Strategic Capital Planning Analyst

Royal Caribbean Group; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Caribbean Group in Miami seeks Senior Analyst, Capital Planning to support long-term cap asset strategy and end-to-end expenditure process, including modeling, underwriting, and ERP transformation for Capital Planning.

The role collaborates with executives to monitor KPIs, prepare reports, and manage capital projects across multiple groups, helping optimize $20+ billion in planned capex over the next five years. On-site in Miami.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, engineering, or another quantitative field.
• 2-3 years of work experience across finance, operations, strategy, or underwriting—including investment banking, management consulting, private equity or portfolio/PE operations, corporate development, corporate strategy, or corporate FP&A.
• Experience with OracleERP, Power BI preferred but not required.
• Advanced use of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word applications.
• Must have ability to work well under pressure, write executive level reports, administer meetings and problem solve with groups.
• Demonstrated financial modeling and scenario-analysis ability—able to build a driver-based model from a blank sheet, not just maintain templates.
• Highly analytical with the ability to think strategically: connects the numbers to the business decision and can translate complex analysis for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong work ethic and a track record of delivering high-quality work under tight deadlines with a high degree of accuracy and ownership.
• Hungry and curious to learn, with genuine interest in how capital decisions drive enterprise value.
• Proactive and solution-oriented; identifies problems early and brings recommended options.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, willingness to self-improve, and a coachable, feedback-seeking mindset.

Responsibilities

• Utilize financial modeling and scenario analysis to evaluate investment opportunities, support multi-year budget planning, and ensure alignment with strategic goals.
• Monitor and evaluate KPIs related to capital projects’ financial and non-financial performance. Prepare comprehensive monthly and quarterly reports for senior executives.
• Support the entire capital expenditure process - from project submission and approval to execution and monitoring. Help design and maintainmilestone tracking systems in collaboration with project managers.
• Coordinate bi-weekly Capital Committee meetings and work closely with Corporate Officers to provide analysis, reporting and recommendations of both current and future Capital projects toexecutivemanagement.
• Manage the Capital Acquisition Request (CAR) process, including administration of theERPplatform, ensuring seamless electronic approvals and project tracking.Supportsystem enhancements and the implementation of new ERP modules related to capital planning.
• Evaluate the capitalization and budgeting of all Capital Appropriation Requests and conduct periodic reviewsof these projects.
• Underwrite andpressure-test business cases submitted by project sponsors—building and reviewing ROI,NPV,IRR, and payback analyses and stress-testing key assumptions to ensure capital is allocated to the highest-return opportunities.
• Work closely with Operating Groups, Accounting, Finance, External Partners, and IT teams to ensure accuracy in capital forecasting, capitalization policies, and project reporting.
• Liaise with Business Groups and Accounting to compile quarterly CIP confirmations and proper application of capitalization policies.
• Perform targeted analyses and develop recommendations to support strategic initiatives, financial goals, and process improvements.
• Synthesize complex data into actionable insightsandexplain or translate these insights to executives.
• Supportmonitoring andmanagement of$20+ billion of upcoming capital expenditures over the next 5 years.
• Performs other duties as required.

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Royal Caribbean Group in Miami seeks Senior Analyst, Capital Planning to support long-term cap asset strategy and end-to-end expenditure process, including modeling, underwriting, and ERP transformation for Capital Planning.

The role collaborates with executives to monitor KPIs, prepare reports, and manage capital projects across multiple groups, helping optimize $20+ billion in planned capex over the next five years. On-site in Miami.