Apprentice Business Analyst

Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an Apprentice Business Analyst to join our growing business. The Apprentice Business Analyst supports the delivery of FSP's project & product implementations allowing you to gain exposure across multiple clients and sectors.

Annual wage Competitive
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Training course Business analyst (level 4)

Hours Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm.
37 hours a week

Possible start date
Monday 1 September

Duration
1 Year 6 Months

Positions available
1

Work
As an apprentice, you'll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You'll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you'll do at work

• Support in the successful delivery of innovative digital and technology solutions.
• Assist in gathering user requirements and project specifications.
• Analyse and prioritise use cases.
• Help clients succeed with technology projects through change consultancy, business communications and training.
• Build relationships with client stakeholders, developing an understanding of them, their business and their industry.

Where you'll work
NOW BUILDING
HERE & NOW
THAMES VALLEY PARK
READING
RG6 1WG

Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation
MULTIVERSE GROUP 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

Your training plan

• The Apprentice schedule consists of working from home one day per week, with the remaining four days spent in our Reading office.
• Apprenticeship training, provided virtually by Multiverse, is planned to take place on the home-working day.

Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:

• English (grade 2)
• Maths (grade 2)

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
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Initiative

Other requirements
Due to the nature of this role successful candidates may need to undergo security clearance. To be eligible for this role you must have lived in the UK for at least 5 consecutive years.

About this company
FSP are a leading enterprise-level digital evolution and cyber security consultancy. We enable peak performance, cultural cohesion and business growth through technology by adopting a comprehensive approach to strategy and creating viable, sustainable, and resilient digital futures for organisations and their teams. At the heart of everything we do is our unwavering commitment to the evolution of organisations and their people. We work in partnership with our clients, helping them to become responsive, engaged and supremely equipped for a successful future, blending high-quality business and technology delivery with a dedication to exceptional client experience. Behind this commitment is a dedicated employee-first strategy, built around our organisation's core values. We are proud to be a multi award-winning workplace, most notably recognised by Best Companies as #1 Best Company To Work For in the UK, Tech and the South East in 2023.

Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You'll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

• Associate Business Analyst

Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MULTIVERSE GROUP LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000279896.

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Closes on Friday 31 January

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