Senior Analyst, Finance

Job Description

Holland America Line has been exploring the world since 1873. Our ships offer innovative features and enriching experiences focused on destination exploration and personalized travel, inviting guests to savor the journey.

The Senior Analyst, Finance serves as the primary Finance business partner for IT cost centers, providing financial leadership across budgeting, forecasting, month‑end close, variance analysis, and long‑range planning. The role works closely with department leaders to ensure accurate financial reporting, identify risks and opportunities, manage supplier and labor expenses, and support informed business decisions. This role is responsible for developing actionable financial insights, maintaining financial integrity, and driving accountability for operating expense performance across Holland America Line and Seabourn.

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Operating Expense Financial Management & Governance

• Own end‑to‑end financial management of assigned operating expense budgets, cost centers, and functional areas across Holland America Line and Seabourn.
• Monitor spending against budget and forecast, identifying, analyzing, and resolving variances and financial discrepancies.
• Ensure alignment between operational activities, financial forecasts, and financial reporting systems.
• Proactively identify and mitigate financial risks related to spending trends, contract commitments, labor costs, and business assumptions.

Forecasting, Budgeting & Financial Planning

• Develop and maintain annual operating budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long‑range financial plans in partnership with business leaders.
• Manage planning and forecasting processes, ensuring alignment with business objectives and financial targets.
• Analyze variances between actuals, forecasts, prior forecasts, and budgets, providing clear insights into key drivers and trends.
• Monitor and communicate risks and opportunities impacting financial performance, recommending actions to improve forecast accuracy and budget adherence.

Financial Analysis & Business Decision Support

• Provide financial analysis and actionable recommendations to support operational, workforce, supplier, and investment‑related decisions.
• Evaluate spending trends, resource requirements, contract impacts, and cost‑saving opportunities to improve financial performance.
• Deliver executive‑level reporting and insights on operating results, financial risks, and opportunities to Finance and business leadership.
• Support scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and ad‑hoc financial evaluations to assess business and financial impacts.

Cross‑Functional Partnership & Process Improvement

• Serve as the primary Finance partner to business leaders, operational teams, Accounting, Procurement, Human Resources, and other key stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Accounting to support month‑end close activities, accruals, allocations, financial reporting, and issue resolution.
• Translate complex financial information into clear business insights to support decision‑making and accountability.
• Drive continuous improvement in forecasting, reporting, financial controls, dashboards, and planning processes to enhance efficiency and transparency.

Scope:
The Senior Analyst, Finance serves as the Finance owner for a portfolio of cost centers and operating budgets, partnering directly with Directors, Vice Presidents, Accounting, Procurement, and operational teams. The role operates with significant independence in managing forecast assumptions, analyzing financial performance, evaluating spending trends, identifying financial risks, and recommending corrective actions. The position is expected to challenge assumptions, ensure forecast accuracy, and provide executive‑ready financial reporting and commentary.

Typical challenges include: managing large supplier portfolios and contract spending; reconciling forecast assumptions against actual results; explaining complex variances to leadership; coordinating budget updates across multiple stakeholders; identifying offsets and mitigation plans for overspending areas; balancing…