We recognise the value in having people with a variety of backgrounds, experience and skills in our business. That means the role requirements here should be seen as a guide, not a checklist. If you have more, less or different experiences, but really relevant skills, we’d love to hear from you.
We work flexibly and will help you to find a healthy balance of remote working and time in our fantastic Southampton office, collaborating, taking part in events and getting to know people that makes working with us so rewarding. We welcome the opportunity to discuss reduced hours and job share arrangements.
The Role
The Commerical Analyst will support the day-to-day management of refit expenses, engaging with Project Managers and external contractors to ensure accurate representation of project costs, as well as supporting the successful delivery of the Refit Lifecyle management governance and framework.
Working collaboratively across all departments in Carnival UK, this key role will work to continuously improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Refit Lifecycle Management Team.
Accountabilities include:
- Creation of Master cost control spreadsheets for each individual refit.
- Maintenance of budgets and allocation between budget codes at an individual ship level. Working closely with procurement for budget and scope queries.
- Regular reviews with Refit managers, and Project Managers to understand costs & purchase order updates against individual refit projects.
- Support the Commercial Manager with the collation of the senior quarterly and monthly reports that get shared with the senior leaders of CUK, the wider leaders of the corporation.
- Tactical planning focus up to 12 months ahead – communicating upcoming milestones and key activities. Responsible for managing Refit Lifecycle activity plan and delivering planning support within the management team as required.
- Support process review and process mapping work across Refit Lifecycle Management and workstreams. Working with the Refit Lifecycle team to ensure all risks and issues are identified, appropriately scored and allocated owners for resolution.
- Point of contact for various Finance team requests (including CIP aging, Attestation, Project updates and budget closures, recoding of incorrectly raised costs and 3 way reconciliations. Closure of all Capital Projects & OpEx budget codes).
Some periodic travel will also be required to dry docks as well as vessel visits to support the planning and preparation of the docking scope - providing summary level updates for the senior teams (SMT) of the spend to provide context to the investment being made.
Our role categories range from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President) so you can clearly see internal development opportunities. This role is a CUK10 and is offered on a full time permanent basis with hybrid working in our Southampton office (a minimum of 3 days per week office based).
About You
Fresh ideas and different perspectives are what excite us most and help us to succeed. Alongside bringing these to the role, you’ll also need:
- To be Process Driven in your approach, with strong attention to detail and ability to multi-task effectively
- Excellent interpersonal skills both verbal and written, able to work effectively with a variety of stakeholders across the business
- Proven experience of budget management
- Experience of working with computer-based planned maintenance and purchasing systems, with a knowledge of logistics operations and vendor management
A background of working in a marine technical environment would advantageous but not essential.
Being part of our team has its advantages…
We’re a holiday company so we know there’s more to life than work. Our comprehensive range of benefits are designed to help your personal and financial health and wellbeing.
- Home and office-based hybrid working, working with 3 days per week in the office
- Recognition scheme with prizes and awards
- Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
- Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
- Extensive learning and development opportunities
- Employee-led networks
- 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
- Onsite restaurant offering range of healthy cooked and grab and go meals
- Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal
- Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
- Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
- A friendly welcome with help settling in
Please note: 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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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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