Business Analyst Apprenticeship
Your future career, after completion
Advance by Analytics
What is Advance by Analytics?
We’ve re-imagined our data & analyst apprenticeship programmes, thinking bigger, and using the apprenticeship opportunity to deliver change. We have added new features, new team members, new tools, optional qualifications, and real-world insight that allows apprentices to drive your data & analytics vision and be at the heart of your organisation’s journey towards superior performance.
The programmes are based on existing, fundable apprenticeship standards but have been enhanced, and can now be tailored to include 3rd party vendor qualifications, workshops, private events with insight and updates from our analytics specialists.
Interested in becoming a Business Analyst apprentice? Find all the information you need below…
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- What is the role of a Business Analyst Apprentice with Agile project management?
- What's the cost & will I be paid?
- What are the entry requirements?
- What technical knowledge will I learn?
- What qualifications will I gain?
- What skills will I develop?
- What is included in the Business Analyst apprenticeship with Agile project management?
- What happens after completion?
What is the role of a Business Analyst Apprentice with Agile project management?
This apprenticeship’s core occupational deliverables include, but are not limited to: documenting business problems, modelling business processes, creating solution requirements and managing stakeholder relationships. Apprentices will be provided with support to develop their behaviour and attitudes to succeed in an evolving workplace environment.
If you enjoy analytical thinking and problem-solving then the Business Analyst apprenticeship could be for you. The roles you might expect to be applying for after your 15-18 month Business Analyst apprenticeship are: IS Business Analyst, IT Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, and many others.
Virtual classroom training
It is a statutory requirement that 20% of an apprentice’s working hours are allocated to training. A proportion of this time will be spent attending training workshops, with the rest made up by independent learning, guided distance learning and tutor sessions in the workplace. For Business Analyst Level 4 apprentices, relevant training workshops will be placed between the apprentice and their mentor & tutor, according to individual need. Workshops will be delivered virtually by Zoom or Microsoft Teams and can be attended in any order. They will be delivered on the following topics:
Workshop 1
Understanding Stakeholders
Duration: Monday – Thursday 9.30am – 4.30pm
- Understanding stakeholder identification and stakeholder analysis
- Working with personas
- Developing knowledge of effective communication
- Elicit requirements
- Feature engineering
- Prioritisation
- Propose an audience
Workshop 2
Agile Project Management
Duration: Monday – Thursday 9.30am – 4.30pm
- What is Agile working?
- What is project management?
- Principle and philosophy
- Understanding the project management lifecycle
- Learning roles & responsibilities
- Techniques
- Planning
- Developing an awareness of risk & issues
- Governance
- Business case
- Deployment
Workshop 3
Business Process Modelling
Duration: Monday – Thursday 9.30am – 4.30pm
- Learning investigative techniques
- Developing knowledge of process modelling
- Gap analysis
- What, where, why, who, when (how)
- Model analysis & improvement
- Acquiring knowledge of process modelling techniques
Workshop 4
Data-driven culture
Duration: Monday – Thursday 9.30am – 4.30pm
- Developing knowledge of data sources
- Enhancing knowledge of data collection
- Understanding the process of data normalisation
- Understanding data visualisation & analysis
- Data driven decision
- Data in the process model
Optional certifications
(Apprentices do not need to take these optional certification exams to complete the apprenticeship.)
The following optional certification exams may be taken following workshop learning with NowSkills. Apprentices must have completed all 4 workshops to have the knowledge to take the exams.
Exams are delivered virtually, but are not fundable under the Levy or Digital Apprenticeship Service, and employers will be invoiced separately, please contact use for details.
- APMG AgilePM Foundation
- APMG AgileBA Foundations & Practitioner
- BCS Business Analyst Foundation
What's the cost of a Business Analyst apprenticeship & will I be paid?
As a Business Analyst apprentice, you will NOT pay anything towards your apprenticeship.
You can find out more about your investment and wages here >>
Entry requirements to become a Business Analyst apprentice
Individual employers will set the selection criteria.
Apprentices must have:
- The right to work in the UK
- Lived in the UK continuously for the past 3 years
- GCSE English and maths at grade 4 or above (or equivalent)
- Relevant qualifications and or work experience at a lower level
- A demonstratable enthusiasm to work as a Business Analyst-NowSkills
requires that apprentices provide work or evidence that shows that they are
passionate about all things business analysis
Having a passion for IT will help Business Analyst apprentices gain the most out of their apprenticeship programme.
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What technical knowledge will I learn as a Business Analyst with Agile project management apprentice?
- The importance of business analysis in facilitating business improvement and implementing IT system modifications
- The job of the Business Analyst and how it interacts with other positions on a business change initiative, such as those in charge of system development.
- Life cycles of business change and system development, including the use of relevant approaches and the impact of organisational culture and context.
- The principles, characteristics, and distinctions between waterfall and agile approaches for project delivery and software development.
- The significance of good communication and involvement with a variety of stakeholders in connection to Business Analysis tasks.
- Methods for categorising, validating, and prioritising needs
- The significance of requirements management, which includes change management.
- A wide range of non-functional needs and the relevance of including them in the requirements engineering process.
What qualifications will I gain?
- Level 4 Business Analysis Apprenticeship, awarded by the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education
What skills will I develop?
- Logical and creative thinking skills to help solve business change challenges
- Applying appropriate approaches to scoping, planning and performing Business Analysis
- Communicating effectively in a variety of situations with a range of stakeholders
- Applying a range of structured investigation techniques to a business situation
- Producing an outline definition of a business situation using an appropriate technique
- Identifying problems and opportunities within a business situation using appropriate techniques
- Supporting the identification and presentation of proposed actions to stakeholders to gain agreement for further analysis activity
- Maintaining a productive, professional, and secure working environment within relevant
organisational and also legislative requirements
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What's included in the Business Analyst apprenticeship with Agile project management?
Included: Induction
Within the first month, all apprentices and employers will receive a thorough induction to the apprenticeship training program from a dedicated NowSkills tutor. This will involve:
- “Workplace Health, Safety & Wellbeing Assessment”,
- Completion of enrolment documentation
- The signing of the “Commitment Statement” and an “Apprenticeship Agreement”.
- The completion of initial assessments/diagnostics for English and maths
- Agreeing the Professional Development Plan (POP), which will detail: The sequencing and content of learning key milestones (for submitting portfolio evidence, exams etc.)
- Details of how to access any online learning platforms arrangements for safeguarding
- Inductions usually take a working day to complete dependent on the individual apprentice and employer
Included: Ongoing Professional Development
Apprentices will be guided by a NowSkills tutor and their workplace mentor, throughout the duration of the infrastructure technician apprenticeship. For a level 3 apprentice this must equate to 1/2 a working day for every week they aren’t attending training in centre, and will likely consist of:
- Mentoring sessions with the nominated employer mentor
- Training in the workplace, relevant to the standard
- Producing/collating evidence for the apprentice’s summerative portfolio
- Work shadowing
- Industry visits
- Attendance at competitions
- Online learning
- Studying or researching
Included: Tutor 1:1s
These take place monthly, either at the workplace or live online with the tutor. The will involve:
- Coaching sessions, in areas of training need agreed with the tutor
- Professional Development Reviews (PDRs), which employers must partake in. These allow for a meaningful discussion between all 3x parties about the apprentice’s achievements, areas for improvement and progress made to date
- Updating of the Professional Development Plan (POP)
- Provision of ongoing careers education, information, advice & guidance
(CEIAG) - Feedback on an apprentice’s work
- English, maths, and wider digital skills development
- Support in understanding and applying: safeguarding; fundamental British values; health, safety, & wellbeing; and equality, diversity, and inclusion
In addition to tutor 1:1s, all apprentices and employers must also partake in a monthly Professional Development Review (PDR):
- A meaningful discussion about the apprentice’s achievements
- Identifying areas for improvements, and agreeing a consequent target plan
- Looking at progress made to date
Included: Gateway to End-Point Assessment
This is the period in which the decision is made whether the apprentice is ready to cross the threshold phase, from learning to the end-point assessment phase.
The EPA will be completed in a three-month period, beginning when the EPAO confirms that all gateway requirements have been met. At the gateway, any supporting documentation that supports an EPA assessment technique must be submitted.
Successful completion!
Congratulations! You will have completed your Business Analyst! You will have learned the skills, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours to embark on a rewarding IT & digital career.
What happens after I successfully complete the Business Analyst apprenticeship?
Upon successful completion of the Business Analyst Level 4 Apprenticeship, further progression opportunities are available:
- Promotion in the workplace, or a movement into a managerial role
- Study at a higher level of apprenticeship (dependent on occupation)
- Enrolling in a degree (full or part-time) or even a degree apprenticeship
- Continuing in the role, but undertaking additional, related qualifications to further development
NowSkills tutors and support staff are trained to advise you on the wide range of career options available after your apprenticeship. For many apprentices this may be continuing employment in a permanent with their apprenticeship employer; for others, it may be new education or career opportunities.
