About this role
Carnival UK is in search of a commercially minded Finance Partnering Manager who is crucial in supporting our financial direction and joining a high-performing team for a 12month period.
Role Overview:
As Finance Partnering Manager you’ll support the Maritime and Sustainability function in driving forwards commercial opportunities across the department.
You’ll work closely with The Director of Maritime Business Performance, and the Director of Finance Business Partnering, to provide insight, challenge, and financial modelling to support long-term planning and investment decisions.
Through influence and collaboration, you’ll play a key role in identifying and assessing opportunities and producing recommendations to the business.
Key responsibilities include:
- Exploring business challenges and opportunities through insightful commercial analysis, working closely with business stakeholders to understand our business operations, explore opportunities and develop plans to mitigate commercial risks.
- Making proposals and recommendations for future commercial improvements.
- Deeper dive analysis, including benchmarking and supporting data interrogation and insight in forming proposals and business cases.
- Strategic modelling, with scenario and sensitivity modelling, to support recommendations.
- Investment appraisal and measurement of benefits for key initiatives.
- Assessing contracts and suppliers for risks and opportunities.
- Drive insight into profitability and value creation across Maritime operations.
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.
- Excellent commercial acumen, demonstrating the ability to work independently, take initiative, and provide informed positions on commercial initiatives, projects, and investment decisions.
- Exceptional analytical skills, including the capability to convey complex information to individuals without a finance background and to craft compelling narratives that influence decisions.
- Strong communication and organisational abilities.
Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as a CUK07 offered as a full-time position, on a fixed term 12-month basis, we offer hybrid work including up to two days from home. Part-time hours will also be considered.
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 commercial benefits
- Bring proactive and broad commercial acumen to discussions.
- Drive engagement and involvement in team/wide initiatives.
- Can effectively identify opportunities and highlight commercial risks.
- Have significant experience of commercial analysis, including modelling and use of large data sets.
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
- 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
- Employee Shares Plan
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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Other facts
About Carnival Corporation
Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) is the largest global cruise company, and among the largest leisure travel companies, with a portfolio of world-class cruise lines and a fleet of over 90 ships. Together its cruise lines – including AIDA Cruises, Carnival Cruise Line, Costa Cruises, Cunard, Holland America Line, P&O Cruises, Princess Cruises, and Seabourn – visit more than 800 ports around the world and account for nearly 40% of the overall cruise market globally.
In 2024, the company’s talented workforce of over 160,000 team members from 150 countries delivered unforgettable happiness to approximately 13.5 million guests by providing extraordinary cruise vacations, while honoring the integrity of every ocean sailed, place visited, and life touched.
Carnival Corporation owns and operates eight destinations globally, designed exclusively for guests of the company’s cruise lines, as well as Holland America Princess Alaska Tours, the leading tour company in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon. The company is dual-listed and traded on the London and New York stock exchanges and is included in both the S&P 500 index in the US and the FTSE 250 index in the UK.
What you'll do
- The Finance Partnering Manager will support the Maritime and Sustainability function by driving commercial opportunities and providing financial insights for long-term planning. Key responsibilities include exploring business challenges, making recommendations for improvements, and conducting strategic modelling.
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