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The Royal Caribbean Group has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Financial Analyst - Newbuild reporting to the Manager, Finance.
This position will work on-site in Miami, Florida
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 and Innovation Organization by providing support to its operational and strategic processes and plays a critical role in fostering strong relationships with the shipyards.
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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.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead the financial management and cost tracking of the entire ship(s) budget, covering both shipyard and non-yard expenses.
- 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.
- Work closely with the international site office finance counterpart to keep the change order forecast current, finalize change orders, and manage the approval process for change order memos.
- Assist the Lead/Finance Manager in creating financial presentations for monthly project team meetings, Newbuild executive meetings, and Executive Committee meetings.
- Prepare and submit to Manager necessary journal entries to ensure compliance with company policies
- Partner with the Newbuild Finance team to update the monthly capex file, managing the forecasting process for assigned ship(s), and providing variance explanations to the Capital Planning team.
- Participate in calls with Owner's Supply Teams and IT departments monthly to ensure capex updates are accurately reflected in submissions.
- Track and report the impact of foreign exchange and hedging activities, working closely with treasury teams to monitor the latest ECA financing developments.
- Update and submit the (Non-Yard Cost) NYC file monthly to the Treasury team, ensuring it includes the latest forecasts for Change Orders and Non-Yard Costs.
- Support quarterly internal and external audit processes by preparing and providing required financial data.
- Aids in all ad-hoc financial analysis request within the department
Financial Responsibilities:
- Financial Control of Vessel Construction costs, Revitalizations and projects. The active portfolio is approximately $30B on a rolling 5-year cycle.
Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills:
- 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.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those requirements employees must meet to perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodations. While performing job functions the employee is regularly required to sit, and stand, write, review and type reports, compile data, operate a pc, communicate, listen, and assess information. The employee may move about the office complex, may travel to other office locations and may lift, push, pull or move 10-15 pounds. The employee is occasionally required to walk to the dock, ascend and descend the vessel.
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!
It is the policy of the Company to ensure equal employment and promotion opportunity to qualified candidates without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, sexuality, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Royal Caribbean Group and each of its subsidiaries prohibit and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment.
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