Financial Analyst MEA

Posted 22 Days Ago
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Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZAF
Hybrid
Mid level
Food
The Role
Support regional financial decision-making through forecasting, scenario analysis, and campaign performance evaluation. Maintain weekly/monthly sales and transaction reports, dashboards, and PL forecasts. Monitor franchise collections and bad debt forecasting. Partner with control and supply chain teams, produce insights for optimization, and support ad-hoc finance projects and stakeholder reporting.
Summary Generated by Built In

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

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

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
     

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related field
  • Minimum of 3-5 years related experience
  • Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Excel
  • Proficient knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Power BI
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills across all levels
  • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced corporate office environment

Yum! Brands Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Yum! Brands and has not been reviewed or approved by Yum! Brands.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Corporate roles include four weeks of vacation, year‑round half‑day Fridays, company holidays, dedicated “Live Well” days, and paid volunteer days. These policies contribute meaningfully to overall compensation value for corporate employees.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Offerings include free access to mental‑health counselors, onsite/virtual wellness tools, onsite gyms in select offices, and wellbeing discounts. Smoking‑cessation and weight‑management programs further bolster lifestyle support.
  • Parental & Family Support Benefits span family‑planning coverage such as adoption, fertility, and baby‑bonding leave. Corporate materials also note enhanced parental leave for U.S. corporate employees.

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The Company
HQ: Louisville, KY
6,056 Employees
Year Founded: 1997

What We Do

Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, and its subsidiaries franchise or operate a system of over 55,000 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.

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