Sr. Financial Data and Systems Analyst

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The Royal Caribbean Group’s Royal Caribbean International brand has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Sr. Financial Data and Systems Analyst on the Finance Team reporting to the Director, Corporate Planning.

This position works on-site in Miami, Florida

Position Summary:

• As Senior Analyst, you join a team responsible for the managing, administering, enhancing and training of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) technologies within FP&A that will deliver leading finance practices to achieve business goals. 
• As an EPM leader, you will partner with finance leaders to drive value throughout the organization by optimizing our financial processes, enhancing decision-making capabilities, and driving our business's financial success. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• EPM Solution: Lead the design, configuration, maintenance, day-to-day operation, and implementation of EPM solutions to meet the organization's financial reporting and analysis needs. Participate in vendor analysis and selection. 
• Financial Transformation: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for financial process improvement and transformation initiatives. 
• Requirements Gathering: Work closely with business stakeholders to understand their financial reporting requirements and translate them into EPM system specifications. 
• Data Integration: Manage data integration efforts to ensure seamless data flow between EPM systems and other financial applications and databases. 
• Training and Documentation: Develop training materials and provide training sessions to end-users to ensure efficient utilization of EPM tools. 
• Quality Assurance: Conduct thorough testing and quality assurance to ensure the accuracy and reliability of EPM reports and data. 
• Troubleshooting: Investigate and resolve technical issues, system errors, and user inquiries related to EPM systems. 
• Best Practices: Stay current with industry best practices and emerging trends in EPM and financial analytics to provide recommendations for continuous improvement. 
• Project Management: Provide accurate estimates of effort, help manage project timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure successful EPM system implementations. Communicates updates and escalates issues which may affect project success. 
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of EPM system configurations, processes, integrations, and workflows. 
• Application Ownership: Continuously monitor and optimize EPM systems to enhance performance, usability, and reliability. 
• Continuous Improvement: Manage the ongoing vendor releases and work closely with business partners to ensure timely testing, issue resolution and release to the production environment. 

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills:

• BS Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Finance, Accounting, or other related technical discipline 
• Certification in relevant Oracle technologies and EPM systems is a plus 
• Certifications in relevant Finance and Accounting disciplines is a plus 
• 5+ years’ experience leading implementations for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems 
• 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems 
• Functional domain knowledge in Finance: operating models and supporting organization structures, reporting, analysis, and process best practices 
• EPM software experience such as Oracle Cloud EPM, Hyperion, JDE, Oracle Fusion and similar platforms. 
• Knowledge of data extraction/integration tools such as Oracle Integration Cloud, BICC, Visual Builder, Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud 
• 2+ years of Microsoft Power BI experience 
• Understanding of Forecasting, Data cleansing and Transformations, Dashboards, KPIs 
• Power BI Pro, Embedded Power Bi 
• Power BI Content packs, templates, integrations, and security 
• Strong understanding of SQL and DAX 
• Experience working with databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, and AS400 
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions to technical teams and business users across multiple levels of the organization 
• Work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business challenges from strategy to execution 
• Disrupt, continuously improve, scale efficiencies, and evolve ways of working 
• Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive as well as the ability to promote and encourage others to value difference when working in diverse teams 

• Ability to work independently to implement solutions with minimal guidance and communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders. 

 Physical Demands:

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 personal computer, communicate, listen, book in our booking system 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 and at times handle material up to 40 pounds.
• Visual requirement includes 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!

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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