Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Caribbean Group seeks a Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis to lead capital and operating expense planning for Campus Modernization, Facilities, and SS&E. The role partners with senior leaders to forecast, analyze risks, and create robust financial models supporting investment decisions.

The position requires strong FP&A expertise, governance discipline, and the ability to translate strategy into actionable financial plans for complex portfolios.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field.
• MBA/CPA/CMA/MPA preferred for seniority.

Responsibilities

• Improve capital and expense planning quality, cadence, and predictability across portfolios.
• Provide clearer financial accountability for initiatives.
• Develop business cases, scenarios, and ROI framing for leadership.

Skills

Finance leadership

FP&A

Capital planning

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics/Business

MBA/CPA/CMA/MPA preferred

Tools

Oracle/EPM/Hyperion/SmartView

Power BI

Tableau

Excel

Lease accounting systems

Job description

Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis

Journey with us! Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our exciting team of employees. Royal Caribbean Group is pleased to offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, and excellent career development opportunities, each offering unique ways to explore the world.

The Royal Caribbean Group has an exciting career opportunity for a full-time Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis reporting to the Director, Risk Management Finance.

Position is onsite and based in Miami, FL

The Finance Manager supports Campus Modernization,Facilities, andSafety / Security / Environmental (“SS&E”)by providing dedicated financial leadership across planning, execution, and ongoing operations. This role strengthens financial governance, discipline, and transparency for initiatives with significant capital andoperatinginvestment, ensuring funding decisions, trade-offs, and sequencing are financially sound and aligned to long-term workplace, operational, and cost-optimizationobjectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Improve capital and expense planning quality, cadence, and predictability across the Campus Modernization,Facilities, and SS&Eportfolios.
• Make clearer financial accountability (owners, baselines, variances, and corrective actions) for key initiatives.
• Proactively identify and communicate financial risks, constraints, and sensitivities;ensure timelyescalation with options.
• Need to have enhanced decision support for leadership via consistent business cases, scenarios, and value/ROI framing.
• Measure value creation through optimized capital deployment, lifecycle cost management, and improved return on investment.
• Portfolio planning and forecasting:Own and continuously improve capital and operating expense forecasts for Campus Modernization,Facilities,and SS&E,including pacing, phasing, and multiyear outlooks; align assumptions with strategy, delivery capacity, and operational plans.Analyze lease costs, occupancy costs, and total cost of ownership.Support budgeting andforecasting for rent, CAM, taxes, and capital expenditures.Track and report variance vs. budget for real estate spend
• Business cases and financial models:Translate strategies into financial models, scenarios, and investment cases (e.g., NPV/ROI, lifecycle cost, payback, cost avoidance) to enable informed prioritization and trade-offs.Develop andmaintainreal estate financial models (NPV, IRR, lease vs. buy analysis).
• Funding strategy and decision support:Advise leaders on funding, timing, andscopedecisions in response to changing business priorities and constraints; prepare recommendations that clearly articulate options, implications, and risks.
• Governance and financial discipline:Establishand operate financial governance routines (baseline setting, variance analysis, change control, benefits tracking) to improve transparency and accountability across initiatives.
• Risk identification and mitigation:Identifyfinancial risks early (e.g., scope creep, schedule shifts, inflation/market volatility, vendor/contract exposure), quantify impacts, and drive mitigation plans with partners.
• Cross-functional partnership and influence:Partner with Campus Modernization,Facilities, and SS&Efunctional leaders to resolve competing interests, align financial realities with operationalobjective, and drive outcomes through influence rather than authority.
• Reporting and insights:Create executive-ready narratives, dashboards, and reporting that contextualize performance, drivers, and recommended actions for leadership forums.
• Tool enablement and automation:Leverage automation and AI-enabled tools for repeatable analytics (e.g., reporting, variance identification), while applying financial judgment and discretion to resolve conflicting inputs and make recommendations.
• Finance partnership:Coordinate with central Finance and related teams (e.g., procurement, accounting, controllership) to ensurealignment to financial policies, capitalization guidance, and enterprise planning cycles.
• Decision-Making & Financial Judgment: This role requires sustained financial judgment, discretion, and cross-functional leadership that cannot be fully automated. The Finance Manager routinely navigates ambiguity, assesses competing priorities, and influences decisions across stakeholders to ensure outcomes align to strategic and operationalobjectives.
• Assess trade-offs between competing capital projects with differing risk profiles, strategic benefits, and delivery constraints.
• Reconcile conflicts in forecasts or assumptions across stakeholders; determine an appropriate financial position and document rationale.
• Adviseleadership on funding, timing, orscopechanges when business priorities, constraints, or market conditions shift.
• Influence portfolio sequencing and resource allocation by partnering with functional leaders and resolving competing interests.
• The Finance Manager serves as a key partner to the Chief People & Administrative Officer, supporting decision-making across a broad portfolio of Campus and Facilities initiatives. The role prepares and contextualizes information (financial and operational) for strategic discussions, prioritization, and execution, acting as a consistent point of coordination tomaintainalignment across stakeholders and enable effective oversight of complex, interdependent work.
• Perform other duties asrequired.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field (MBA/CPA/CMA/MPApreferred).
• 5–10+ years of progressive finance experience, including FP&A, capital planning,realestate finance.
• Oracle/EPM/Hyperion/SmartView experience.
• Strong financial modeling and Excel skills.
• Experience withLease accounting systems (e.g., CoStar, SAP RE, Lucernex),data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau).
• Understanding ofLease structures (gross, net, CAM)and real estate valuation concepts.
• Demonstrated experience building multiyear financial models and business cases for complex portfolios.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders and influencing cross-functionally;comfortable operating in ambiguity.
• Understanding ofcapital project economics and lifecycle cost considerations (e.g., facilities, construction, real estate, workplace, infrastructure) preferred.
• Strongproficiencywith financial planning/reporting tools and Excel; experiencewith automation and analytics solutions preferred.
• Strategic and analytical thinking; ability to connect financials to workplace and operational strategy.
• Financial governance mindset: rigor, transparency, controls, and accountability.
• Executive communication: concise storytelling, recommendation framing, and stakeholder-ready materials.
• Influence and partnership: ability to align diverse stakeholders and drive decisions without direct authority.
• Risk management:comfortquantifying uncertainty and creating actionable mitigation options.
• Continuous improvement: leveraging automation/AI-enabled tools appropriately while applying sound judgment.

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!

The position is not eligible for work authorization sponsorship .

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 Groupand each of its subsidiaries prohibit and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment.