Director FP&A

• Lead the Group’s annual budget, rolling forecast, and long-range planning processes across all brands, regions, and business units.
• Ensure financial plans reflect revenue drivers, capacity deployment, pricing strategy, and market level performance across river and ocean cruise operations
• Design, develop, and continuously enhance forecasting and planning tools, leveraging existing systems and, where appropriate, new software solutions to improve accuracy, scalability, and efficiency.
• Maintain robust forecasting models covering revenue and operating expenditure.

• Pricing, Revenue & Commercial Performance
• Play an active role in group pricing exercises, providing financial analysis and challenge on proposed pricing, discounts, and promotional strategies.
• Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, and Revenue Management to support pricing decisions, yield optimisation, and revenue maximisation by brand, market, itinerary, and vessel.
• Analyse pricing outcomes post implementation and assess impact on revenue, margin, occupancy, and booking behaviour.
• Ensure pricing assumptions are consistently reflected in forecasts, budgets, and long-term plans.

• Performance Management & Analysis
• Deliver consolidated group performance reporting, including variance analysis versus budget, forecast, and prior periods.
• Develop and maintain KPIs focused on revenue growth, pricing effectiveness, yield, margin performance, and return on assets.
• Proactively identify risks and opportunities impacting revenue and profitability and escalate insights to senior management.

• Strategic & Investment Support
• Support strategic initiatives, fleet deployment decisions, and business cases with rigorous financial and pricing analysis.
• Provide financial insight into capacity planning, new vessel introductions, and long-term asset utilisation.
• Support scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis, with particular focus on pricing, demand, and revenue sustainability.

• Governance, Consistency & Data Integrity
• Ensure accuracy, integrity, and consistency of financial data, assumptions, and methodologies across the Group.
• Establish and maintain group FP&A standards, processes, and reporting timelines.
• Work closely with Accounting, Treasury, and Tax to ensure alignment between pricing decisions, operational performance, and financial outcomes.

• Lead and develop the Group FP&A function, including regional and functional FP&A resources where applicable.
• Act as a senior finance partner to the Executive Team, market heads, and commercial leadership.
• Present financial, pricing, and revenue insights to senior management and, where required, the Board.

• A degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field is required.
• 10–15 years of experience in Finance, preferably with significant exposure to FP&A.
• Highly analytical, commercially driven, and revenue focused.
• Proactive and confident in challenging assumptions, particularly around pricing and revenue.
• Strong communicator with the ability to influence senior commercial and operational stakeholders.
• Experience in supporting senior executives in strategic and commercial decision making.
• Significant experience in FP&A and team management within a complex, multi-entity, international organisation.
• Strong commercial focus with proven involvement in pricing, revenue analysis, and yield management.
• Advanced financial modelling, forecasting, and scenario analysis capability.
• Experience with analytical and reporting tools such as Power BI is highly desirable.
• The role will require occasional travel (approximately 3–4 short trips per year).

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