Job Description
Set your sights on a future of finance with a role designed for aspiring professionals. The Accounts Payable Assistant at Carnival UK offers a unique blend of learning, growth, and hands-on experience in the heart of our finance department. It's your chance to start building a solid foundation in this field, contributing to our strategic goals while honing your analytical skills.
Role Overview
Responsible for the accurate and timely input of data from Suppliers invoices into the Finance System (Oracle AP).
Key accountabilities for The Accounts Payable Assistant include:
- To ensure timely and accurate data entry of non-purchase order invoices in line with departmental KPI’s and personal input targets set by Management
- To match invoices with purchase orders within the AP system and effectively assist in the resolution of matching discrepancies
- Visual screening and data input for non-oracle payments
- To administer working folder in a timely and efficient manner
This role is classified as CUK15 and is available on a full-time, permanent basis. We offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.
About you: the ideal candidate
You're someone who brings:
- Previous AP experience
- Competent with Microsoft Office
- Resilient – Ability to work under pressure and daily targets
In this role, your distinct personal attributes will be the key to standing out. We are on the lookout for candidates who excel beyond numerical expertise. If you possess qualities that can drive success in the financial sector, we want you on our team. Your ability to blend analytical skills with interpersonal strengths will set the foundation for innovation and growth within our finance department.
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.
Why join us?
Our Finance team isn’t just about numbers; it's about being part of a community that values growth, work-life balance, and wellbeing.
- Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
- Recognition scheme with prizes and awards
- 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
Take the next step
Due to the popularity of our roles and our commitment to finding the best talent, we might close applications earlier than advertised. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to become part of a team dedicated to creating unforgettable holiday happiness. Apply today to start your journey with us.
Recruitment Journey
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About Us
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.
