Finance Partnering Senior Manager

The role involves leading and co-ordinating the understanding and review of financial performance. It requires collaboration with business stakeholders and other members of the Finance Partnering and Reporting & Analytics team to provide clear guidance as well as financial and strategic analysis. You will support the creation of robust financial plans aligned with CUK strategies, helping to drive performance against these plans. In this role, you will work closely with members of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and their teams to establish strong relationships and gain a comprehensive understanding of their business areas. This will enable you to act as a sounding board, providing proactive financial guidance to drive profitability, and offering forward-looking perspectives and constructive challenge. Additionally, you will advise on business cases for investments, opportunities, and operational changes. You will play a pivotal role in reviewing key initiatives to ensure they yield the expected benefits and optimal results. Your excellent analysis and communication skills will enable you to interpret financial information in a way that provides clear insight into our operational performance, supporting decision-making. Through your direct reports, you will lead coordination across various business areas to produce and validate forecasts and plans, ensuring the integrity of data and its proper use within financial projections. As part of an ongoing focus on continual improvement, you will help identify opportunities to enhance our processes and contribute to improving the functionality of financial planning and reporting systems (EOS, Tableau, Power BI) to provide better insights. Your involvement will also extend to supporting finance and business change projects as required, while managing and developing your direct reports to ensure their growth and success. Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as a CUK 6. Offered as a full-time position, on a permanent basis, we provide hybrid work options from our head office in Southampton including up to two days from home.

• Relevant accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or MBA
• Experience of a Finance business partnering / strategic planning role
• Ability to co-ordinate inputs from multiple functions efficiently, being clear on requirements
• Ability to effectively communicate, co-ordinate and collaborate at varying levels in the organisation
• Ability to work unsupervised and deliver high quality work to tight deadlines
• Experienced in Microsoft Office- Oracle experience desirable
• Commercial awareness / business knowledge
• Excellent analysis, communication and presentation skills
• Proactive
  
  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.

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:
• Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
• Annual bonus
• A friendly welcome with help settling in
• Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
• Extensive learning and development opportunities
• Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
• Employee-led networks
• 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
• Onsite restaurant offering range of healthy cooked and grab and go meals
• Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal