Financial Business Analyst Career Programme

The Pairview difference

Pairview is a specialist provider of career services and technical and management training. We concentrate on targeting the industry sectors where there are known skills-shortages, immediately putting you in demand. Our career path programmes produce highly talented individuals equipped to tackle the employment market.  We ensure that you get access to the very best career opportunities that your newly acquired and in-demand skills command.

Financial Business Analysis – greatly rewarding career opportunities

Today, there are 8,157 financial business analysis related job vacancies available throughout the UK that pay in the range £40,000 – £65,000+ per annum. 29% of them have not been filled for over 2 months and more than 90 new related jobs are advertised every day. (Source: Indeed, ITJobsWatch)

Pairview’s unique pathway to break into this great career

Pairview’s Financial Business (FB) Analyst programme will enable you to obtain the required skills and experience to secure one of these hugely in-demand roles. This program is the senior level of the Financial Information Analysis programme with which graduates can demand an average salary of £45,000 per annum. It is mostly suitable for candidates from accounting and finance backgrounds. You will be trained to become a technical, hands-on data analyst with skills in database management, investigative analysis and report automation. You will develop abilities to identify trends, patterns and relationships within key metrics, present findings and actionable recommendations based on real business evidence. Your skills are regularly in high demand both within the finance world and other traditional non-finance sectors as a database or information analyst. It is advisable that you have attained advanced stages of study towards ACCA, CIMA and enjoy numerate problem solving to take this program. You will be taught SQL relational database management with SQL server 2012® and learn to write VBA codes to automate routine reports within an organisation.

On top of being equipped with the technical and knowledge-based skills in this programme, you will gain hands-on experience through our Work Experience Project, which will allow you to work on sample business scenarios and problems in sample businesses. You will receive the Work Experience Project at the end of the programme. The Work Experience Project is a 30-day project, and during this time your trainers will be available to help you through your project one week after your project starts, and one week before your project submission date.

In order to enable you to be found in employer’s CV searches, we provide CV Surgery sessions to help you create your perfect CV that will help you get job offers for suitable roles. The CV surgery session is a 4-hour group session which you can join either online or on-site. Finally, when you get an interview, Pairview consultants will guide you through interview questions and provide insight into how to promote your skills and experiences. The Interview Prep session is a 4-hour group session to which you can join either online or on-site.

Your roadmap to career success in Financial Business Analysis

1.       Microsoft Excel 2013 Core and Advanced Essentials | 2 days

• You will attain:
• Quick tips to improve spreadsheet formatting, functionality, data searching and calculations among large data sets within Microsoft Excel
• An introduction to data analysis, reporting tools, data manipulation and searching
• An insight into simple automation of tasks using macros

2.       Advanced Microsoft Excel with Visual Basic Application | 1 day

• You will be able to:
• Understand methods of data management through powerful VBA tools
• Create, store and run your macros & VBA, including working with procedures & functions, understanding objects and using expressions, variables & intrinsic functions
• Develop macros to simplify workbook practices
• Use VBA statements within Microsoft Excel actions
• Debug within the Visual Basic Editor
• Maintain and improve the existing codes
• Design interactive interfaces with form controls

3.       Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and T-SQL Programming | 2 days

• You will learn how to:
• Write SELECT queries
• Query multiple tables
• Use window ranking, offset and aggregate functions
• Use built-in functions
• Use set operators
• Query SQL Server metadata
• Use table expressions
• Sort and filter data
• Program with T-SQL

• Improve query performance

4.       Financial Information Reporting | 2 days

• You will be able to:
• Produce spreadsheets more quickly
• Generate re-usable Format
• Carry out calculations more efficiently
• Set up a ‘ready to print’ spreadsheet
• Add flexibility to models using Logical statement and Switches
• Identify trends, patterns and relationships within key metrics,
• Present findings and actionable recommendations based on real business evidence

5.       Business Analysis – Requirements Engineering | 2 days

• You will be able to:
• Define project scope and vision
• Discover requirements
• Conduct elicitation interviews
• Run workshops with stakeholders
• Analyse requirements
• Document functional and non-functional requirements
• Model with UML use case diagrams
• Interpret UML class diagrams
• Validate requirements

• Manage changing requirements

6.       Business Analysis – Business Processes Modelling | 2 days

• You will be able to:
• Understand the Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN)
• Understand staff performance issues and challenge the business rules
• Analyse the work flows
• Understand and implement organisational design & skills profiling
• Identify and model core business processes at the organisational level and process level.
• Identify the events that trigger the business processes
• Identify the outcomes from the business processes
• Model the actors, tasks and process flows that comprise a business process
• Identify the performance measures applied within a business process analyse and improve business processes

7.       Hands-on Work Experience Project | 30 days

8.       CV Surgery | 1 day

9.       Project Support | 1 day

10.   Project Presentation | 1 day

11.   Interview Preparation | 1 day

You must have a degree in finance or accounting. It is advisable that you have attained advanced stages of study towards ACCA, CIMA and enjoy numerate problem solving to take this program.

Basic working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Windows operating systems.

Financial Business Analyst