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Finance Partnering Manager - 12 month FTC
full-time•Southampton
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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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 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.
What you'll do
- The Finance Partnering Manager will support the Maritime and Sustainability function by driving commercial opportunities and providing financial insight for long-term planning. Key responsibilities include commercial analysis, investment appraisal, and risk assessment.
About Holland America Group
Princess is the world’s leading premium cruise line operating a fleet of modern ships visiting over 380 destinations around the globe on more than 160 itineraries. Each moment on Princess is one of wonderful discovery where guests can relax and explore. The choices are endless, from invigorating activities to more relaxing pursuits, and enable guests to share special moments with family and friends and enjoy unique travel experiences that create inspiring memories. At the forefront of innovation, Princess MedallionClass elevates service levels through enhanced guest experiences before and during cruise vacations.
Exciting career opportunities in many departments await your discovery. Whether you are in customer service, food and beverage, or fleet operations (just to name a few), we’re certain you will find a career path at Princess Cruises that will keep you engaged and growing for years to come. Teams on shore support colleagues onboard, as together we create memorable experiences—dining, entertainment, exploration, and celebration—for our guests.
Exceptional customer service is the cornerstone of our success thanks to more than 30,000 of the cruise industry’s finest team members on land and at sea. We create a friendly and welcoming environment not only for our onboard guests, but for our seagoing and land-based teams as well. The result is a remarkable number of loyal staff.
We respect the seas we sail and destinations we visit. Our ships adhere to international rules regulating operations from fire safety to navigation, maritime security, and environmental stewardship. Onboard medical facilities meet or exceed standards set by the American College of Emergency Physicians.
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