Lead Analyst, Business Strategy
Royal Caribbean Group
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The Royal Caribbean Group’s Silversea Cruises Ltd. brand has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Lead Analyst of Business Strategy reporting to the Manager of Brand Strategy.
This position works on-site in Miami, Florida.
Position Summary:
This role supports the Manager of Brand Strategy in contributing to the development of strategic plans for the Silversea brand, and ensuring current operations align with the brand’s current and long-term strategic goals. The position will assist with business case development, identifying value-creation opportunities, and help improve brand profitability. Acting as an internal consultant, this role supports cross-departmental projects and analysis, communicates key strategic updates to the management team, assists with prioritizing brand initiatives, and providing analytical insights to drive business improvement opportunities.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support the cross-functional process of developing strategic plan and annual operating plan.
- Guide the development of multi-year strategies focused on profitability, efficiencies, optimization, and guest experience.
- Monitor and analyze brand KPIs and initiatives aligned with the brand’s operating plan and five-year strategic plan.
- Facilitate the monthly brand performance reporting and review process to provide actionable insights supporting brand improvement efforts.
- Perform revenue, costs, and operational analysis to better inform current decisions that will have a long-range impact on Silversea.
- Communicate and perform high-level analysis to support the internal brand stakeholders.
- Continually assess Silversea strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and promote actionable proposals to address them.
- Maintain and enhance financial models with different scenarios, and develop alternative approaches to cost, revenue and guest experience opportunities.
- Partner with brand operating teams to support a broad range of special projects and key strategic initiatives.
- Size investment and cost savings opportunities to pursue.
- Prepare senior executive level presentations.
- Work collaboratively with departments across the brand on ad-hoc projects.
- Support identification, evaluation, and recommendation of new business ideas.
Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- 4+ years of finance, business analysis and/or revenue management experience.
- Must possess strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Must have experience working effectively with senior management including creating and presenting executive level presentations.
- Must have experience working on highly analytical projects.
- Need to have advanced working knowledge of Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Prior experience of managing a team in a similar planning / analysis function needed.
- Must be a critical thinker, who demonstrates drive and a desire to improve processes where appropriate.
- Must possess demonstrated ability to build good working relationships with personnel at all levels located at the corporate offices and global offices.
- Experience using database query tools (such as Power BI or Hyperion) preferred.
- Must possess strong business writing skills.
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!
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