Revenue Accounting Systems Architect

The Revenue Accounting Systems Architect is a strategic leader responsible for designing, optimizing, and governing revenue accounting systems to align with business objectives and operational efficiency. This role focuses on translating complex business requirements into functional system solutions, essentially acting as the technical expert for all finance-related system architecture within an organization, driving process improvements, and ensuring seamless integration across stakeholders. The architect is a key contributor in the creation of the product roadmap, acts as the primary liaison between Finance, IT, and vendors, prioritizing system integrity, compliance, and scalability. Bridges the gap between business finance needs and technology, designing and implementing financial systems by deeply understanding accounting principles, business processes, and relevant software platforms. 

Essential Functions:

• Functional System Design & Process Optimization 
  • Requirement Translation: Convert business needs into detailed functional design documents, leveraging industry best practices and optimal solutions. 
  • Process Reengineering: Develop comprehensive functional architecture for revenue accounting systems, including defining data models, workflows, integrations, and key performance indicators (KPIs). Design and streamline financial processes like General Ledger, Accounts Payable/Receivable, Cash Management, and Project Accounting by identifying areas for automation and efficiency., ensure the coherence between functionalities, a good appreciation of the production capacity as well as an accurate assessment of the technical challenges.
  • System Lifecycle Management: Oversee end-to-end project phases, including scoping, requirements definition, testing, deployment, and post-implementation support.
• Compliance & Governance
  • Regulatory Alignment: Ensure systems adhere to accounting standards and internal audit requirements. 
  • Change Management: Own system change governance, including prioritization, risk assessment, and approval of deployments to minimize disruptions.     
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Leadership
  • Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with IT, Vendors, Finance, and business units to align system upgrades with strategic goals.
  • Strategic Advisory: Proactively identify opportunities to enhance system functionality and drive adoption of automation tools. 
  • Team Mentorship: Train and mentor business analysts, fostering expertise in system workflows and process documentation. 
• Quality Assurance
  • Test Strategy Ownership: Design and oversee an execute user acceptance testing (UAT) plans, ensuring changes meet functional and compliance standards. 
  • Defect Resolution: Collaborate with IT and Vendors to troubleshoot system issues, validate fixes, and maintain production stability. 
• Documentation & Reporting
  • Process Mapping: Develop and maintain detailed system flow diagrams, user guides, and process documentation. 
  • Maintain records of system changes and compliance checks.
  • Reporting Solutions: Utilize tools (e.g., SQL, Power BI) to design operational and compliance reports for stakeholders. 
• Vendor & Request Management
  • Vendor Coordination: Manage relationships with system vendors to resolve issues, prioritize enhancements, and align roadmaps. 
  • Request Triage: Evaluate and prioritize user/system requests based on business impact and resource capacity. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Accounting, Finance, or related field of study; or any combination of relevant background, skills and experience.
• 3+ years of experience in accounting / financial system applications testing, data extractions and analysis. Strong knowledge of the accounting principles. Experience in project management on software development projects.       

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Proven ability to lead and manage finance system implementation projects from initiation to deployment. 
• Communication and Collaboration: Excellent communication skills to translate technical concepts to business stakeholders and effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams. 
• Knowledge of the project management models. 
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, communication and planning skills.
•  Ability to multi-task, work independently and balance requests at peak workloads.
•  Ability to guide and assist other departments.
•  Ability to quickly learn new technologies and stay up to date with the latest trends.

Physical Demands: Must be able to remain in a stationary position at a desk and/or computer for extended periods of time. Requires regular movement throughout CCL facilities.

Travel: No or very little travel likely

Work Conditions:

• Work primarily in a climate-controlled environment with minimal safety/health hazard potential.
• Work may require employee to work inside and outside with exposure to changing climate and/or operate machinery.
• May be requested to work a different shift.
• Other job specific working conditions 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. 

This position is classified as “remote.”  As a remote role, it allows employees to work full-time from their home. It may also require regular travel to Carnival headquarters in Miami, FL for in-office collaboration.  Sourcing of candidates is primarily done in Carnival’s remote hubs of Orlando, Tampa, Atlanta, Houston, and Dallas.  If the search is extended past those areas, candidates must be located in one of the following U.S. states:  FL, GA, TX and NC

Offers to selected candidates will be made on a fair and equitable basis, taking into account specific job-related skills and experience.  

At Carnival, your total rewards package is much more than your base salary. All non-sales roles participate in an annual cash bonus program, while sales roles have an incentive plan. Director and above roles may also be eligible to participate in Carnival’s discretionary equity incentive plan. Plus, Carnival provides comprehensive and innovative benefits to meet your needs, including:

• Health Benefits:
  • Cost-effective medical, dental and vision plans
  • Employee Assistance Program and other mental health resources
  • Additional programs include company paid term life insurance and disability coverage 
• Financial Benefits:
  • 401(k) plan that includes a company match
  • Employee Stock Purchase plan
• Paid Time Off
  • Holidays – All full-time and part-time with benefits employees receive days off for 8 company-wide holidays, plus 2 additional floating holidays to be taken at the employee’s discretion. 
  • Vacation Time – All full-time employees at the manager and below level start with 14 days/year; director and above level start with 19 days/year.  Part-time with benefits employees receive time off based on the number of hours they work, with a minimum of 84 hours/year.  All employees gain additional vacation time with further tenure.
  • Sick Time – All full-time employees receive 80 hours of sick time each year.  Part-time with benefits employees receive time off based on the number of hours they work, with a minimum of 60 hours each year.  
• Other Benefits
  • Complementary stand-by cruises, employee discounts on confirmed cruises, plus special rates for family and friends
  • Personal and professional learning and development resources including tuition reimbursement 

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