Senior Financial Analyst, Newbuild

Position Summary

This role offers the chance to work in a highly dynamic and innovative environment by providing critical financial support to RCG’s cutting-edge Newbuild and Innovation Organization.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead the financial management and cost tracking of several complex ship budgets, covering both shipyard and non-yard expenses.
• Serves as primary financial contact for the project team.
• Organize and conduct meetings with key project and operational leaders to review budget status, monitor scope commitments, and escalate potential risks promptly.
• Maintain and continuously update all financial trackers and budget documents to reflect the most current forecasts.
• Oversee the identification, tracking, and management of risk items, ensuring items are addressed in each financial meeting with the project teams.
• Aid in the creation of financial presentations for monthly project team meetings, Newbuild executive meetings, and Executive Committee meetings.
• Update the monthly capex file, managing the forecasting process for assigned ship(s), and providing variance explanations to the Capital Planning team.
• Aid in the overhaul of the financial processes around Project Budgeting, risk monitoring and reporting, change order process and management reporting.
• Collaborate with newbuild stakeholders and the Business Excellence team to implement a comprehensive change management process.
• Support the standardization process for initial newbuild budget creation and change order management.
• Participate in the consolidations and automation of reporting across the entire NB portfolio inclusive of Newbuild, Fleet Mod and G&A disciplines.
• Build a Power BI dashboard to provide newbuild and executive committee members with up-to-date project cost and risk tracking.
• Support quarterly internal and external audit processes by preparing and providing required financial data.
• Financial Control of Vessel Construction costs, Revitalizations and projects.
• The active portfolio is approximately $30B on a rolling 5-year cycle.
• Aids in all ad-hoc financial analysis request within the department.
• Perform other duties as required to support Transformation Hub objectives.

Qualifications, Knowledge And Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance or in a technical field at a minimum; or significant and recent direct experience in FP&A role.
• Experience working with complex capital projects example: industrial construction projects.
• Excel and financial modeling required, proficiency with Microsoft package.
• Working knowledge in Business Intelligence Visualization tools such as PowerBI or Tableau.
• 4-6 years related experience.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and be able to work effectively with all levels of operational personnel.
• Ability to think independently and explain complex solutions in a simple manner.
• Positive attitude with proven history of success in project analysis, tracking & implementation.
• Ability to ask critical questions and translate business unit opportunities into clear financial models.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to multi-task and manage competing priorities with confidence and composure.
• Ability to succeed in a team environment.
• Ability to share information and work in a standardized environment.
• Understanding of accounting processes, procedure and internal controls.