Business Analyst Apprentice

Summary

Responsibilities include gathering and documenting requirements, facilitating communication between stakeholders and development teams, refinement of work to feed into sprint planning, tracking key performance indicators and ensuring that the final product meets user expectations.

Wage

£25,000 a year

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£25,000 - £28,000 per annum

Training course

Business analyst (level 4)

Hours

Monday to Friday, shifts between 8am - 5:30pm (e.g. 8am - 4pm or 9:30am - 5:30pm). This is a hybrid role.

37 hours a week

Start date

Wednesday 20 August 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

2

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

Process improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements within the ART through data analysis, focusing on increasing efficiency, reducing waste, and delivering higher value to the business. Create process models, diagrams and flowcharts to represent current and future state processes.
Requirements gathering: Collaborating with stakeholders to analyse and document business requirements and user stories to ensure alignment with business objectives and strategic goals. Ensure we have captured the desired business outcome and the key performance indicators that tell us what good looks like. Convert business needs and requirements into detailed user stories, ensuring they are well-defined, prioritised, and include acceptance criteria. Collaborate with Product Owners to maintain a well-groomed product backlog. Coordination and communication between business users, members from their own team and enabling teams throughout the development process.
Data analysis: Analyse data using Lean Six Sigma methodologies to identify trends, patterns, and insights that can inform business decisions. Follow trends to ensure that the value stream makes continuous improvement and adds value to the business.
Support of Agile ways of working: Contributing to the continuous improvement of Agile processes and methodologies within the team or organisation. Actively participate in PI Planning sessions, helping to define features, clarify requirements and ensure that user stories are properly estimated and aligned with the program’s objectives.

Where you'll work

London Road
Stapeley
Nantwich
CW5 7JW

Training

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

College or training organisation

QA LIMITED

Your training course

Business analyst (level 4)

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What you'll learn

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

Why choose our Business Analyst Level 4 apprenticeship?

Our Business Analyst Level 4 apprenticeship develops learners to investigate information systems solutions and gain the know-how to improve operational efficiency for your organisation. The principles of data analytics are being applied across just about every industry. Using past-event data, business analysts are making important insight-based business decisions and driving customer value across every team and function, including operations, finance, sales and marketing.

QA’s Business Analyst Level 4 apprenticeship programme enables the apprentice to:

Become a change professional who helps organisations deliver business and digital change successfully.
Regularly investigate and analyse solutions to ensure the right one is chosen.
Experience a flexible learning journey using a blend of learning methodologies, including online learning, practical exercises, video content, coaching and workshops.

Tools and technologies learned: Apprentices will learn to use Unified Modeling Language (UML), Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), Data Modelling, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT & PESTLE.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

Degree in:

Business (grade Any)

Other in:

Similar subject (grade Level 3)

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

Other requirements

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About this company

Genus PLC is a world-leading animal genetics company. At the forefront of innovation in gene-editing, advanced reproductive biology, and other breakthrough breeding technologies, their R&D advances an agricultural practice thousands of years old – animal breeding. Their goal is to ensure the global food system continues to nurture healthy, productive animals that yield affordable, high-quality proteins for a sustainable future. They believe a more sustainable food system starts with better breeding and genetics.

Company benefits

• NFU pension scheme. • Comprehensive training, learning & development program for all employees. • Employee NHS cash top up health insurance scheme. • Employee assistance and mental health support programmes. • Life cover.

After this apprenticeship

90% of QA apprentices secure permanent employment after completing: this is 20% higher than the national average.

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