mentoring, and the completion of 2 work-based projects
  • The Business Analyst apprenticeship equips individuals with the ability to understand the needs of stakeholders and how these can be met through business change and digital solutions

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

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

A Level or equivalent in:

  • Any x 2 (grade A-D)

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
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills

Other requirements

Please note this is a hybrid role with 30% of the working week in the office (can be balanced over a month) and the salary is between 20,000 - 25,000 dependant on experience.

About this company

We are on a mission to build the foundations of a society that helps everyone stay healthier, for longer.We’re an investor, the holder of valuable assets, and the enabler of a family of forward-looking organisations working to create better health.

After this apprenticeship

  • We are always looking for ways to expand and develop our talent. At this time it is to early to say what suitable positions may be available, but we will ensure the will be support the successful apprentice in pursuing their career development, through training, mentorship and experience so that they prepared for their next career move either internally of externally

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

KAPLAN FINANCIAL LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000315372.

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Closes on Friday 30 May 2025

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