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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 part of RWS's Generate - Content Technology division, specialising in legal and regulatory technology solutions. For over 20 years, Propylon has supported governments, parliaments, and regulated organisations in managing legislation and complex document workflows through innovative software, including its LWB360 platform.
As part of the wider Content Technology division, Propylon contributes to building structured content and knowledge solutions that power enterprise systems and AI applications at global scale.
Joining Propylon means working at the intersection of technology, law, and digital transformation, in a collaborative, people-focused environment with strong opportunities to grow your skills while delivering meaningful, real-world impact.
Job Purpose
Propylon has an exciting opportunity for a Junior Business Analyst to join our team working across major client projects. The candidate will be a recent graduate in the legal, political science or public policy area.
The successful candidate will work closely with clients and internal teams to ensure that document workflow software solutions are designed, specified, and implemented successfully. relationships.
This role contributes to the specification, design, and implementation of LWB360 solutions, ensuring requirements are translated into actionable development tasks and delivered effectively.
This position is for a current vacancy, and the employer intends to fill this position by September 2026.
Job Overview
Responsibilities:

• 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 Propylon's suite of products
• Actively participating in workshops with key stakeholders and takes ownership of assigned requirement gathering activities
• Building an excellent relationship with all stakeholders and own peers
• Documenting Functional Specifications and working closely with the Business Analysts and Senior Business Analysts to support the solution design and ensure successful implementation of customer requirements
• Understanding and effectively participating in the core processes of the team such as client workshop facilitation, analysis, planning, business design documentation, testing etc.
• Working with the client and internal project team members to identify and resolve technical issues
• Displaying an understanding of all features, functionality and logic of the Propylon products relevant to assigned projects
• Performing internal demonstrations, displaying a good understanding of system functionality following training and upskilling activities
• Actively participating in presentations and demonstrations to existing clients
• Writing clear manual test scripts ensuring that all functionality introduced and impacted by the software development team is accurately covered
• Following a plan to execute assigned test cases and create clear defect tickets for the technical team to work on when required

Requirements:

• Law, Political Science, Public Policy, Business Administration or IT degree
• Experience of writing report documents
• Ability to self-start and work in pressured environment with deadlines
• Good technical knowledge and skills
• 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:

• Client facing experience
• Experience with Office-style applications e.g. ability to create macros, spreadsheet formulae etc.
• Experience with database reporting tools

Personal Attributes:

• Wants to be part of a team that is committed to delivering high quality innovative products.
• Wants to be part of a culture that is committed to sharing and enhancing the knowledge of the wider team supporting team wide learning and success
• Have a curious mindset - about what you do, the technology you use and how you connect with others to deliver products that we are proud to deliver to our clients.

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.
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