Business Analyst Apprenticeship 2023

Your role at a glance

The L&G Apprentice programme has been designed to help you reach your potential. You will develop your skill set, gain valuable work experience and complete a fully funded professional qualification, all whilst earning a competitive salary with access to outstanding employee benefits.

With support every step of the way and access to core skills training, you will contribute to the success of a team and be supported by a dedicated line manager. As part of a cohort of apprentices, you will also have the opportunity to connect with your peers and colleagues though networking opportunities and social events.

Joining L&G is the beginning to a future that will be anything but familiar. So take a closer look, get involved, be curious and find out how we will enable you to be at your best no matter who you are.

Please note, we recruit on a rolling basis so the role may close earlier than advertised.

The start date for the programme will be September 2023.

What you'll be doing

Services the team perform include:

• Investigating a business situation (as-is)
• Recommending options or solutions to resolve a problem
• Defining business needs (requirements)
• Implementing a project or programme of change
• Modelling business processes to understand the business better and what the future state (to be) will look like.

As a business analyst, no project or programme is the same and no working day is the same, so if you like variety within a safe environment (e.g. industry standards, guidelines and best practice) and you love to ask questions to delve deeper and understand why something does (or doesn’t) work – then a career in business analysis is for you.

Join us on a 30 month programme in which you will complete a Level 3 Business Associate qualification followed by a Level 4 Business Analyst qualification s. You’ll receive on the job training and coaching from your line manager to help you gain the professional, personal, social, and methodical skills needed to succeed in a business analysis career. Practical on the job learning will include:

• Seeing, via shadowing, observation
• Assisting, via active participation and working with your team
• and lastly, “going solo” with support of your manger as your confidence and skills grow

Alongside this you’ll complete training workshops and assignments, delivered by a leading apprenticeship training provider. Combined, these will fully equip you to be successful in your role, with the knowledge and skills required to apply to real world business challenges.

During your apprenticeship you will:

• Support business analysts during the requirements elicitation process on projects by preparing for, attending and participating in workshops/meetings
• Investigate, explore and document current “as is” business processes and procedures, so we can identify how the business works today and what will need to change or be impacted by change
• Contribute to analysis planning and monitoring activities including defining roles and responsibilities of stakeholders and requirement approaches to ensure governance and quality is maintained
• Identify, evaluate and raise change issues, risks, assumptions and dependencies so we can understand how project deliverables may be impacted
• Propose solutions and make recommendations to stakeholders to shape any decisions that need to be made, requirements that need to be amended or processes that need to be improved
• Develop professional skills such as stakeholder analysis and management, requirements engineering, continuous improvement, investigation techniques, business process modelling
• Develop and enhance personal skills such as confidence, assertiveness, focus, adaptability, curiosity
• Develop methodical skills such as problem solving, creative thinking, time management
• apply the knowledge and skills that you’ve learnt from your training into the role
• Be part of a big team and develop your collaboration and listening skills
• Have the opportunity to meet and network with new colleagues within your team, but also across the wider organisation

What we're looking for

To qualify for the programme, you will need:

• GCSE Maths grade C/4 or equivalent
• GCSE English grade C/4 or equivalent
• Minimum 96 UCAS points from your Level 3 Qualifications e.g. A 'levels or equivalent
• To not currently be on a government funded training course, e.g. on apprenticeship
• To not have a degree as this is a career starter programme
• The right to work in the UK and have lived in the UK or EEA for the past 3 consecutive years.

Bringing out the best in you

We believe that good businesses are built on doing the right thing and strive to do what is best for both our people and our customers. This means enabling you to bring your best self to work by giving you what you need, when you need it.

This is why we’ve designed a process that puts you in control, because we recognise that your time is valuable. At each step, make sure you take time to pause and reflect before progressing to the next, as each subsequent step will ask for a bit more of your time.

We want you to feel comfortable that this process is as fair and inclusive as possible, so please let us know if you have an illness or disability that you think may affect your performance during the process, so that reasonable adjustments can be made.

At each step we’ll give more information and clear instructions on what actions you need to take and how you can prepare. You’ll be assessed at each of these steps.

In brief, our assessment stages process will include:

• CV Application:

This will be reviewed to ensure you meet the basic requirements for the role, we do not require work experience for entry level roles and understand that C.Vs may not have huge amounts of detail at this stage of your career

• Video Interview:

This will take approximately 20minutes, we will ask some questions that will help us understand your motivation for L&G and the Apprenticeship we are offering

• Assessment Centre:

Comprised of a competency-based interview, group activity and an individual work based activity

• Provisional Offer subject to enrolment:

If you are successful in the assessment centre, you'll receive a provisional job offer, the final step will be for you to enrol on the training course. Once this is complete, we can officially offer you the job!

Benefits

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, at least 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave.

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.