Senior Financial Analyst, Hotel Operations & Onboard Revenue

Senior Financial Analyst, Hotel Operations & Onboard Revenue

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The Royal Caribbean Group has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Senior Financial Analyst, Hotel Operations & Onboard Revenue reporting to the Lead, Finance Onboard Revenue .

Position is onsite and based in Miami, FL

Support all aspects of financial and administrative support functions including planning, reporting and business analysis for the Hotel Operations and Onboard Revenue shipboard and shoreside. Effective communication of this information to Senior Management and the respective operational groups is critical to the success of this position.

Essential Duties and 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.
• Assist 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 intelligencemodels, 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…