Analyst, Shipboard Financial

The Shipboard Financial Analyst is a key contributor to the success of Carnival Cruise Line by providing a strong professional presence, financial expertise, and a data driven focus for the Finance department. This individual is primarily responsible for assisting in building the annual operating plan and subsequent forecasts. They are also responsible for continuously analyzing business trends, processes, and opportunities based on statistical information and insights from financial results and operational reviews. The Analyst role will assist with the preparation of data models, consolidation of monthly reports, which include outlining trends and opportunities, 

research related to industry trends, and report development and reporting workspace. Responsible for providing quality end-to-end service when it comes to data, from helping define appropriate basic metrics that will be relevant to meeting daily needs to creating and capturing more complex ones for strategic projects and making these available to end-users via reports, tables, visualizations, and dashboards. Other responsibilities may include ensuring the accuracy of the data through data validation in tandem with our data analytics team.

Essential Functions:

• Act as the Finance lead & liaison for shipboard operations. 

• Leads business analytic projects which identify opportunities to streamline business processes and optimize financial and operational performance across the organization, minimize effort and operating costs.

• Interpret insights from existing dashboards and reports, and as needed, augment with analysis from separate data sources or research.

• Provide complex financial analysis and communicating gathered insights to all levels of management in a simple and digestible way.

• Interpret insights from existing dashboards and reports, and as needed, augment with analysis from separate data sources or research.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Collaborate with both Shoreside and Shipboard; CCL Only

• Proficiency with financial statement analysis.

• Excellent presentation skills to deliver effective and informative material.

• Strong process improvement, data modelling, data mining/reporting activities, and analytical skills.

• Experience in a professional environment with proven exposure to a variety of technologies and data modelling 

• techniques.

• Experience building financial plans using complex models. Strong understanding of financial statements (P&L 95%, Balance Sheet 5%).

• Proven analytical and organizational skills to meet deadlines in an environment of often changing priorities; be resilient and resourceful.

• Must be able to critically think, problem-solve, and perform root cause analysis under ambiguity, conceptual thinker with strong analytical skills.

• Strong software skills a must, especially with query/reporting tools used for statistical analysis. Proficient with data visualization and reporting applications (e.g., Tableau, MS Power BI, SSRS, etc.), MS Office, Oracle 

• Essbase, SAS, SQL, and data warehousing. BI experience is a strong plus.

• Have the intellectual curiosity to seek out new areas of potential improvement actively and drill into the details to find the root cause of problems.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field Bachelor's Degree Required - Master's Degree Prefered in Finance, Accounting, Business Intelligence.

• Required: 1+ years of experience with a track record of driving results in finance, business analysis, or business intelligence.

Physical Demands: Must be able to remain in a stationary position at a desk and/or computer for extended periods of time. 

Travel:  No or very little travel likely

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