Brief Description: 

The Reporting & Insights (R&I) Partner is the senior functional authority for performance insight across R&D & Technical Operations, responsible for transforming financial and operational data into prioritised, decision-shaping insights across R&D projects, manufacturing operations, and cost structures. 

The role operates with significant professional discretion to determine which performance questions are elevated, how KPIs and scenarios are interpreted, and how insight is framed for senior leadership.  

The R&I Partner brings together outputs across project portfolio spend, manufacturing and operational cost drivers, creating a single, coherent view of function performance. 

This role sits at the centre of the FP&A operating model—connecting multiple specialist teams focusing on integrated insight, rather than standalone reporting. 

Through rigorous analysis, scenario modelling, and structured interpretation, the role enables high-quality decision-making across R&D and Technical Operations. 

This role focuses on integrating and interpreting performance, rather than producing reporting outputs. 

​​Essential Functions/Responsibilities 

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​Insight Ownership & Prioritization  

• ​Own the end-to-end integration of performance across R&D and Technical Operations, determining which performance questions, risks and opportunities require analysis based on enterprise impact and leadership relevance. Exercise professional judgement where data, KPIs or forecasts are ambiguous, incomplete or conflicting, acting as the functional authority on interpretation and insight framing.  

• ​Prioritize competing insight demands across stakeholders, balancing urgency, materiality and enterprise value.  

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​Performance Analysis & Interpretation  

• ​Deliver function-wide performance insights translating financial and operational outcomes into clear drivers, trends and implications.  

• ​Partner with FBPs by providing rigorous analysis, scenario modelling and insight framing that enables effective judgement, narrative development and business recommendations.  

• ​Apply scenario analysis, sensitivity modelling and data-driven interpretation to assess trade-offs and inform leadership discussions.  

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​KPIs, Standards & Governance  

• ​Act as the functional authority for KPI interpretation, variance analysis and performance storytelling, ensuring consistency with enterprise standards while applying judgement to functional context. Own and govern functional KPI definitions and insight methodologies, ensuring comparability, consistency and decision-usefulness across the enterprise.  

• ​Drive consistent application of insight standards, narratives and analytical approaches across the function.  

• ​Drive best-in-class reporting and insight practices, ensuring outputs are clear, scalable and decision-ready. 

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​AI, Data & Reporting Innovation 

• ​Leverage modern data and technology capabilities to enhance insight delivery, including use of AI and advanced analytics to identify trends, anomalies, and drivers, improving efficiency and automation of reporting processes and enabling more forward-looking, predictive insight. 

• ​Contribute to the evolution of a Reporting Centre of Excellence (COE) by driving standardization and scalability of reporting and insight, shaping best practices in data usage and interpretation, and working with Data & Technology teams to enhance tools, automation, and models. 

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​Enterprise Risk, Opportunity & Impact  

• ​Identify, analyse and articulate material risks, opportunities and cross-functional dependencies, highlighting implications for enterprise performance and leadership decision-making.  

• ​Ensure emerging performance risks and opportunities are surfaced early and framed clearly enabling proactive intervention where required.  

• ​Recognize that failure to appropriately prioritize or interpret material insights may result in mis-informed decisions, delayed actions or adverse enterprise outcomes.  

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​Operating Model & Cross-Team Interfaces  

• ​Operate within the Global Finance model by leveraging outputs from Planning & Performance teams, without duplicating execution, validation or forecasting ownership. 

• ​Provide high quality functional insights, scenario analysis and performance interpretation to Corporate FP&A to support Executive Committee and Board materials.  

• ​Ensure alignment with Reporting & Analytics standards, contributing to their evolution as business complexity grows.  

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​Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities  

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• ​Extensive experience in FP&A, financial insights or analytical roles operating at senior or enterprise level.  

• ​Relevant financial or management qualification (e.g. MBA, qualified accountant or equivalent).  

• ​Experience in R&D, manufacturing, or operational finance environments strongly preferred. 

• ​Proven experience operating with significant professional discretion, influencing senior leaders through insight and interpretation rather than authority.  

• ​Strong analytical capability with demonstrated expertise in KPI interpretation, scenario modelling and complex dataset analysis.  

• ​Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complexity into executive-ready insights and narratives.  

• ​Experience working with enterprise financial systems (e.g. Oracle, SAP) and BI/dashboarding platforms. 

• ​Exposure to automation, advanced analytics, or AI-driven reporting approaches preferred.  

• ​Experience working in a Reporting Centre of Excellence model an advantage. 

• ​Willingness to travel internationally, including to headquarters in Dublin.