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.
Our role categories range from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President) so you can clearly see internal development opportunities. This role is a CUK08 and is offered on a full-time, permanent basis, with hybrid working in our Southampton office, including up to two days from home.
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
Read our employee experience guide to learn more about life as a Carnival UK colleague:
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:
Being able to create unforgettable holiday happiness is a brilliant opportunity, so we often receive high volumes of applications for our roles. In these cases, we may close our job adverts early and aren't able to consider applications once this happens.
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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 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.

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