Finance Partnering Manager

Carnival Corporation & plc; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Carnival UK seeks a Finance Partnering Manager to support financial direction within a high-performing team. This full-time role involves strategic modeling, analysis, and providing financial support to various teams, ensuring effective decision-making.

Benefits

Annual Bonus

Car Allowance

Employee Discounted Cruising

Learning and Development Opportunities

Minimum 25 Days Leave

Employee Assistance Programs

Private Medical and Dental Insurance

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Experience in business partnering with diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to convey complex information to non-finance individuals.

Responsibilities

• Supports financial project in Sales, Marketing, and Revenue Management.
• Provides finance support to priority SLT-led projects.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication

Commercial Acumen

Education

Relevant Accounting Qualification

Job description

Job Description

Carnival UK is in search of a Finance Partnering Manager who is crucial in supporting our financial direction and joining a high-performing team.

The Finance Partnering Manager supports the P&O Cruises Commercial function and is responsible for providing financial project support in the Sales, Marketing, and Revenue Management teams, ensuring that decisions are taken with the correct level of oversight and challenge.

You’ll work closely with stakeholders to deliver the business’s tactical and strategic goals.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

1. Strategic modelling / scenario analysis
2. Deeper dive analysis to provide insight, driven by stakeholder questions or hypotheses
3. Investment appraisal & measurement of benefits for key initiatives
4. Providing finance support to priority SLT-led projects

Requirements: Your Expertise and Leadership

To thrive as a Finance Partnering Manager, we're looking for:

• Relevant accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).
• Experience in business partnering with diverse stakeholders.
• Exceptional analytical skills, including the ability to convey complex information to individuals without a finance background and craft compelling narratives that influence decisions.
• Strong communication and organizational abilities.
• Excellent commercial acumen, demonstrating the ability to work independently, take initiative, and provide informed positions on commercial initiatives, projects, and investment decisions.

Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as a CUK07 and offered as a full-time, permanent position. We offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.

About You: A Catalyst for Change

We believe that diversity enriches our team. We're interested in candidates who:

• Have experience in business partnering to drive revenue.
• Bring proactive and broad commercial acumen to discussions.
• Drive engagement and involvement in team/wide initiatives.
• Can effectively identify opportunities and highlight commercial risks.

Why Join Us?

Working with us is about more than a job. It's about creating unforgettable holiday happiness for our guests and a fulfilling career for you. Our benefits package reflects our commitment to your wellbeing:

• Annual bonus
• Car allowance
• Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
• Extensive learning and development opportunities
• Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance, and holiday trading scheme
• Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes
• Recognition scheme with prizes and awards
• Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
• Company paid private medical and dental insurance and health assessment
• In-house Occupational Health help and access to digital GP
• Life Assurance
• Parental and adoption leave
• Employee Shares Plan
• Electric Car and Cycle to Work schemes

Ready to Lead?

If supporting high-performing teams excites you, we're eager to hear from you. Apply now to start your journey with us, where your performance-led leadership will make a difference in our shared success.

Application Note

Given the opportunities we provide, we encourage prompt applications. We are committed to finding the right blend of talent and passion, and our recruitment process may close earlier than advertised for roles with high applicant volumes.

Don't miss this chance to leverage your accounting qualifications in a role where you can truly shine. Apply today and let’s explore how your skills and ambitions align with our opportunities!

Recruitment Journey

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About Us

Holidays are one of life’s greatest pleasures. Having the chance to relax, escape, and explore is a magical thing. And there is no better holiday than a cruise.

No one knows cruising like Carnival UK, where talented people from across the globe come together to create unforgettable holiday happiness. As part of the world’s largest holiday travel and leisure company, we take enormous pride in bringing to life two of the most iconic brands from Britain’s rich seafaring heritage, P&O Cruises and Cunard. Collectively they have been delivering unbridled joy, boundless adventure, and lifelong memories to millions of people for over 350 years. And in a multi-million pound global holiday market, where cruising has barely scratched the surface, we have the opportunity to do that for many, many more people.

Our diverse yet tight-knit teams share high standards, heartfelt values, and a passion for our purpose. Our Culture Essentials describe the expectations we have for ourselves and of each other, in building a culture that supports safe, sustainable, compliant operations, and celebrates diversity, equity, and inclusion.

It’s through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture that we hope to become Travel’s Employer of Choice.