Finance Partnering Senior Analyst.

Carnival Corporation and plc; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading holiday sector company in Southampton seeks a Senior Analyst, Finance Partnering to support commercial activities and drive performance through detailed analysis and financial insights. The ideal candidate must be a fully qualified accountant with advanced Excel skills and experience in business partnering. The role offers opportunities for hybrid working, annual bonuses, and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Annual bonus

Employee discounted cruising

Extensive learning and development opportunities

Health Cash Plan

Life assurance

Employee shares plan

Minimum 25 days leave

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in management reporting, planning, analytics, and business partnering.
• Ability to interpret financial data, generate insights, and make recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Support development of financial forecasts, operating plans, and strategic plans.
• Analyse performance drivers and provide actionable insights.
• Collaborate with business partners and evaluate commercial initiatives.

Skills

Advanced Excel skills

Commercial awareness

Excellent analysis

Strong communication skills

Education

Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)

Tools

Oracle ERP/EPM

Tableau

Job description

Job Description

Carnival UK is a leading name in the holiday sector, dedicated to delivering unforgettable holiday happiness to our customers. Our success is built on a foundation of diverse talents and perspectives, and we believe in fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a fully qualified Senior Analyst, Finance Partnering to join our dynamic Finance Partnering team. This is a pivotal role supporting the commercial activities of Carnival UK including ticketed revenue, sales, trading and marketing. You’ll play a key part in developing financial forecasts and plans, analysing performance drivers, and providing actionable insights that shape business decisions and drive commercial success.

What You’ll Do

• Support the development of financial forecasts, operating plans, and strategic plans across Carnival UK.
• Analyse and provide insight into performance drivers, helping to add value and influence commercial outcomes.
• Review financial results, support understanding of variances, and proactively identify opportunities to improve performance and manage risk.
• Collaborate with business partners and cross‑functional teams to evaluate commercial and revenue‑driving initiatives.
• Recommend improvements to financial reporting systems and processes to increase efficiency and analytical capabilities.
• Ensure integrity between finance reports and operational or performance reports (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, P&L).
• Contribute to capital planning, supplier contract agreements and other business performance agendas.

What You’ll Bring

• Qualifications: Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA).
• Experience: Hands‑on experience in management reporting, planning, analytics and business partnering.
• Advanced Excel skills and familiarity with finance systems (Oracle ERP/EPM and Tableau desirable).
• Commercial awareness and the ability to interpret financial data, generate insights and make recommendations to stakeholders.
• Excellent analysis, communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to coordinate inputs from multiple functions efficiently and work collaboratively across teams.
• Proactive, forward‑thinking and ready to step beyond traditional accounting.

About You

You’re more than just your CV. You’re commercially minded, analytical and passionate about driving business performance. You thrive in dynamic environments, enjoy collaborating with others and are ready for a step up whether moving out of practice or seeking a more business‑facing finance role.

Why Join Us?

Working with us means more than just a role in finance. You’ll be part of a team that values well‑being, personal growth and commercial impact. Here’s what we offer:

• Hybrid working (up to 2 days from home)
• Annual bonus
• Employee discounted cruising plus friends and family offers
• Extensive learning and development opportunities
• Employee assistance and wellbeing programmes
• Company‑paid Health Cash Plan 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
• Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme

Contributory defined contribution pension scheme

Diversity & Inclusion

Diversity is our strength and we encourage applications from those with varied experiences, whether you meet every listed requirement or not. If you’re passionate about finance and looking for an opportunity to grow, we’d love to hear from you.

How to Apply

Because we often receive high volumes of applications for our roles, we may close our advert early and are not able to consider applications once this happens.

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 delivered unbridled joy, boundless adventure and lifelong memories to millions for over 350 years.

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

Its through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture that we hope to become a Travellers Employer of Choice.