Manager, Sustainability Finance and Planning

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The Royal Caribbean Group has an exciting career opportunity for a full-time Manager of Sustainability Finance and Planning reporting to the Director of Finance Fuel.

 

This position works on-site in Miami, Florida.

 

Position Summary:

 

The Manager of Sustainability Finance, Analysis, and Planning is a key contributor to RCG’s environmental and corporate decarbonization strategy from an energy and emissions perspective. This role is responsible for modeling and forecasting shore power usage, emissions, carbon taxes (e.g., EU ETS), and supporting operational excellence and accounting for the related financial reporting requirements.

 

As a member of the Energy Analysis & Planning Team, this candidate will apply analytical and data-driven techniques to measure and forecast the company’s decarbonization strategy with all the levers and key stakeholders as well as track and report performance, variances, and insights to senior leadership. In addition, they will oversee the financial month-end closing duties and partner with external reporting teams. With additional focus on the regulations, they will also lead updates on global emissions compliance and greenhouse gas emissions objectives and targets.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

 

• Be a subject matter expert in greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental regulations.
• Play a key role in the planning, implementation, and evolution of the emissions reduction roadmap.
• Work cross-functionally with corporate and brand leadership (Directors through VPs) in areas including but not limited to: shoreside and shipboard marine operations, energy and decarbonization, finance, accounting, legal/compliance and tax, treasury/financial risk management, revenue and deployment, decarbonization and energy management, environmental stewardship, supply chain, and port operations.
• Assist in goal and strategy setting, which includes providing key inputs, analysis, and assumptions supporting corporate models for forecasts and long-range plans.
• Own the tracking of performance towards strategic, operational/financial, reporting, and compliance objectives related to shore power, carbon emissions, carbon taxes, and Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) compliance, environmental reporting (e.g., Carbon Disclosure/CDP to DNV).
• Provide insights and recommendations to finance and operations teams to influence outcomes and meet targets.
• Enhance and optimize reporting dashboards and develop predictive analytics capabilities to provide useful, relevant, and reliable information to internal and external stakeholders.
• Prepare and present observations and recommendations to executive audiences.
• Respond to frequent ad-hoc requests for analysis from management and senior leadership.
• Own the carbon tax model (EU ETS compliance) and model for shore power, and all related assumptions including impact of existing and possible emerging regulations.
• Own the financial accounts related to carbon tax and shore power; own the related forecasting, analysis and month-end financial closing procedures for these accounts.
• Prepare and present monthly analysis of operational and financial performance to the corporate financial controller, and executives in brand finance and global marine operations (GMO).
• Prepare and present recommendations to improve operational and financial performance, including insights from past performance and considerations for future based on the evolving regulatory and operating landscape, in the context of the company’s strategy.
• Manage a budget of over $50 million that will continue to grow significantly.

 

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills:

 

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in Finance / Engineering / Business or other highly analytical field from an accredited college or university is required. Post graduate degree is a plus. 
• 6-10 years of experience in finance and/or engineering positions, within marine, shipping or tra