Finance & Markets
Business Analyst (BA)
A Business Analyst is the translator between what a business needs and what the tech team builds. This course teaches you to elicit and document requirements, model processes, write clear specifications, and work with stakeholders and developers. It's a career-focused programme with the tools, templates and communication skills that land BA roles.
- Duration
- 1.5 mths
- Format
- Live 1-on-1
- Level
- Professional
- Certificate
- Osian
What this course is about
Business Analyst (BA) training helps you turn an unclear business request into a shared, testable understanding. In live 1-on-1 online classes, your teacher guides you through stakeholder questions, requirement elicitation, process discovery and structured documentation. You practise listening for the real problem behind a requested feature, using examples from banking, retail, education and service operations. This business analyst course online suits graduates, domain specialists, working professionals and people returning to office-based careers.
Core work includes business requirement documents, functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, process maps and basic data flow diagrams. You learn to use clear scope boundaries, assumptions, dependencies and traceability, with exposure to tools such as Jira, Confluence, Excel and draw.io or similar diagramming software. Agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, stakeholder meetings and change conversations are rehearsed through role-play, so communication is treated as a working skill.
A guided case study can follow a service from customer request to fulfilment, capturing current-state pain points, a future-state process and measurable acceptance checks. You also practise presenting findings and responding when two stakeholders want different outcomes. This BA course differs from a project management programme because the centre is discovery, analysis and requirements, not schedule ownership. Flexible sessions help professionals apply the methods to their own industry context.
What you’ll be able to do
- Elicit requirements through focused stakeholder conversations
- Document business, functional and non-functional needs
- Map current and future processes with clear boundaries
- Write user stories and testable acceptance criteria
- Trace changes, assumptions, risks and dependencies
- Present analysis findings to varied stakeholders
How the course flows
- 1Market FoundationsWeek 1
How markets and instruments actually work.
- 2AnalysisWeek 2
Technical and fundamental analysis basics.
- 3Strategy & RiskWeek 3
Building a plan and managing risk properly.
- 4Tools & PlatformsWeek 4
Using real trading and analysis platforms.
- 5Applied PracticeWeeks 5–6
Putting it together on realistic cases.
Tools you’ll use
- Trading platforms
- Charting tools
- Excel
- Market data
Who this course is for
- Graduates entering business analysis roles
- Domain experts moving from operations into IT projects
- Project coordinators strengthening requirement skills
- Working professionals seeking a structured career change
- People returning to work after a professional break
Roles this opens up
- Junior Business Analyst
Support discovery meetings, requirement documents and process analysis for delivery teams.
- Requirements Analyst
Translate stakeholder needs into traceable requirements and acceptance conversations.
- Process Improvement Associate
Study workflows, identify friction and help teams describe practical improvements.
Before you enrol
Neither is mandatory for learning the core methods, although domain knowledge and comfort with structured thinking are valuable. The course explains technical terms without assuming that you are a programmer.
Exercises include requirement documents, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, process maps and simple data flow diagrams. The teacher explains when each format helps a stakeholder or delivery team.
Jira, Confluence, Excel and a diagramming tool such as draw.io can be used to make the workflow familiar. The lasting skill is clear analysis, so the methods are not tied to one software licence.
Yes, one-on-one practice can simulate vague requests, conflicting priorities and late changes. Feedback focuses on probing questions, neutral language, scope clarity and recording decisions.
Business analysis concentrates on discovering, modelling and validating needs, while project management focuses on planning, coordination, risks and delivery control. Real teams connect both responsibilities, but the core outputs are different.
A service case study can include stakeholder notes, a current-state map, future-state proposal, user stories and acceptance checks. You should remove private organisational information and present the reasoning behind each artefact.