About the Job

Job Description

Are you aiming for a future in Human Resources? The Senior Advisor, Payroll Administration at Carnival UK offers a unique blend of learning, growth, and hands‑on experience in the heart of our People department. It's your chance to start building a solid foundation in this field, contributing to our goals across the organisation.

Job Description

Are you aiming for a future in Human Resources? The Senior Advisor, Payroll Administration at Carnival UK offers a unique blend of learning, growth, and hands‑on experience in the heart of our People department. It's your chance to start building a solid foundation in this field, contributing to our goals across the organisation.

Role Overview

You’ll join our People and Payroll Operations team within People Services. Reporting to the Manager, Operations and Payroll, you’ll help make sure colleagues across the business are paid correctly and on time. This role suits someone who enjoys data, numbers and systems. It’s a hands‑on payroll and HR systems role where accuracy, analysis and structured thinking make a real difference to colleagues every pay day.

Key accountabilities for Senior Advisor, Payroll Administration include:

• Using Excel to apply payroll rules and calculations accurately, covering variable pay, sickness absence, family‑friendly payments and employee benefits
• Processing payroll inputs, benefits and deductions across the employee lifecycle, including starters, leavers, contractual changes, pensions and HMRC‑related activity
• Maintaining the organisational structure within Oracle, so that people data and reporting lines stay accurate and joined up
• Carrying out quality assurance checks on payroll and HR transactions to spot and resolve discrepancies before they affect colleagues

This role is classified as CUK11 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 are more than just your CV. You're someone who brings:

• Strong mathematical and analytical skills, with confident, advanced use of Excel
• A methodical, rules‑driven approach to payroll tasks, with excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Systems thinking and an interest in how HR systems and organisational structures fit together
• Previous payroll experience, or a background in finance, along with discretion when handling confidential data

In this role, your unique personal attributes will be essential to distinguishing yourself. If you possess qualities that can drive success, we want you in our People Team. Your ability to blend your strengths with innovative thinking will lay the groundwork for growth within our 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 People Team are about being part of a community that values growth, work‑life balance, and wellbeing.

Read our employee experience guide to learn more about life as a Carnival UK colleague here.

• 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

Recruitment Journey

For more information on your recruitment journey, please visit our Candidate Journey Map.

About Us

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.

#J-18808-Ljbffr