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Organisations who wish to deliver change successfully realise that they need people who have the skills to support the delivery of business change initiatives across their organisation.

Business Analyst is an advisory role that provides a critical layer of challenge and scrutiny for organisations who wish to deliver change successfully.

Business Analyst enables organisations to “do the right thing.” The role embodies early and regular investigation and analysis that ensures the right solution is chosen to meet the required business need.

Given the risk of solutions failing to meet organisational needs, it is crucial that Business Analyst is undertaken before projects are initiated. Pre-project analysis ensures that there is a thorough and shared understanding of the ‘root cause’ of any problem or opportunity being addressed, and that various options are considered and the most effective is chosen.

Therefore, Business Analyst is a multi-faceted role and practitioners have the ability to investigate business situations, identify and evaluate options for improvement and define the features required by organisations.

The main focus of the Business Analyst role is to model business processes and to facilitate, coordinate and document detailed business requirements regarding the business change agenda.

Business Analysts will determine and present solutions on how information systems can be used to improve operational efficiency and support acceptance testing to ensure that the proposed solution meets the defined requirements.

Our Business Analyst apprenticeship is not only for a dedicated Business Analyst role, it is adaptable to be powerful for individuals in multi-faceted roles such as Team Leaders, Transformation and Change Managers, IT teams or Operational people.

Learning Objectives

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

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This opportunity is only available to business owners, managers and team leaders looking to upskill their staff. If you are unemployed or exploring new career options, you can start your apprenticeship journey by sending your CV to: info@360apprenticeships.co.uk

For apprentices aged 16-21 the training costs are fully funded by the government. For apprentices aged over 21, there is a 5% co-investment which would be paid by the employer. Alternatively, the training costs can be covered by utilising the Apprenticeship Levy Fund.

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