Business Analyst

Job Purpose

About RWS

RWS is a global leader in content, translation, and intellectual property services. With more than 60 years of experience, RWS helps the world’s top brands grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere, in any language. The company combines proprietary technology with deep human expertise to deliver high-quality, compliant, and scalable solutions across industries such as life sciences, technology, finance, and legal.

About Propylon Propylon is the Dublin-based content‑management arm within the RWS group, specialising in software for legal and regulatory workflows. For more than 20 years, Propylon has helped governments, standard bodies and regulated organisations manage legislation, regulations and legal content in a smarter, modular way.

Joining Propylon means working in a people-led, innovation-driven environment recognised as one of Ireland’s Best Workplaces in Tech - while having the backbone and global reach of RWS. You’d be contributing to meaningful projects that shape law, compliance and global content workflows, with the support and flexibility to grow your skills and career.

Job Purpose

Propylon has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Business Analyst to join our innovative, software solutions business dedicated to driving digital transformation in the legal landscape.

The successful candidate will work within our Government Solutions Department, which supports software solutions built on Propylon’s core products for customers worldwide. The role is a client-facing role and will involve working directly with a number of Propylon’s clients. The role of Business Analyst at Propylon is suitable for someone with several years of experience as a Business Analyst, preferably in a client-facing role, with systems analysis and troubleshooting responsibilities. This role contributes to the implementation and support of document workflow software solutions in a client environment.

Job Overview

Responsibilities:

• Building an excellent relationship with all stakeholders and one's own peers. Being the point of contact to ensure blockers and issues are identified and resolved.
• Actively participating in presentations and demonstrations to both existing and potential clients.
• Identifying and recommending best practices to be used within the team of Business Analysts by bringing experience and learned lessons into the team.
• Creating an understanding and expertise of the client businesses to stay up to date with customer needs. Manage expectations through proactive and regular client communications with both formal and informal communication methods.
• Preparing, documenting and implementing activities for the deployment phase of each assigned project, including client training/demo sessions, user guide documentation and internal knowledge share
• Working with the client and internal project team members to identify and resolve technical issues.
• Creating clear defect tickets for the technical team to work.
• Monitoring and analyzing incoming support items from the client.
• Generating detailed weekly reports that are sent to project leadership.
• Working closely with the developers and client subject matter experts throughout the course of each project to ensure client requirements are fully understood and successfully delivered in the Propylon’s suite of products
• Participating in workshops with key stakeholders, including internal and external Senior Management, to gather business requirements that enable the creation of user stories and development tasks
• Documenting Functional Specifications and working closely with the Technical Lead and Senior Business Analysts to ensure our tools are aligned with ever-changing client requirements.
• Define, plan and execute manual test scripts to validate system functionality and ensure quality delivery.

Requirements:

• 4+ years’ experience in a technical Business Analyst role
• Computer Science, IT or Business Administration degree, or equivalent experience
• Strong business analysis skills and understanding of business requirements are a must
• Experience in writing Business Requirements and/or Functional Specification documents
• Client-facing experience
• Experience with the principles of SDLC
• Ability to understand and document complex document-centric workflows and to conceptualize them in IT terms
• Ability to self-start and work in a pressured environment with deadlines
• Good technical knowledge and skills
• Experience with software testing
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven decision-making capabilities
• Be personally well organized, presentable, and manage one’s own time effectively.

Nice to haves:

• Certified BA qualification
• Experience with Office-style applications, e.g. ability to create macros, spreadsheet formulas etc.
• Experience with Process Map Diagramming
• Experience with database reporting tools
• Experience working with JIRA
• Experience working in an agile team
• Advanced level experience with MS Word (bookmarks, styles, etc)

Life at RWS

Life at RWS - If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about growing the value of ideas, data and content by making sure organizations are understood, then you’ll love life at RWS.

Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career.

In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner, putting clients fist and winning together, to pioneer, innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage, to progress, aiming high and growing through actions and to deliver, owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients.

RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics.

RWS Values

Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as RWS.

Covid Vaccination - All RWS employees hired for positions that require working on-site at RWS offices, customer offices, travel on behalf of RWS, and/or in-person meetings will be required to comply with the RWS USA COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Policy. RWS complies with federal, state, and local laws regarding accommodations related to this policy.

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