WTW

Difference makers

Begin your career with WTW where every step is an opportunity. Join a company with global scale and diverse perspective where you can deepen our collective insight, set the bar high and succeed your way.

Whichever early careers program you join, you’ll go into a role with real responsibilities, exposure to client assignments and the opportunity to build up valuable experience. With WTW behind you, you’ll learn and develop the skills to succeed in your chosen role. 

Where you means all of us

We’re proud of our culture and committed to making a real impact for our clients and colleagues. That’s why we constantly challenge ourselves to grow our inclusive culture and create a place where we’re bolder together. Our inclusion networks help us to live our values and our defined inclusion and diversity commitments improve and measure our progress. For you, this means joining a company where you can bring your whole self to work.

Your future in sharp focus

We leverage the global view and local expertise of our 48,000 colleagues serving 140 countries and markets to transform tomorrows. At WTW, you’ll tackle challenges with the help of a diverse, expert global team and identify strategic solutions that move us – and the world’s most powerful organizations – forward.

The Company

Willis Towers Watson is a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth. With roots dating to 1828, Willis Towers Watson has 40,000 employees in more than 130 countries. We design and deliver solutions that manage risk, optimise benefits, cultivate talent and expand the power of capital to protect and strengthen institutions and individuals. Our unique perspective allows us to see the critical intersections between talent, assets and ideas — the dynamic formula that drives business performance.

The Business

Affinity is a line of business within Risk & Broking that supports clients to develop revenues through targeted solutions that help reduce costs, create differentiation, and improve customer retention and satisfaction rates.

Contribute to enhancing solutions that enable the organisation to achieve its goals. Works with teams to help them understand and improve the effectiveness of their work. Supports the project and programme managers through all phases of the project lifecycle, from conceptual idea through to implementation and benefits realisation. 

The Role

2025 Level 4 Business Analyst Apprenticeship

Closing Date: 21st March 2025

Start date: 1^st September 2025

Location: Ipswich

This is an exciting opportunity to undertake an apprenticeship as a Level 4 Business Analyst apprenticeship and develop your career within a global team.

The chosen candidate will question, investigate, and ensure high standards; working alongside local and global members of staff, ensuring the team understand the technical solution and requirements fully, making changes where necessary, and ensuring issue and deadline communication is maintained.

Key Duties:

• Challenge and identify process improvements
• Design, develop, document and implement projects and business improvements
• Develop support and eLearning materials
• Support Development of Software Features
• Document current business processes and assist in development of options and recommendation for change
• Undertake requirements assessment with stakeholders to identify business and user needs
• Identify data requirements relating to business improvement
• Define acceptance criteria for business and system changes and support business acceptance
• Support demonstrations of new system functionality
• Support commercial teams during technical pre-sales discussions 
• Identify and evaluate business improvement opportunities
• Provide support and guidance through User Acceptance Testing, creation of test scripts, analyse and prioritisation of defects
• Help ensure projects are delivered within the agreed time, cost and quality parameters

Training & Qualifications

This Apprenticeship is an 16-month programme where you will be provided with on the job training and a highly competitive study support package. You will be fully supported by WTW and our official government approved Training Provider throughout the duration of the programme. 

The successful candidate will acquire a comprehensive skills et enabling them to:

• Investigate complex business situations
• Model intricate business processes and data flows
• Expertly gather and document requirements
• Conduction in-depth gap analyses
• Strategically address and mitigate risks
• Develop through impact assessments for organisational change initiatives

The Requirements:

The successful apprentice will have a interest in the world of Business Analytics and really want to develop their knowledge and understanding of key business concepts and techniques that help organisations transform.

• Level 3 in an STEM/Digital related subject (e.g. A Level, or BTEC Level 3)
• 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) in any subject at grade A-C including Maths and English
• IT literate 
• STEM subjects would be beneficial to your application
• Excellent communications skills written and verbal
• Ability to travel to the Ipswich office

You should not have an existing qualification at the same level or higher than this apprenticeship in a similar subject.

The Application Process

Stage 1: Online application, including CV Stage 

Stage 2: Online testing Stage 

Stage 3: Online assessment centre 

Stage 4: Offer and on-boarding

WTW is an equal opportunity employer

WTW believes that effectively managing a diverse workforce is vital to our business strategy. We have an obligation to our organisation, ourselves and our clients to hire and develop the best people we can find. We will continually review our policies and practices to ensure that all areas of the employment process (including recruiting, hiring, work assignments, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, company-sponsored development programs and overall workplace experience) are free from discriminatory practices. We are committed to equal employment opportunities at WTW.

Why work at WTW?

WTW offers a variety of benefits to support your physical, emotional and financial wellbeing, as well as help you develop in your career, and balance your life inside and outside of work. Among other things, these include WTW Work Flex, shared parental leave, a range of Learning & Development (L&D) opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package (which includes Private Medical Insurance and Life Insurance).

WTW Work Flex

At WTW, we see things differently. We understand flexibility is key to supporting an inclusive and diverse workforce and so we have a variety of different working arrangements which we call “WTW Work Flex”. We encourage colleagues and candidates to make requests for the types of flexible working arrangements that suit them.  Visit our career site for more information: https://careers.wtwco.com/wtw-work-flex/