Senior Financial Analyst, Newbuild

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The Royal Caribbean Group has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Senior Financial Analyst for Newbuild reporting to the Manager of Finance.
This position works on-site in Miami, Florida
Position Summary:
This role offers the chance to work in a highly dynamic and innovative environment by providing critical financial support to RCG's cutting-edge Newbuild and Innovation Organization.
The finance team is responsible for actively managing costs of the newbuild portfolio approximately $30B on a rolling 5-year cycle related to current and future projects. The finance team supports the Newbuild Organization by providing support to its operational and strategic processes and plays a critical role in fostering strong relationships with the shipyards.
The finance team collaborates closely with the project and operational leaders to manage the project financials, risk, and opportunities. Additionally, the finance team is responsible for maintaining effective financial processes and controls across projects and creating and delivering effective financial reports that enable timely decision making and are compliant with RCG's procedures.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the financial management and cost tracking of several complex ship budgets, covering both shipyard and non-yard expenses.
• Serves as primary financial contact for the project team.
• Organize and conduct meetings with key project and operational leaders to review budget status, monitor scope commitments, and escalate potential risks promptly.
• Maintain and continuously update all financial trackers and budget documents to reflect the most current forecasts.
• Oversee the identification, tracking, and management of risk items, ensuring items are addressed in each financial meeting with the project teams.
• Assist the Lead/Finance Manager in creating financial presentations for monthly project team meetings, Newbuild executive meetings, and Executive Committee meetings.
• Update the monthly capex file, managing the forecasting process for assigned ship(s), and providing variance explanations to the Capital Planning team.
• Assist with the overhaul of the financial processes around Project Budgeting, risk monitoring and reporting, change order process and management reporting.
• Collaborate with newbuild stakeholders and the Business Excellence team to implement a comprehensive change management process.
• Support the standardization process for initial newbuild budget creation and change order management.
• Participate in the consolidations and automation of reporting across the entire NB portfolio inclusive of Newbuild, Fleet Mod and G&A disciplines.
• Build a Power BI dashboard to provide newbuild and executive committee members with up-to-date project cost and risk tracking. Candidate will continuously enhance the dashboard as needed.

• Support quarterly internal and external audit processes by preparing and providing required financial data.
• Financial Control of Vessel Construction costs, Revitalizations and projects. The active portfolio is approximately $30B on a rolling 5-year cycle.
• Aids in all ad-hoc financial analysis request within the department.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance or in a technical field at a minimum; or significant and recent direct experience in FP&A role.
• Experience working with complex capital projects example: industrial construction projects
• Excel and financial modeling required, proficiency with Microsoft package.
• Working knowledge in Business Intelligence Visualization tools such as PowerBI or Tableau.
• 4-6 years related experience.
• Candidate must have strong written and oral communication skills and be able to work effectively with all levels of operational personnel.
• Must have the ability to think independently and explain complex solutions in a simple manner.
• Positive attitude with proven history of success in project analysis, tracking & implementation.
• Ability to ask critical questions and translate business unit opportunities into clear financial models.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to multi-task and manage competing priorities with confidence and composure.
• Ability to succeed in a team environment.
• Ability to share information and work in a standardized environment.
• Understanding of accounting processes, procedure and internal controls.

We know there's a lot to consider. As you go through the application process, our recruiters will be glad to provide guidance, and more relevant details to answer any additional questions. Thank you again for your interest in Royal Caribbean Group. We'll hope to see you onboard soon!
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