Senior Analyst, Capital Management and Strategy

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The Royal Caribbean Group’s Corporate and Capital Planning Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full-time Senior Analyst, Capital Planning reporting to the Manager of Capital Planning.

This position works on-site in Miami, Florida.

Position Summary:

The Senior Analyst,Capital Planning is ahighly analytical,strategic and operationalrolesupporting the company’s long-term capital asset strategy and the end-to-end capital expenditure process. This role ensures alignment with the company's strategic objectives by building comprehensive capital forecasts,underwriting and evaluating investment cases, and supporting systems for tracking, reporting, and optimizing capital projects.

The Senior Analyst will serve as atrusted analytical resourceforleadershipandbusiness partners, driving informed investment decisions across the organization.

This personis responsible for theintake and diligence of capital projects, as well as reporting and post-mortemreviewsof projects in progress. Additionally, the position willplay a hands-onrole inthe change management and transformation of theERP for Capital Planning,which is an entirely new system for tracking, forecasting, and reporting on capital projects and spend. Lastly, the Senior Analyst will be involved inad hoc analysis and reporting assignments.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Utilize financial modeling and scenario analysis to evaluate investment opportunities, support multi-year budget planning, and ensure alignment with strategic goals.
• Monitor and evaluate KPIs related to capital projects’ financial and non-financial performance. Prepare comprehensive monthly and quarterly reports for senior executives.
• Support the entire capital expenditure process - from project submission and approval to execution and monitoring. Help design and maintain milestone tracking systems in collaboration with project managers.
• Coordinate bi-weekly Capital Committee meetings and work closely with Corporate Officers to provide analysis, reporting and recommendations of both current and future Capital projects toexecutivemanagement.
• Manage the Capital Acquisition Request (CAR) process, including administration of theERPplatform, ensuring seamless electronic approvals and project tracking.
  
  Support system enhancements and the implementation of new ERP modules related to capital planning.
• Evaluate the capitalization and budgeting of all Capital Appropriation Requests and conduct periodic reviewsof these projects.
• Underwrite and pressure-test business cases submitted by project sponsors—building and reviewing ROI,NPV,IRR, and payback analyses and stress-testing key assumptions to ensure capital is allocated to the highest-return opportunities.
• Work closely with Operating Groups, Accounting, Finance, External Partners, and IT teams to ensure accuracy in capital forecasting, capitalization policies, and project reporting.
• Liaise with Business Groups and Accounting to compile quarterly CIP confirmations and proper application of capitalization policies.
• Perform targeted analyses and develop recommendations to support strategic initiatives, financial goals, and process improvements.
• Synthesize complex data into actionable insightsandexplain or translate these insights to executives.
• Support monitoring and management of $20+ billion of upcoming capital expenditures over the next 5 years.
• Performs other duties as required.

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