Senior Analyst, Finance

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end financial management of assigned operating expense budgets, cost centers, and functional areas across Holland America Line and Seabourn.
• Monitor spending against budget and forecast, identifying, analyzing, and resolving variances and financial discrepancies.
• Ensure alignment between operational activities, financial forecasts, and financial reporting systems.
• Proactively identify and mitigate financial risks related to spending trends, contract commitments, labor costs, and business assumptions.
• Develop and maintain annual operating budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-range financial plans in partnership with business leaders.
• Manage planning and forecasting processes, ensuring alignment with business objectives and financial targets.
• Analyze variances between actuals, forecasts, prior forecasts, and budgets, providing clear insights into key drivers and trends.
• Monitor and communicate risks and opportunities impacting financial performance, recommending actions to improve forecast accuracy and budget adherence.
• Provide financial analysis and actionable recommendations to support operational, workforce, supplier, and investment-related decisions.
• Evaluate spending trends, resource requirements, contract impacts, and cost-saving opportunities to improve financial performance.
• Deliver executive-level reporting and insights on operating results, financial risks, and opportunities to Finance and business leadership.
• Support scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and ad hoc financial evaluations to assess business and financial impacts.
• Serve as the primary Finance partner to business leaders, operational teams, Accounting, Procurement, and other key stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Accounting to support month-end close activities, accruals, allocations, financial reporting, and issue resolution.
• Translate complex financial information into clear business insights to support decision-making and accountability.
• Drive continuous improvement in forecasting, reporting, financial controls, dashboards, and planning processes to enhance efficiency and transparency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field.
• Technical / Functional: Annual Operating Plans, forecasting, and financial planning; Month-end close support (including but not limited to accruals, allocations, or financial reporting).
• Knowledge of financial statements, cost center management, and expense analysis.
• Advanced Excel (required); experience with: Oracle / Hyperion / Essbase preferred, Power BI or similar reporting and visualization tools preferred.
• Strong analytical skills: Strong financial modeling, forecasting, and variance analysis; Ability to analyze and reconcile large datasets from multiple systems and identify key business drivers; Ability to independently investigate financial issues and develop practical, data-driven recommendations.
• Business Partnering: Ability to translate financial results, risks, and opportunities into clear and actionable insights for non-finance stakeholders; Ability to collaborate cross-functionally (Operations, Accounting, Procurement).
• Execution: Highly detail-oriented with strong data integrity focus; Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and forecast cycles simultaneously.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field.
• Technical / Functional: Annual Operating Plans, forecasting, and financial planning; Month-end close support (including but not limited to accruals, allocations, or financial reporting).
• Knowledge of financial statements, cost center management, and expense analysis.
• Advanced Excel (required); experience with: Oracle / Hyperion / Essbase preferred, Power BI or similar reporting and visualization tools preferred.
• Strong analytical skills: Strong financial modeling, forecasting, and variance analysis; Ability to analyze and reconcile large datasets from multiple systems and identify key business drivers; Ability to independently investigate financial issues and develop practical, data-driven recommendations.
• Business Partnering: Ability to translate financial results, risks, and opportunities into clear and actionable insights for non-finance stakeholders; Ability to collaborate cross-functionally (Operations, Accounting, Procurement).
• Execution: Highly detail-oriented with strong data integrity focus; Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and forecast cycles simultaneously.