Analyst Sr, Business

Carnival Cruise Line is the world’s most popular cruise line, dedicated to delivering memorable vacations. The Senior Business Analyst plays a key role in providing decision support for project management within the Finance organization, overseeing financial systems projects and ensuring successful project delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee all financial systems related projects for the Finance, Shipboard Operations and other CCL Finance teams that improve CCL’s controls, protect our assets, increases Finance relevance and reliability and improve our financial insights to support enterprise-wide initiatives. Monitor project schedules as well as take ownership of change management process
• Develop new tools, reports, and analyses, independently and collaboratively, as support to Finance business partners for financial planning, reporting and BI solutions
• Identify best, efficient, and cost beneficial solutions when business processes are being implemented and require input or output from critical systems supporting shipboard financial operations. Provide insights on the current functionality of the applications that are used by the department as well as possible enhancements to these systems
• Serve as subject matter expert (SME) for project business requirements; develop business cases. Participate in meetings to understand business requirements to enhance systems. Perform and/or oversee all testing activities related to financial software used in the department to ensure new system functionality works as defined and system defects are corrected prior to implementation
• Ensure all systems are performing efficiently, reporting issues and monitoring timely resolution. Support Financial Analytics team in implementation and enhancement of high-impact business reporting (i.e. scorecards, KPIs)
• Facilitate the data mining activities of the department and provide direction and support to identify system sources for the information
• Work closely with the Finance Operations management team for departmental improvements and efficiency to formulate executive level analyses, reports and presentations
• Submit/prioritize systems defects and content management cases that impact Finance Operations
• Review, monitor, facilitate and organize releases impacting applications supporting financial activity that flow through Finance Operations

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, IT, Accounting, Finance, or related field of study; or any combination of relevant background, skills and experience
• 5 years of experience in business/financial planning and analysis processes with a working knowledge in accounting principles and issues
• Experience in project management on software development projects
• Shipboard experience required
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, communication, planning and problem-solving skills
• Able to multi-task, work independently and balance requests at peak workloads (or change gears quickly for important requests) from various departments and upper management
• General knowledge of infrastructure requirements and components, SharePoint sites, intranets, and networks
• Strong understanding of financial data analysis tools and systems such as CrunchTime, Oracle Financials, Hyperion Essbase, Tableau, or OBIEE
• Must have strong command of Microsoft Office programs, advance level of Excel and interactive reporting tools
• Must have the ability to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodations
• MBA
• PMP