Analyst, Priv Dest Financial

This position is based in our Miami 1050 Building

Journey with us! Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our incredible team of employees at Royal Caribbean Group. We are proud to offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, and excellent career development opportunities, each offering unique ways to explore the world.

We are proud to be the vacation-industry leader with global brands — including Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises and Silversea Cruises — the most innovative fleet and private destinations, and the best people. Together, we are dedicated to turning the vacation of a lifetime into a lifetime of vacations for our guests.

Royal Caribbean team has an exciting career opportunity for a full-time Financial Analyst reporting to the Private Destinations Finance Analyst.

Position Summary

The Analyst, Finance, Private Destinations functions as an integral part of the Royal Caribbean Finance department supporting the Private Destinations team.  The Financial Analyst will support both shoreside and destination-based management teams in effectively managing their financial performance. This role is responsible for coordinating with all levels of management to gather, analyze, and summarize financial data to support the development of budgets, forecasts, and financial reports. The analyst will maintain ongoing communication with operational teams to stay informed on business developments and trends, ensuring timely and accurate financial insights.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly forecasts and annual budgets for assigned expense and revenue accounts related to private destination operations
• Analyze monthly financial results, identify variances, and provide detailed explanations to the accounting team
• Prepare and post month-end journal entries, including accruals, reclasses, and prepaid adjustments
• Develop and maintain financial reports and dashboards for operational and executive leadership
• Support the month-end close process by ensuring timely and accurate financial entries
• Conduct ad-hoc financial analysis and prepare presentations to support strategic decision-making
• Collaborate with accounting and operations teams to ensure alignment between financial data and operational performance
• Perform other accounting and finance-related duties as assigned
• Creates and maintains accurate and real time management reports and analysis including quick turn-around of ad-hoc financial analysis in a dynamic environment.
• Maintains and ensures cost controls are following Sarbanes Oxley, accounting, and other company policies.
• Liaises with Accounting, Corporate Planning and Risk Management on forecast updates, planning, month end closing and other requests. 
• Assist in the development of annual operating plans, forecasts for Private Destinations expenses analysis.
• Prepare reclasses, accruals and other month-end entries to be submitted to accounting. Develop detailed variance explanations to plan and forecast for variance analysis review of operations expenses.

This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employee will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or management.

Qualifications, Knowledge & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting
• Two to four years of financial experience including a strong background in business/financial planning & analysis skills
• Master’s Degree in Business / Finance preferred
• Understanding of U.S. GAAP adherence required.
• Must have excellent interpersonal, organizational, analytical and computer modeling skills
• Must be detail oriented to ensure accuracy in analysis
• Must be able to fully integrate into Royal Caribbean shoreside and shipboard culture.
• Must have strong command of Microsoft Office programs, particularly Excel
• Prior experience with Essbase a plus
• Must be able to work independently

Physical Requirement

The physical demands described here are representative of those requirements employees must meet to perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodations. While performing job functions the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, write, review and type reports, compile data, operate a pc, communicate, listen, and assess information. The employee may move about the office complex, may travel to other office locations and may lift, push, pull or move 10 - 15 pounds. Visual requirements include distant, close and color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions

Miami based position with some travel. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodations. The environment includes office locations, and/or moving inside/outside the office.

We know there's a lot to consider. 

As you go through the application process, our recruiters will be glad to provide guidance, and more relevant details to answer any additional questions. Thank you again for your interest in Royal Caribbean Group. We'll hope to see you onboard soon!

It is the policy of the Company to ensure equal employment and promotion opportunity to qualified candidates without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, sexuality, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Royal Caribbean Group and each of its subsidiaries prohibit and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment.

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