Senior Revenue Planning Analyst

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The Royal Caribbean Group has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Senior Revenue Planning Analyst reporting to the Senior Manager of Revenue.

 

This position works on-site in Miami, Florida.

 

Position Summary:

The Senior Analyst of Revenue Planning is responsible for building an accurate forecast and the development of components within the Net Ticket Revenue (in excess of $12B annually) and other revenue forecasts, including the ownership of the forecast model. The Senior Analyst ensures that all revenue reporting is accurate and updated on a consistent basis; this includes staying abreast of all impacts to our brand’s deployments and communicating any revenue and/or volume impacts on a regular basis. The Senior Analyst will be responsible for providing key financial information to our technical accounting team for external financial reporting (attention to detail and accuracy are paramount for the role). The Senior Analyst will assist in the opportunity/risk analysis of our corporate net revenue forecast and is expected to stay abreast of current business trends. The Senior Analyst also acts as a key point of contact for forecasts within the Revenue Planning team.   

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the customer deposit model, ensuring the most current metrics and methods are used to forecast for future deposits. 

• Responsible for the Forecast Automation Tool, and ensuring all inputs are updated in relation to any changes to our financial systems.  

• Validation of weekly revenue reports; working with RMDS team on a consistent basis if any issues arise/ to make changes as necessary. This is a critical report for the revenue management and revenue planning teams and drives key business decisions.  

• Responsible for SSC weekly revenue reports, including loading current forecasts and validating booked data. 

• Responsible for reporting accuracy – this includes the frequent analysis, updating, and maintenance of the financial standards process within our reporting.  

• Contribute to external financial reporting, working alongside technical accounting to provide stats for financial reporting as well as quarterly financial variance explanations. Accuracy is essential.  

• Involvement in the preparation of the quarterly Earnings Call preparation document and presentation. 

• Provide consistent risk/opportunity analyses of our forecast/plan. Report clear/concise findings to leadership. 

• Perform thoughtful and insightful ad-hoc analyses as requested on current trends, external impacts to our business, and any other relevant request. 

• Serve as subject matter expert for all net ticket revenue forecast topics. Work with RM Development and Systems team to develop and improve revenue tools with the goal of facilitating better decision making, reporting, and forecasting.  

• Provide detailed variance analyses at month-close, provide summary of month-end and quarter-end results to senior leadership. 

• Work closely with accounting teams to reconcile accounting actuals to revenue reports at a component level, if needed. Research any known variances and work with the accounting team to reconcile any differences.   

• Foster relationships with revenue management leadership, brand finance, port ops, air/sea, sales planning, accounting, and deployment teams.  

• Continuously search for potential business improvements, revenue opportunities and efficiency gains - develop, implement, and lead projects that capture such opportunities.  
• Responsible for developing, and reporting of the customer depos