Director, Finance Fuel

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Royal Caribbean Group’s Global Marine Operations (GMO) Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Director, Finance Fuel reporting to the AVP, Global Marine Operations Finance.

This position will work onsite in Miami, Florida

Position Summary:

In this position, you would be responsible for all forecast and analysis regarding Fuel Consumption, Fuel Expense and Hedging plans. You would monitor global energy markets, maintain short term and long-range fuel expense models, provide weekly updates to the CFO, GMO Leaders, Corporate Planning and Brand Finance Leaders on projected fuel expense and value of fuel hedge portfolio.

You would need to apply analytical and data-driven techniques to measure and forecast the company’s Total Fuel Position and report the Fleet’s Operational Variances to upper-Management. In this position, you would lead strategic analytical activities that support the company’s fuel planning and business intelligence initiatives. With additional focus on the long-term market and emission regulations, you would also lead updates on Global Sulfur IMO regulation, Strategic Deployment Model, Long Range Consumption Plan and Green House Gases Model.

Additionally, you would need to possess in-depth financial and analytical expertise to establish yourself as a subject-matter expert (SME) in the Energy Management organization. This includes expertise in gathering business requirements, collecting, and storing relevant data, processing, and modelling the data, and providing the data-driven solution in an easy-to-understand format to our stakeholders. You would need to lead and manage a team of analysts to deliver the high-quality analytics and insights that drive decision making and strategic development to improve the effectiveness and accuracy of the company’s Fuel Consumption, Expense, and Hedging Plans. You would also collaborate with all areas of Supply Chain and provide guidance on the most effective mode of supply globally for the project needs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Managing and Assisting with the Development of the Fuel Consumption, Expense and Hedging Plan for Royal Caribbean Group’s brands: Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea Cruises. Engage with each Brands’ Finance Department and generate accurate financial reports for Senior Executives to review on a weekly/monthly basis.

• Manage and Analyze the Fleet’s Operational Variances. Work closely and assist the Marine Operations, Corporate Planning, Accounting, Treasury, Decarbonization and Supply Chain departments with Bunker related operational explanations.

• Lead and Direct Frequent Ad Hoc Analysis / Updates requested by Upper Management. Provide guidance related to Bunker impact because of potential operational changes.

• Manage and assist in developing Annual Fuel Consumption Plan - By Leg and Voyage. Lead, review and have consistent alignment of Fuel Plan with Deployment and Onboard officers.

• Collaborate with Chief Engineers and Captains when leading energy optimization projects and fuel planning.

• Lead maintenance and updates related to ship specific fuel speed curves and fuel consumption mix required in the fuel planning process.

• Analyze fleet’s performance and report findings to marine operations to drive change throughout the organization; engage performance review with ship managers and fleet directors.

• Supervise and lead updates on Global Sulfur IMO regulation, Strategic Deployment Model, Long Range Consumption Plan and Green House Gas Plan.

• Oversee the design, development, and implementation of digital tools that allow business users to efficiently manage and optimize bunker expense.

• Supervise the maintenance and developmental enhancements of the existing Fuel Forecasting Management tool. Envision and guides new system features and functionality to make existing digital tools more efficient and user-friendly.

• Leverage analytical and technical tools and techniques to analyze data sets and develop custom models / solutions to uncover trends, patterns, and insights in the data.

• Automate data collection and mandate tasks that feed our internal forecasting tools and energy reports.

• Review communication and presentation material prepared by direct reports before submission to executives.

• Collaborate with deployment team on current and forward-looking assumptions, including a more detailed long-term blocking scheduled with proper fuel assumptions.

• Responsible for gathering data for yearly Carbon Disclosure reporting in conjunction with Environmental and ESG Team.

• Review and validate deployment Data integrity - region changes, missing distances, discrepancies in speeds.

• Set AEP Scrubber utilization targets for weekly reporting to marine and executive leadership.

• Responsible for forecasting, analyzing, and tracking Carbon Intensity Indicators for the Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea Cruises brands.

• Responsible for consolidating and vetting all assumptions and inputs from all key departments in charge of decarbonization levers and have all inputs flow through the Fuel Plan out to 2030 across Forecast (Monthly Cadence), Plan and Long-Range Models (Quarterly+ Cadence).

• Responsible for EU Carbon tax forecasting, planning and long-range planning.

• Unique in that the effectiveness and success of this position depends significantly on the articulated support the Director, Finance Fuel defines and garners from all other functional leads within the organization.

• Ensure contractual integrity and compliance requirements.

• Serves as a strategic visionary on utilization of technology as an enabler for speed, control, efficiency, and cost control.

• Prepare and present formal project updates and presentations to Executives for all brands.

• Provide variance analysis reports to Accounting, Finance and Corporate Planning by brand on Volume, Fuel Mix, Rate, Swaps and Miscellaneous accounts.

• Perform sensitivity analysis based on forward looking speculation and scenarios.

• Review and validate new swaps trades and their impact to current plan along with data engineer.

• Responsible for consolidating Bunker Expense reporting for quarterly earnings call and other financial disclosures.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and/or Finance field. 

• Master’s degree preferred and 10 years’ experience.

• Minimum of 3-4 years of experience in a senior leadership role. 

• 8+ years of hands-on experience with Enterprise Financial applications and processes.

• Must be well organized, methodical and pay close attention to detail, possess strong estimating, planning and time management skills and demonstrate the proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously.

• Sound leadership skills to coach, mentor and motivate teams. Effective interpersonal skills with strong focus on building strategic client-based relationships and teamwork. Exceptional customer service orientation.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with exceptional follow-through practices.

• Excellent critical thinking, verbal, and written communications skills, with strong experience in communicating with senior managers and executives.

• Highly motivated, curious, collaborative, and innovative.

• Ability to display data visually, creating powerful presentations which effectively quantify and justify value created to both analytical and non-analytical audiences.

• Leads development of procurement and negotiation strategy based on multiple and often complex variables.

• Expert, in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

• Ability to write reports business correspondence, and procedure manuals.

• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, customers, and the general public.

• Ability to travel 15% of the time. 

Physical Demands:

• Desk job with some visits to the ships (domestic and international travel) as required.

• You may move about the office complex, may travel to other office locations, and may lift, push, pull or move 10 - 15 pounds.

• You would occasionally be required to walk to the dock, ascend and descend the vessel.

• You may regularly travel domestically or internationally.

• Visual requirements include distant, close and color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

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!

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