Manager, Financial Systems Support

CARNIVAL CRUISE LINES; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

401(k) Plan with Match

Paid Time Off

Employee Discounts

Education/Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Carnival Cruise Lines is seeking a Manager, Financial Systems Support to lead the Oracle EBS R12.2 Financials support and related financial systems. The role collaborates with Brand teams and GFIT to ensure timely incident resolution, effective change management, and proactive problem solving across global operations.

The candidate will drive incidents, CRs, and SRs while guiding the team on RCA and production support transitions to maximize system reliability and business value.

Qualifications

• Experience with Oracle EBS R12.2 Financials modules across GL, AP, AR, PO, FA and CE.
• Strong incident/change management and problem management skills.
• Experience supporting global multi-brand deployments.

Responsibilities

• Manage incidents daily with third party support and ensure timely resolution within SLAs.
• Handle change requests with impact analysis, backout planning and approvals from CRB.
• Coordinate with Brand teams to prioritize incidents/CRs and communicate with third-party support.
• Oversee Oracle SRs, escalate as needed to Oracle management for urgent issues.
• Perform root-cause analysis to identify recurring incidents and implement preventive actions.
• Assess and implement new functionality/tools that add business value and ensure smooth transitions for production support.

Skills

Oracle EBS R12.2 Financials

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Applications

Job description

The Manager, Financial Systems Support is responsible for supporting Oracle EBS R12.2 application and other financial systems. The Manager will work closely with local administrators at Brands and other GFIT teams. The ideal candidate will have Functional and Technical expertise in Oracle EBS R12.2, should have the experience supporting EBS Financials modules at global level.

Essential Functions:

• Manage Incidents daily with third party support provider and ensuring timely resolution of incidents with acceptable resolution recommendations within our agreed upon Service Level Agreement. As part of the incident management, analyze recurring incidents and address it through Problem Management and propose a root cause fix to the issue.
• Manage change requests (CR) daily to ensure timely and competent solutions. This requires review of proposed implementation, Impact analysis, back out plan for all the change requests, present CRs to the Change Review Board (CRB) and obtains necessary approvals before providing approval to third party support provider to work on them. Review CRs pending for business approval and obtain an ETA from the users. Ensure the CRs are being approved for Production, if any related to a project or a specific timeline.
• Responsible for communicating with Brands to address incidents or change requests, holding meetings with Brand representatives for prioritizations. This includes meeting with all Brand leads individually to understand the priorities on Incidents/CRs and accordingly inform to the third-party support provider. Other support action is to highlight any change impacting all or multiple Brands and address any concerns with the changes.
• Manage Services Requests (SRs) in Oracle and elevate as needed. This requires meeting with team to understand all the open SRs with Oracle, ensure team is getting timely response from Oracle. Support action requires escalating SRs with Oracle management for any urgent issues or any SRs not getting timely addressed by Oracle.
• Identify recurring incidents through analysis (Root Cause Analysis) of problem management and suggest proactive remediation tasks to reduce recurrence.
• Assist & implement any new functionality/tool that provides value to the business. This requires providing inputs from Production support perspectives so that the new functionality/tool can be transitioned to the support team smoothly, without impacting business users. Getting Production support involved along with the implementation team helps team to learn the new tool and hence better support. Support action includes the transition happens smoothly.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Scope: The scope of the role is in supporting all brands with GFIT Financial systems so it has major global impact.
• Problem solving: This role involves complex analysis of data & information, involve research, anticipation of challenges that may have an impact on the business. Providing optimal solutions and industry best practices is expected form this role.
• Impact: This role is to support all brands fintech teams.
• Leadership: Lead the Oracle Financials support team and manage the day-to-day support of Financial systems to ensure successful Accounting period closure.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree - Computer Applications or similar
• 7-10 years in Oracle EBS R12.2 Financials Technical and Functional areas across modules GL, AP, AR, PO, FA and CE.Experience in supporting global setup, Multi-currency, fast paced environment.

Work Conditions:

Work primarily in a climate-controlled environment with minimal safety/health hazard potential.

Physical Demands:

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

This position is classified as in-office. As an in-office role, it requires employees to work from a designated Carnival office in South Florida Monday through Thursday each week. Employees may work from their homes on Mondays and Fridays. Candidates must be located in (or willing to relocate to) the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area.

Offers to selected candidates will be made on a fair and equitable basis, taking into account specific job-related skills and experience.

At Carnival, your total rewards package is much more than your base salary. All non-sales roles participate in an annual cash bonus program, while sales roles have an incentive plan. Director and above roles may also be eligible to participate in Carnival's discretionary equity incentive plan. Plus, Carnival provides comprehensive and innovative benefits to meet your needs, including:

• Health Benefits:
• Cost-effective medical, dental and vision plans
• Employee Assistance Program and other mental health resources
• Additional programs include company paid term life insurance and disability coverage
• Financial Benefits:
• 401(k) plan that includes a company match
• Employee Stock Purchase plan
• Paid Time Off:
• Holidays - All full-time and part-time with benefits employees receive days off for 8 company-wide holidays, plus 2 additional floating holidays to be taken at the employee's discretion.
• Vacation Time - All full-time employees at the manager and below level start with 14 days/year; director and above level start with 19 days/year. Part-time with benefits employees receive time off based on the number of hours they work, with a minimum of 84 hours/year. All employees gain additional vacation time with further tenure.
• Sick Time - All full-time employees receive 80 hours of sick time each year. Part-time with benefits employees receive time off based on the number of hours they work, with a minimum of 60 hours each year.
• Other Benefits
• Complementary stand-by cruises, employee discounts on confirmed cruises, plus special rates for family and friends
• Personal and professional learning and development resources including tuition reimbursement
• On-site Fitness center at our Miami campus

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About Us

Carnival Corporation & plc is the world's largest leisure travel company, our mission to deliver unforgettable happiness to our guest through our diverse portfolio of leading cruise brands and island destinations, including Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, and Seabourn in North America and Australia; P&O Cruises and Cunard Line in the United Kingdom; AIDA in Germany; Costa Cruises in Southern Europe.

Join us and embark on a career that offers not only the chance to grow professionally but also the opportunity to be part of a global community that makes a difference.

In addition to other duties/functions, this position requires full commitment and support for promoting ethical and compliant culture. More specifically, this position requires integrity, honesty, and respectful treatment of others, as well as a willingness to speak up when they see misconduct or have concerns.

Carnival Corporation & plc and Carnival Cruise Line is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer. In this regard, it does not discriminate against any qualified individual on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, mental, physical or sensory disability, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, federal, and/or international law.

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