Lead, Global Marine Operations - Capital

Lead, Global Marine Operations - Capital

The Royal Caribbean Group has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Lead, Global Marine Operations – Capital reporting to the Director, Marine Finance.

This role supports the Senior Manager, Finance Capitaland partners with leaders across Global Marine Operations (GMO) to deliver timely, accurate financial analysis and reporting for enterprise capital programs and initiatives. The position focuses on execution of planning, forecasting, governance deliverables, and performance reporting in alignment with Company policies and control requirements.

The Lead, GMO - Capital, supports the end-to-end capital planning and governance process for all three Brands – Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity and Silversea. This individual contributor helps coordinate portfolio inputs, maintains planning and reporting cadence, and prepares analyses that inform investment decisions and governance reviews. Core responsibilities include supporting the annual capital budget process; preparing capital submissions and tracking approvals;

maintaining forecasts for capital spend, depreciation, write-offs, and project-related operating impacts; and coordinating with cross-functional partners to resolve data gaps, track risks/opportunities, and ensure clear, audit-ready documentation. GMO Financial Management will provide specifics as to any brand-specific requirements that are different from or in addition to this core description.

• Support enterprise capital portfolio budgeting and forecasting by coordinating inputs, maintaining the annual planning calendar, consolidating marine investment requests, and preparing monthly outlooks on performance vs. plan.
• Support capital governance and approval processes by partnering with project teams to gather assumptions, build/refresh business case financials, coordinate reviews, and track decisions and required follow-ups.
• Prepare quarterly capital forecasts and scenario analyses by refreshing spend timing and in-service projections across open projects, calculating impacts to write-offs, and summarizing risks and trade-offs for leadership review.
• Support the quarterly in-service process and related SOX controls by coordinating required documentation, validating inputs, and ensuring timely completion of control steps and evidence retention.
• Maintain multi-year capital roadmap files and supporting analyses, including ROI summaries and strategic fit inputs, to enable portfolio review and allocation discussions.
• Coordinate portfolio management cadence with Project Owners by tracking execution status, surfacing schedule/cost/scope variances, and escalating issues with recommended data-driven options.
• Deliver analytics and decision support for priority initiatives by building models, validating assumptions, evaluating alternatives, and summarizing findings for stakeholder review.
• Prepare materials (presentations, briefs, and talking points) by translating analyses into clear summaries, key drivers, and decision considerations for leadership audiences.
• Ensure adherence to Company policies, financial controls, and reporting standards (SOX and other requirements) by following established processes, identifying gaps, and proposing improvements that increase transparency and efficiency.
• Provide ad hoc financial leadership and analysis as required, including rapid response support for emerging priorities and executive requests.
• Support the financial framework for capital investment decisions, including business cases, valuation approaches, and sensitivity/scenario analyses aligned to governance expectations.
• Prepare consolidated portfolio reporting and insights (monthly and quarterly), highlighting trends, risks, opportunities, and follow-up items for leadership review.
• Execute SOX and Company capital reporting requirements by maintaining audit-ready documentation, completing control evidence on schedule, and partnering with Accounting/Controls to resolve exceptions.

• Four-year Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Finance, Accounting, or…