Royal Caribbean Group · 16 hours ago
Lead, Financial Hotel Operations
Miami, FL
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expRoyal Caribbean Group is a leading cruise line and travel company offering exciting career opportunities. The Lead, Financial Hotel Operations will oversee financial and administrative support functions for the Hotel Operations Department, including planning, reporting, and business analysis, while leading financial modeling and forecasting efforts.
Travel
Responsibilities
Lead the annual operating plan and forecast process to support organizational goals and objectives
Develop planning schedules, spreadsheet tools, and financial models. Develop and maintain robust demand and cost forecasting models (time series, regression, segmentation, etc)
Integrate with external data sources to discover interesting trends
Leverage AI to develop revenue and cost optimization models
Partner with IT and BI Teams to build and optimize data pipelines and feedback loops into the models
Partner with operational teams to understand and quantify effects of pricing/policy changes
Identify opportunities and drive simplification and automation of existing processes Create and maintain accurate and real time management reports and analysis including quick turn-around of ad-hoc financial analysis in a dynamic environment
Perform and communicate weekly tracking of actuals with updates to Hotel Operations management. Highlight outliers and drivers
Prepare and present hotel financials to Hotel Operations management. Communicate progress towards corporate objectives and provide detailed variance analysis of monthly results
Lead special projects/requests as determined by Hotel Operations Management and/or Finance Management
Support vendor evaluations and facilitate payment approvals and invoice processing
Maintain and ensure cost controls are in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley, accounting and other company policies
Forecast dry-dock costs impacting Hotel Operations to ensure costs are in line with expectations
Assist ship managers and shipboard staff with inquiries related to their budgets
Training and mentoring of Hotel Senior Analysts / Analysts
Departmental Liaison to Accounting, Corporate Planning and Risk Management, as well as other departments as needed
Perform other duties as required. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or management
Qualification
Required
4+ years of relevant experience in financial analysis, FP&A, corporate finance, Accounting or related roles, preferably within hospitality, travel, or leisure industries
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related discipline
Successful track record in financial leadership
Knowledge and extensive experience in accounting and/or other financial/analytical systems (i.e. JD Edwards, Hyperion, Essbase, Excel)
Ability to assimilate ideas/concepts into data driven models and strategies
Must be able to fully integrate into Royal Caribbean shoreside and shipboard culture
Leadership skills to proactively manage vessel expenses, support financial discipline, and ensure meeting or exceeding Hotel department financial targets and controls
Good analytical & computer skills, written and verbal communication skills, and interpersonal skills
Working knowledge of associated financial software and communication packages
Preferred
advanced certifications (e.g., CFA, CPA) are a plus
Experience with artificial intelligence models, database and analytical programming skills (including SAS and SQL, etc.)
Statistical modeling skills (regression and forecasting, etc.)
Strong Operations Research modeling skills (optimization and linear programming, etc.)
Benefits
Competitive compensation and benefits package
Excellent career development opportunities
Company
Royal Caribbean Group
Royal Caribbean Group is a cruise vacation company with a global fleet of 63 ships traveling around the world.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$15.43BKey Investors
RCI HoldingsMorgan Stanley
2025-09-22Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2025-05-14Post Ipo Debt· $2.28B
2024-09-16Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
Leadership Team
Jason Liberty
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Matt Denesuk
SVP, Chief AI Officer
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