Decouple the actions

Yup. This is correct. One thing that tripped many translation systems was the lack of grammar tenses in Chinese. In English, every verb has to have a tense, it's unavoidable. Not so in Chinese, you have to get the tense (past, present, future) from the surrounding context.

Another thing that especially trips documentation writers is passive voice. It's rarely used in Chinese, unless talking about something serious ("he was hit by a car" type serious). A sentence like "once a job is processed" is difficult to translate word-for-word.