Analyst, Revenue Business REMOTE

Carnival Cruise Line is the world’s most popular cruise line, offering unique experiences across its fleet. The Revenue Business Analyst plays a crucial role in delivering high-quality revenue accounting software and overseeing system maintenance and enhancements related to finance and revenue operations.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, software developers and project support teams to determine project scope and requirements
• Responsible for reviewing and implementing systematic test plans
• Perform all testing activities related to revenue accounting software to ensure the scope of the projects is met and system defects are corrected prior to implementation
• Monitor project schedules and take ownership of the change management process
• Provide insights into the current functionality of the applications that are used by the Revenue Accounting and other Finance Departments as well as possible enhancements to these systems
• Participate in meetings to understand business requirements to enhance revenue accounting related systems
• Review, monitor, facilitate and organize revenue accounting system releases
• Support system implementations, enhancements, and migrations by validating requirements and assisting with UAT and defect resolution
• Ensure solutions meet business, regulatory, and operational requirements before production release
• Contribute to continuous improvement of analysis standards, documentation practices, and analytical frameworks
• Provide production support related to revenue accounting applications by analyzing system issues reported by business users
• Open support cases using specialized software and monitor timely resolutions
• Partner with data and finance teams to reconcile transaction data, balances, and financial outputs across systems
• Interpret ‘user stories’ impacting Revenue Accounting and submit defects, maintenance and enhancement cases using specialized software
• Translate complex analytical findings into executive-ready narratives, clearly articulating the problem, options, recommended solution, and expected value
• Evaluate regulatory, operational, and technology risks and incorporate mitigations into business case recommendations
• Facilitate the data mining activities of the department and provide directions and support to identify system sources for the information
• Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Practical experience testing of enterprise size financial applications is required
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, communication and planning 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, and networks
• Must have strong command of Microsoft Office programs
• Must have the ability to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodations. For example, sometimes it may be required to deploy a project during vessel's repairs (Dry-Docks) or during vessels start-ups. This may change ship's working environment. Also, sometimes lacks climate control for hours at a time, elevator may be offline for hours at a time. Sailing on Crew Cabins, etc
• At least 3 years of experience in business/financial planning and analysis processes with a working knowledge in accounting principles and issues
• Experience working with Azure DevOps and/or alternative software development and testing tracking systems
• Experience in project management on software development projects