Analyst, Financial

This position is based in Miami

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 Director of Finance & Contact Center Operations Analysis.

Position Summary

This is a chance for to take financial ownership of a significant budget inside RCLs Human Resources team.  The analyst will provide support to a broad range of enterprise-level support systems, including the shoreside HR function with the budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis of the HR G&A budget, the shipboard CAM budget, and both shipboard and shoreside benefit programs.  This person must coordinate with all levels of management to gather, analyze, and summarize relevant information to create budgets and forecasts and do ad-hoc analysis as needed to continuously improve Director, VP and SVP-level decision making in the HR department.  The analyst maintains continuous contact with operating groups, including the team in Manila, and keeps current on business developments and macroeconomic trends and incorporates any changes into the forecast.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepares annual budget and monthly forecasts for HR G&A accounts, in Miami, Manila and international.
• Analyzes month-end variances and submits explanations to accounting, as well as providing explanations to HR leadership.
• Prepares month-end journal entries, including re-classes, accruals and prepaid entries.
• Ensures cost controls are in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley, accounting and other company policies
• Supports vendor contract evaluations and facilitates timely and accurate invoice processing.
• Develops and maintains monthly financial reports for HR leadership and brand finance, to ensure visibility, transparency and adherence to budget
• Create dashboards in Microsoft BI for G&A reporting
• Performs ad-hoc analysis and presentations as needed.
• Performs other duties as required.  

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

• Bachelors degree in business, finance or in a technical field at a minimum
• Experience modeling complex financial or operational systems
• 1-3 years related experience 
• Experience operating in a dynamic business environment
• Strong understanding of business principles 
• Desire to learn and deliver business decision aids to operational leaders
• Demonstrated ability to apply critical thought to complex problems 
• Must have excellent interpersonal, organization, verbal & written communication skills.
• Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Must be detail oriented and able to apply critical thought to complex problems in order to identify optimal solutions.
• Must be able to work under tight timelines, prioritizing responsibilities as needed.
• Must work independently with minimal supervision.
• Proven ability to collaborate with peers and management; ability to work with all levels of an operational business area
• Accepts accountability and delivers results
• Must have ability to adapt to shifting priorities and align activities to meet organizational goals
• Prior experience with Essbase a plus
• Familiarity with Microsoft BI a plus

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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