AVP, Technology Finance

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The AVP, Technology Finance serves as the senior finance leader supporting Royal Caribbean Group’s Technology organization and key enterprise transformation initiatives. The role provides strategic financial leadership across a technology operating expense and capital investment portfolio over $0.5B spanning digital, data, AI, cybersecurity, enterprise platforms, and technology modernization initiatives. This role sits within the finance organization and will also be a member of the extended technology leadership team, sitting with technology leaders across the enterprise.

The individual will partner closely with all Technology operating leaders:
Digital, Data, AI, Cybersecurity, Product, and Enterprise Transformation leaders to shape investment decisions, optimize resource allocation, and ensure technology investments deliver measurable business value. The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in technology finance, portfolio management, cloud and SaaS economics, and value realization. Beyond traditional FP&A leadership, this individual will serve as a strategic thought partner to executive leadership, helping evaluate trade-offs, measure the capital investments’ value, and drive better business outcomes across the enterprise technology portfolio.

The AVP leads a Technology Finance organization of more than 20 professionals and is responsible for developing talent while ensuring the delivery of financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and decision-support capabilities that enable the organization to execute its strategic priorities.

• Serve as the primary finance thought partner to Technology leadership, bringing fact-based insight to strategy and investment decisions across the technology operating and capital investment portfolio spanning all enterprise platforms.
• Partner with Technology, Digital, Data & AI, Cybersecurity, Product, and Enterprise Transformation leaders to evaluate strategic opportunities, investments, and resource allocation decisions.
• Provide an independent financial perspective and challenge assumptions to improve decision quality and ensure alignment with enterprise objectives.
• Translate complex technology initiatives into clear business implications, financial outcomes, and executive-level recommendations.
• Assess and communicate the financial trade-offs across competing investments, balancing growth, risk, operational efficiency, and long-term value creation.
• Bring external technology finance best practices and industry perspectives to improve decision-making, governance, and organizational effectiveness.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on value of emerging technologies, operating model changes, and strategic transformation initiatives.
• Lead the financial strategy, prioritization, and portfolio management of enterprise technology investments, ensuring resources are allocated to initiatives that deliver the greatest strategic and financial value.
• Develop and oversee frameworks that improve transparency, prioritization, and decision-making across the technology investment portfolio.
• Partner with Technology leadership to measure investment costs and value KPIs across cloud, AI, digital, data, cybersecurity, enterprise systems, and transformation initiatives.
• Lead financial evaluation of business cases, funding requests, and strategic technology investments to ensure alignment with enterprise priorities and expected returns.
• Advise on capital allocation decisions, balancing near-term business needs with long-term technology modernization, innovation, and growth objectives.
• Partner with Technology and Procurement leaders on significant vendor, software licensing, managed services, and build-versus-buy decisions.
• Establish disciplined portfolio management processes, including investment reviews, stage-gate funding assessments, and executive decision support.

• Establish financial transparency and accountability mechanisms that enable leadership to evaluate investment performance, measure outcomes, and make informed portfolio decisions.
• Develop a comprehensive view of the technology asset and investment portfolio as well as the financial and operational levers to optimize returns of the portfolio, including resource allocation, cloud and SaaS…