Newbuild Project Financial Controller

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd•Miami, FL

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Journey with us! Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our exciting team of employees. Royal Caribbean Group is pleased to offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, and excellent career development opportunities, each offering unique ways to explore the world. The Royal Caribbean Group has an exciting career opportunity for a full-time Newbuild Project Financial Controller reporting to the Senior Director of Newbuild Finance. This position works on-site in Miami, Florida. Position Summary: This role leads the development, validation, and optimization of vessel cost estimates across global newbuild programs. This role coordinates cross‑functional efforts between Miami, Turku, and Saint‑Nazaire teams to assess prototype and sister‑ship pricing, evaluate technical design options, and analyze recurring and incremental costs. The position drives cost‑savings initiatives by identifying, quantifying, and tracking optimization opportunities in partnership with Newbuild, site offices, brand leadership, and third‑party advisors. Additionally, the Controller oversees the creation and continuous enhancement of a comprehensive ship pricing model and cost database, ensuring accurate economic inputs and alignment of data across shipyards and site offices. The role also collaborates closely with Commercial and Legal teams to evaluate and recommend contracting terms that improve cost transparency and support savings incentives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Accounting, or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
12+ years of financial modeling, pricing, cost engineering, or newbuild related finance.
Expertise in complex cost structures, large capital projects, or long-term industrial programs.
Strong collaboration skills across cross functional global teams.
Ability to operate in fast paced, highly dynamic development cycles.

Responsibilities

Compile and validate cost estimates for new vessel concepts, technical specifications, reference vessels, and yard proposals.
Provide real-time evaluation and valuation of design/technical options, associated costs, risks, and potential cost drivers / variances.
Review and evaluate recurring and incremental costs, including change orders, across multiple newbuild programs.
Identify, quantify, validate, and track cost savings opportunities across the newbuild portfolio.
Support cost reduction efforts in partnership with the Newbuilding team (including Site Offices), operational and shared service partners, and any third-party advisors hired for this purpose.
Report on targeted and realized savings and maintain a repository of cost saving opportunities for future programs.
Own the development and continuous enhancement of the Ship Component Pricing Model and underlying cost database.
Maintain macro and microeconomic pricing inputs, including labor, turnkey, procurement, inflation indices, and raw material dynamics.
Aggregate and align data from site offices and shipyards to generate holistic, accurate vessel pricing estimates.
Partner with Commercial and Legal teams to propose and evaluate contract terms enhancing cost transparency and enabling savings incentives.