- GMFJ Reference
258305
- Wages
£26,000 p/a
- Hours
37.50 per week
- Date Posted
06/03/2025
- Start Date
01/09/2025
- Approx. Duration
15 Months
- Location
London
- Status
Now Taking Applications
- Sector
IT
- Opportunity Type
Higher Level 4
- Apprenticeship Standard
Business analyst (ST0117)
- Employer
M&G Investments
Description
The Role:
We are looking for a highly motivated apprentice who is interested in working in Financial Services and wishes to pursue a career as a Business Analyst within Investment & Operations Change.
The role of the Business Analyst involves identifying and analysing business problems and opportunities, and then designing solutions that can help organizations achieve their goals. Business analysts work closely with various departments, including management, Investments, Technology and others to understand their needs and gather requirements.
This role would be aligned to the public markets project portfolio which broadly means working on the delivery of projects related to investments which can be traded on the stock market, as opposed to investments in real estate or private markets for example. Current projects include setting M&G up to lend billions of pounds worth of investments to the market, addressing issues and challenges in our performance calculation and reporting process, changing the way we trade certain currencies, and enabling one of our overseas offices to buy and sell new types of investments.
These projects can have a variety of outcomes including making more revenue for the firm, cutting costs, enhancing our capability or simplifying how we operate. Ultimately we are looking to make M&G work more efficiently, ensure that we are competing fairly and honestly through adhering to the rules set up by the regulator and most importantly helping us give a better service our customers.
Key Responsibilities for this role:
The role forms part of the Public Markets team within Investments and Operations Change. The role of the team is to help understand emerging business needs and drive forward enhancements and improvements in how we operate across the asset management business. The team plays a key role in evolving the business, staying competitive and efficient.
A Business Analyst Apprentice will support a wide range of initiatives across the team and will get involved in gathering data, producing pieces of analysis, inputting into business cases for new developments, support the adoption of new technology and work with the wider business to deliver change. You will be expected to :
- Work alongside other team members to understand current business issues, performing data gathering, as required, to provide additional insights and help identify solutions.
- Document and record elements of current process by shadowing existing users, reading of appropriate documentation to effectively understand how the process that is going to be replaced works.
- Help prepare for workshops, engaging the attendees and ensuring the set up (room etc.).
- Attend and capture notes at key meetings.
- Support the write up of requirements (what users require the new system to deliver).
- Support and document solution design, inputting into relevant templates to allow approval by governance forums.
- When required, help develop a test approach and test the new system and ensure that it works according to the specification.
- Support the senior BA, the project manager and the programme manager as directed to ensure successful delivery of team initiatives.
For more information about this vacancy please contact BPP Professional Apprenticeships on 01133 500 333 (Ref ID: 258305)
- To be competent with computers and technically minded with the ability to learn software skills such as MS Excel, Power BI, JIRA and Visio.
- Ability to build good relationships internally and externally
- Confident and effective communicator (both written and verbal)
- Passionate about being in a work environment that embraces and values diversity.
- Attention to detail to support high-quality compilation of user documentation.
- Proven and demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Good organisational and prioritisation skills with a keen attention to detail.
A minimum of five GCSEs grade A – C (9 – 4 on the new grading system), and A Level 3 qualification achieved by one of the following: A levels, NVQ/SVQ Level 3, or a BTEC National
As a Change Services Business Analyst Apprentice with M&G, you will undertake the Level 4 Business Analyst Apprenticeship. The apprenticeship will be delivered through a blend of live online learning, pre-recorded lectures, and face to face inductions and masterclasses
- We are looking for a confident individual with a positive outlook, can-do attitude, and aspiration to want to progress. It’s important that the candidate has genuine curiosity and inquisitive nature about whatever they are working on – someone who can ask questions about a topic and reflect and consider and sometimes challenge what thy have been told. It’s important to be able to identify when statements are incorrect or when solutions may not work for any given reason.
- We are looking for someone that looks at problems and situations differently – how can this be done better?
- The successful applicant will have powerful desire to learn and a genuine interest in business, technology, and the financial services industry.
- Applicants who succeed with us are self-motivated, capable of building and maintaining relationships and work effectively as part of a team.
Upon completion of the apprenticeship, there may be opportunities for career progression within our Technology and Business Change team or other relevant departments based on performance, business needs, and available opportunities. If recruited into a permanent role, the individual will follow the career progression applicable to the specific role/department.
We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality or disability we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.