Senior Financial Analyst, Hotel Operations & Onboard Revenue

About the role

The Royal Caribbean Group is pleased to offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, and excellent career development opportunities, each offering unique ways to explore the world. The Senior Financial Analyst, Hotel Operations & Onboard Revenue is a full-time position based in Miami, FL.

Responsibilities

• Forecast and Planning responsibilities:
• Assist in the analysis of operating plan performance and provide forecasts that support organizational goals and objectives for certain cost centers.
• Perform Annual operating plan process including development of planning schedules, spreadsheet tools, and financial models.
• Develop and maintain robust demand and cost forecasting models (time series, regression, segmentation, etc).
• Integrate with external data sources to discover interesting trends.
• Leverage AI to develop revenue and cost optimization models.
• Partner with IT and BI Teams to build and optimize data pipelines and feedback loops into the models.
• Create and maintain accurate and real time management reports and analysis including quick turn-around of ad-hoc financial analysis in a dynamic environment.
• Perform and communicate weekly tracking of actuals with updates to Hotel Operations management. Highlight outliers and drivers.
• Prepare and present hotel financials to Hotel Operations management. Communicate progress towards corporate objectives and provide detailed variance analysis of monthly results.
• Accounting responsibilities:
• Maintain and ensure cost controls are in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley, accounting and other company policies.
• Prepare journal entries related to assigned functional responsibilities (reclasses, accruals and other month-end entries to be submitted to accounting).
• Support vendor evaluations and facilitates payment approvals and invoice processing.
• Other Responsibilities:
• Provide support to ship managers and shipboard staff with inquiries related to their budgets (hotel and Onboard revenue).
• Cross train as back-ups for other staff in the case of emergencies.
• Support special projects/requests as determined by Hotel Operations Management and/or Finance Management.
• Research and resolve Business Unit(s) inquiries for assigned functional areas.
• Perform other duties as required.
• Aid in the development of annual operating plans, forecasts for hotel and onboard revenue.
• Develop detail variance explanations to plan and forecast for CFO variance analysis review of onboard revenue and operations expenses.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in finance and/or Accounting, and MBA preferred.
• 3 years Financial Analysis and/or Accounting experience.
• Knowledge and extensive experience in accounting and/or other financial/analytical systems (i.e. JD Edwards, Hyperion, Essbase, Excel).
• Must be able to fully integrate into Royal Caribbean shoreside and shipboard culture.
• Skills to proactively manage hotel expenses and onboard revenue, support financial discipline, and ensure meeting or exceeding Hotel department financial targets and controls.
• Strong analytical & computer skills, written and verbal communication skills, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with artificial intelligence models, database and analytical programming skills (including SAS and SQL, etc.)
• Ability to assimilate ideas/concepts into data driven models and strategies.
• Working knowledge of associated financial software and communication packages.
• Ability to adapt quickly and learn new tasks independently.
• Ability to succeed in a team environment.
• Excellent organization skills Ability to manage competing priorities.

Pay

Competitive compensation and benefits package.

Schedule

Full time position based in Miami, FL.