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The Royal Caribbean Group's Celebrity Cruise Lines brand has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Financial Analyst reporting to the Director of Celebrity Finance.

This position works on-site in Miami, Florida

Position Summary:

Support all aspects of financial and administrative functions including planning, reporting, business analysis and capital expense budget oversight for the Hotel Operations department.

• Provide detailed monthly analysis on operating plan performance and provide forecast that support organizational goals and objectives.
• Support the Hotel Operations finance budget, plan and forecast.
• Creates and maintains accurate report and analysis for Hotel Expenses lines.
• Maintains and ensures that all cost controls are following Sarbanes Oxley, accounting and other company policies.
• Support vendor evaluations and facilitate payment approvals and invoice processing.
• Departmental Liaison to Accounting, Corporate Planning and Hotel Operations.
• Prepares and maintain the financial performance on a ship level.
• Organize and conduct meetings with key project and operational leaders to review budget status, 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.
• Aids in all ad-hoc financial analysis request within the department.
• Collaborate with the operational teams to produce accurate hotel forecasts, record and analyze actual performance and identify plan of action to address variances.
• Own the month-end closing process and ensure entries are calculated and recorded accurately.
• Work with Accounting to ensure financials are accurate and complete.
• Responsible for month-end and intra-month reporting of financial results to the operations team.
• Constantly improve reporting process and analytics.
• The analyst will work in different lines of the P&L, from food costs, crew expenses, entertainment, C&R to other miscellaneous. The position will rotate roles and responsibilities frequently to learn the structure of each P&L group. The expectation is that the person in the role eventually learns in depth the mechanics behind all lines.
• Participate in the development of annual operation plans, forecasts for hotel expenses.
• Prepare and/or oversee all reclasses, accruals and other month end entries to be submitted to accounting.
• Develop detail variance explanations to plan and forecast for variance analysis review of Hotel operations expenses.
• Performs other duties as required.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or related field required. MBA is a plus.
• 1 -2 years of work experience.
• Excel and financial modeling required, proficiency with Microsoft package.
• Working knowledge in Business Intelligence Visualization tools such as PowerBI or Tableau.
• 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.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to multi-task and manage competing priorities with confidence and composure.
• Ability to succeed in a team environment.
• Embrace cross training as back-up for other team members.
• Ability to share information and work in a standardized environment.
• Understanding of accounting processes, procedure and internal controls.