Work Based Experience: A Business Analyst's Journey at Royal Bank of Scotland

Work Based Experience
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Table of Contents
Task 1.............................................................................................................................. 3
P1.1 –Research and evaluate suitable organisations that could provide industry
experience........................................................................................................................3
P1.2 – Negotiate with work and academic supervisors a proposal for the work
experience........................................................................................................................5
P1.3 – Recognise the business constraints on the work experience offered...................7
Task 2.............................................................................................................................. 8
P2.1 – Agree and prioritise the tasks and responsibilities involved in the work
experience........................................................................................................................8
P2.2- Produce a plan for the work experience.................................................................9
P2.3- Analyse the benefits of the proposed activities to the business and the learner. .11
Task 3............................................................................................................................ 13
P3.1- Learner is required to fulfil the specified requirements of placement conforming to
all related codes of practice........................................................................................... 13
P3.2- Learner is required to produces systematic records of the work undertaken.......14
P3.3- Learner is required to revise the initial plan as required.......................................17
P3.4– Learner is required to make suggestions for improvement and review these with
the supervisor.................................................................................................................18
Task 4............................................................................................................................ 19
P4.1– Learner is required to monitor progress against original proposal.......................19
P4.2– Learner is required to evaluate the quality of own performance..........................22
P4.3– Learner is required to analyse the learning, which has taken place during the
work experience using suitable reflections.....................................................................24
P4.4- Learner is required to make recommendations on how the experience could have
been enhanced.............................................................................................................. 24
Reference list................................................................................................................. 26
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Task 1
P1.1 –Research and evaluate suitable organisations that could provide industry
experience
Variables Apple Amazon Inc. Jefferies &
Company
Marriot
International
Royal Bank of
Scotland
Travel Yes Yes No No No
Salary
per year
£ 37000 £34000 £ 26000 £ 28000 £ 41000
Flexibility No No Yes Yes Yes
Kind of
job
Floor
Manager
Senior
Business
Analyst
Junior
Business
Analyst
Receptionist Business
Analyst
Technical
skills
expected
Both MS
Office and
SQL
Database
SQL
Database
and MS
Excel
Vivid
knowledge
on MS Office
Professional
appearance,
clean clothes,
language
proficiency
and MS
Office skills
Extreme
acquaintance
with Microsoft
Excel, Word
and share
market and
SQL Database
Soft skills
expected
Production
of
analytical
tools and
data entry
skills
Extensive
analytical
skills,
operational
excellence,
excellent
time
management
and process
Analysis of
management
information,
monitoring
and
controlling
market risks
and
developing
Politeness,
enthusiasm
and good
guest
relations
skills
Decisiveness,
documentation
skills, good
stakeholder
understanding,
effective
market
analysis skills
and good IQ
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streamlining strategies for
risk
management
level
Job
benefits
Equality
practiced
in the
workplace
Job growth,
talented
team and
comfortable
office
premises
Job growth
and flexible
work
opportunities
Equality and
availability of
flexible shifts
Rewards
based on
performance
and leave
benefits
Table 1: Suitable organizations
(Source: Created by the author)
Company Ratings Evidence
Amazon Inc. - 8.5/10 Amazon is one of the most reputed companies around the
globe and working in the company has been a real
pleasures. The offerings of the company are challenging
and there is excellent scope for growth in the company.
Royal Bank of Scotland
- 8.5/10
This company is another reputed company and a lot of
experience has been gathered during the tenure of service
in the organization. The rewards provided in the company
based on performance were the best part of working in the
company.
Jefferies & Company-
9/10
This company offered the most suitable job. All that I
wanted to learn for my career development has been learnt
from this job. The flexible work opportunities provided by it
has been the major benefit of working in the company.
Apple - 5/10 Apple is also a reputed company. However, the main issue
faced during the tenure of service in Apple is that the
company placed me in a team that was extremely non-
cooperative and I had to face various difficulties during the
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service.
Marriot International –
4/10
Since I was not interested in the job of a receptionist, I
never had much interest about this job.
Table 2: Ratings of companies
(Source: Created by the author)
P1.2 – Negotiate with work and academic supervisors a proposal for the work
experience
Aims &
Objectives
Outcomes Scope & Duration of time Resources
Creation of
a website
that can be
maintaining
and
providing
the latest
data for
business
and
analytics
regarding
the
company
 Website had
been
developed
 However,
there was
mismanagem
ent of data
and
information
 There was
misrepresenta
tion of
statistics as
well
This project was expected
to be completed within 6
months. However, it was
done within 4 months
itself.
 A team for project
management
 Internet services
 Computer systems
 JIRA
Name
Job Title Business Analyst
Duties and responsibilities  Developing deep understanding on
business functions
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 Documenting business requirements
 Establishment of agreements between
solution providers and clients
Soft skills  Motivation
 Hard working
 Communication skills
 Effective team development skills
Technical skills  JIRA
 MS Word
 MS Excel
 One Trust
 MS Access
 MS Project
 MS PowerPoint
Brief introduction of yourself I currently work as a business analyst and
have practical experience of working in
various renowned organizations. I possess
various hard as well as soft skills that will be
helping me in flourishing me in my career as
a business analyst and has been helping me
to collaborate and work efficiently with my
colleagues during the past. I believe in
having a positive outlook towards the work I
do and this will be guiding my professional
life throughout.
Reasons for work experience According to Lester (2013), the Maslow’s
needs hierarchy of needs theory states
various needs, which should be fulfilled for
workers for gaining job satisfaction and
security. My reason for working is the
satisfaction of my self-actualization needs. In
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