Reporting Manager-Rail projects

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Company Description Work with Us. Change the World. At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us. Job Description Start here. Grow here. At AECOM , we are seeking an experienced Reporting Manager – Rail Projects to join our Dublin team and play a pivotal role in strengthening programme performance, governance, and reporting. This is a key leadership position supporting the Head of Performance and Reporting, with responsibility for establishing and managing a robust, programme-wide reporting function. You will ensure that high-quality, reliable, and timely information is available to support effective decision-making at project, programme, and senior leadership levels. The successful candidate will lead a team of reporting professionals and work collaboratively with project controls, finance, risk, delivery, and other programme functions. You will bring together complex performance information, transform data into meaningful insight, and ensure reporting is consistent, transparent, and aligned with strategic objectives. A key focus of the role will be driving continuous improvement across reporting processes, systems, governance, and data quality, while promoting the effective use of business intelligence and digital reporting tools to support successful rail programme delivery. What you’ll do Lead the programme reporting function, establishing effective processes, standards, and governance for the collection, validation, analysis, and presentation of project and programme performance information. Develop and maintain reporting tools, templates, and methodologies that provide consistent, accurate, and efficient capture of project status and performance data. Manage the reporting cycle, coordinating the preparation, quality assurance, review, and distribution of weekly, monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc performance reports. Own the programme reporting calendar, ensuring all reporting requirements, milestones, submissions, and stakeholder reviews are clearly defined and delivered on time. Support the development and continuous improvement of the performance reporting framework, ensuring it remains aligned with programme objectives, governance requirements, and stakeholder needs. Lead, mentor, and develop a team of reporting analysts and engineers, establishing a high-performance culture focused on quality, collaboration, accountability, and professional development. Oversee the production of programme-level dashboards, reports, and management information, translating complex data into clear and actionable performance insights for senior internal and external stakeholders. Work collaboratively across programme functions, including project controls, commercial, finance, risk, planning, engineering, and delivery teams, to ensure information is integrated, consistent, and reliable. Establish, monitor, and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) that provide meaningful insight into programme progress, delivery performance, strategic objectives, and key milestones. Strengthen data quality and reporting assurance, identifying gaps, inconsistencies, and emerging issues and implementing appropriate controls and corrective actions. Promote transparency and evidence-based decision-making, ensuring reporting provides a clear view of programme performance, trends, risks, opportunities, and areas requiring management attention. Champion the use of business intelligence and digital reporting solutions, identifying opportunities to automate, streamline, and enhance reporting capability. Ensure reporting practices comply with programme governance, quality standards, contractual and regulatory requirements, and recognised industry best practice. Drive continuous improvement, regularly reviewing reporting processes and stakeholder requirements to improve efficiency, usability, consistency, and the overall value of management information. Qualifications Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Here’s what we’re looking for: As the successful candidate, you will have experience working within our primary infrastructure market along with having the following qualfications and experience: Experience specialising in project performance reporting, with a strong record of delivering reporting activities on major infrastructure programmes or projects of comparable scale and complexity. Experience should include proficiency with key reporting tools and applications such as Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), Business Intelligence platforms (e.g., Tableau, Power BI), cost management systems, financial management systems, and recognised industry publishing tools. Candidates should also have substantial expertise in data visualisation and analytical techniques, enabling the production of clear, insightful, and decision‑ready reporting outputs. Additional Information Interested in the role or curious about life at AECOM? Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to explore our AECOM voices, employee stories, latest projects, and much more! For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Colum Calnan #AECOM#Rail#Reorting#Metro At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment. About AECOM AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM. Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed. You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients. AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too. Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours. We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.