Yum! Brands

Financial Analyst MEA

Yum! Brands  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Onsite)  •  8 hours ago
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Job Description

Pizza Hut, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., was founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas, and is a global leader in the pizza category with nearly 20,000 restaurants across more than 110 markets and territories. Known for innovations like Original® Pan and Original® Stuffed Crust pizzas, the brand has a strong legacy of firsts, including the world’s first online food order in 1994. Today, Pizza Hut continues to lead in the digital and technology space, with over half of its transactions coming from digital orders. It also focuses on positive impact through its commitments to More Equity, Less Carbon, and Better Packaging. This position is responsible for supporting the business on decision-making across different initiatives, takes charge of monthly and weekly reporting and support managing and forecasting collections.

Responsibilities:

Business Partnering and Analysis (50%)
•Build simple business cases for campaigns and innovation, forecasting sales, transactions, Food costs and F&P.
•Support go/no-go decisions through basic forecasting and scenario analysis.
•Validate assumptions with Finance and Supply Chain where needed
•Analyze campaign and innovation performance vs. plan.
•Assess incrementality, product mix changes, and overall sales impact.
•Summarize learnings and recommendations for future planning.
•Support regular financial reporting for internal and external stakeholders.
•Track and compare performance across co-op markets.
•Identify what worked well, what didn’t, and key risks or opportunities.
•Support ongoing optimization with timely insights.
•Maintain weekly and monthly reports on sales and transactions, including menu-level performance.
•Develop and maintain consolidated dashboards and scorecards for consistent tracking across markets.
•Include brand health indicators (e.g. YouGov data) where relevant.

Reporting (30%)
•Partnering with control team on reviewing results and making sure to report with accuracy and timeliness.
•Analysis of period financial performance for the region and their impact on GFM overall performance.
•Support in forecasting sales and PL

Collections (10%)
•Support monitoring, compliance, and collection with all payment obligations required under the Pizza Hut Franchise Agreement (includes royalty, advertising, rent & other miscellaneous payments).
•Help drive the forecasting and management of bad debt.

Ad-hoc Requests (10%)
•Support Pizza Hut Finance Team as needed on ad-hoc projects and various strategic initiatives.

Qualifications:

  • Education/Certifications – bachelor’s degree in finance / accounting or related field required
  • Years of Experience – Minimum of 3-5 years related experience.
  • Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office (primarily Excel and PowerPoint).
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Power BI are a plus.
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate across all levels.
  • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced corporate office environment
Yum! Brands

About Yum! Brands

Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, and its subsidiaries franchise or operate a system of over 60,000 restaurants in more than 155 countries and territories under the Company’s concepts – KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and the Habit Burger Grill. The Company's KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut brands are global leaders of the chicken, Mexican-style food, and pizza categories, respectively. The Habit Burger Grill is a fast casual restaurant concept specializing in made-to-order chargrilled burgers, sandwiches and more.

What makes Yum! a great place to work? It's our people. As the world's largest restaurant company, we invest in people capability so that our global workforce can make the most of their careers. With ongoing opportunities for personal and professional success, we've built a culture that rewards and recognizes great effort while providing the flexibility that is so important to all of us.

Industry
Food & Beverage
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Louisville, KY
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
yum.com
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