Management Accountant

Management Accountant 

Southampton 

Salary: Competitive + Bonus 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Management Accountant within the Commercial Finance department at Carnival UK’s Head office in Southampton.

Within this role you will deal with the following:

• leading a team of 4 direct reports
• streamline processes and maximise resources to challenge existing thinking to drive out waste and improve processes and performance
• ensuring and enhancing financial control
• ensuring prompt payment to concessionaires
• review of accounting reconciliations
• ensuring compliance with appropriate corporate policies

Your activities will include:

• Proactive liaison with the Business on their reported financial results, to drive a better understanding of activities and performance.
• Sets and creates the team agenda to improve performance and deliver change
• Analysis, review and presentation of financial information to inform clearer understanding of issues
• Communication and liaison with ship and shore based teams to establish effective and efficient financial processes
• Ensuring appropriate prioritisation of workload within the team to ensure prompt payments for concessionaire partners
• Ensuring and enhancing financial control
• Reviewing journals relating to on board revenue

Key to this role will be your ability to develop strong relationships and processes that enable the accurate reporting, understanding and interpretation of financial performance, then use this reporting to influence others to deliver change.

You will be self motivated, as well as being able to work well within a team to deliver exceptional commercial and operational performance. You will also have excellent attention to detail and will have superb numeracy.

About Us

Carnival UK is the operating company for P&O Cruises & Cunard. We provide unforgettable holiday experiences and operate a winning culture to achieve standout success.

For over 175 years, our iconic ships have been defining sophisticated ocean travel. Our Cunard ships have always been The Most Famous Ocean Liners in the World.  We continue our legacy of luxury ocean travel with our flagship Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth, with Queen Mary 2 providing the only regularly scheduled transatlantic service between Southampton and New York.

P&O Cruises has a proud and long tradition, with seven ships including our flagship Britannia which joined our fleet in March 2015.  We offer holidays tailored to British tastes combining genuine service, a sense of occasion and attention to detail, ensuring passengers have the holiday of a lifetime, every time.

It takes great passion and real dedication to maintain our position at the top. That’s why extraordinary, passionate people are at the heart of our journey delivering the highest standards to our valued customers. With support to help you reach your potential, attractive company benefits and incredible employee offers on discounted cruises we want your career with us to be successful and fun.  Join us on our journey, apply now.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.