Senior Financial Analyst

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The Royal Caribbean Group has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Senior Financial Analyst reporting to the Senior Manager, Finance Ecommerce & Technology Investment.

Position is onsite and based in Miami, FL 

The Senior Financial Analyst role includes forecasting, planning, reporting, and accounting for the Growth & Digital organization. 

The role will collaborate closely with operational leaders/management to handle operational budgets, responsible for creating and delivering financial reports that enable timely decision-making and are compliant with RCG’s policies and procedures. Maintaining and developing when needed, effective financial processes and controls is critical.

The role will coordinate with many levels within the organization to gather, analyze, and summarize relevant information to create/maintain budgets, forecasts, and strategic plans. It is important that the role maintain continuous contact with operating groups to stay current with business developments and incorporate changes into forecasts and plans.

The role involves performing financial activities including cost planning, cost estimates, financial analyses, cost reduction initiative tracking, monthly detailed accounting entries, and forecasting of organization costs. 

The candidate must have a broad background in industry, best practices and performance metrics, as well as financial and accounting acumen.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepare monthly journal entries for referenced activity, in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
• Perform forecasting and accounting for specific organization costs including variance analyses. 
• Own operating expense governance routines for assigned cost centers/organizations including detailed variance analyses to plans/forecasts, spend reviews with management, run rate monitoring, and early identification of cost risks. 
• Establish and monitor operating expense guardrails and thresholds; proactively escalate emerging risks and recommend corrective actions.
• Re-design/develop reporting, as needed, to accommodate operational requests and provide guidance to meet or exceed financial goals.
• Analyze month-end variances and submit explanations timely to management and accounting/finance organization.  Provide detailed monthly, quarterly, and YoY analyses on operating plan performance.
• Improve financial status/awareness by analyzing results, monitoring variances, identifying trends, and recommending actions to management. 
• Develop and prepare financial models, presenting and analyzing financial data in current status and what-if scenarios.
• Work collaboratively with various teams to ensure contract renewals and invoice payments are completed timely.
• Review and approve requisition/purchase orders and AP workflows (Oracle) for proper coding and budget funding confirmation.
• Review agreements to determine accounting treatment and ensure terms meet company guidelines/initiatives including cash flow metrics. 
• Partner with spend/product owners and Supply Chain organization to review/analyze contract details, review business cases including challenge assumptions, provide recommendations, identify structural cost opportunities, and drive sustainable cost management. 
• Formulate efficient research plans for analyzing large amounts of data and presenting conclusions and recommendations.
• Special projects involvement/ownership, as assigned.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting. 

• CPA/MBA preferred. 

• Minimum 3-5 years related work experience. 

• Experience applying finance and accounting principles.  

• Experience with U.S. GAAP adherence required. 

• Technology-related finance/accounting experience highly preferred. 

• Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley controls and testing. 
• Experience with Oracle applications & Essbase/EPM is highly preferred. 
• Must have excellent interpersonal, organization, verbal & written communication skills.  Working with team/function members across all levels within an organization. 
• Advanced analytical skill set including critical thinking. 
• Advanced Microsoft Excel, Word, & PowerPoint.   
• Advanced analytical skills should include mathematical modeling; broad exposure to operations research, and statistics is a plus. 
• Must be detail-oriented. 
• Must be able to work under tight timelines, prioritizing assignments as needed. 
• Must work independently with tasks assigned. 

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!

The position is not eligible for work authorization sponsorship. 

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.