Senior Manager, Financial Planning

6 days ago

Plano, United States Yum! Brands Full time
Job Description

The Financial Planning Manager will need to have strong stakeholder management skills and commercial acumen to succeed. He or she will also need to have a strong sense of accountability, urgency and ownership. This role is a great fit for an individual looking for significant stretch and growth, providing a clear steppingstone into a senior management role in a vibrant and entrepreneurial company.

Responsibilities

Financial & Strategic Planning
  • Lead the financial planning for our 3 year, annual & quarterly P&L forecasts
  • Lead team in the management of HQ and international BMUs budgeting and planning processes
  • Facilitate strategic planning discussions with international BMU leaders to enhance budgeting accuracy and improve financial performance metrics, such as PerOp, SSSG, G&A and NNUs
  • Collaborate closely with the control team to streamline period-end reporting processes and enhance the accuracy and reliability of financial data
  • Develop compelling presentation to communicate forecasts results to the KFC Leadership team and the Yum Corporate planning team
  • Implement best-in-class FP&A processes to ensure the accuracy of financial forecasts
  • Leverage digital dashboards and other advanced tools to enhance data visualization and decision-making capabilities.
Financial Analytics & Transformation
  • Financial metrics analysis: Conduct in-depth analysis of financial metrics, including trend analysis and variance assessment, to provide actionable recommendations for optimizing financial performance.
  • Franchisee analysis: in collaboration with the strategy team, assist in evaluating the health of franchisees, analyzing pre/post acquisition performance
  • Business transformation: Identify and assess the financial implications of organizational changes within the KFC Global division, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and financial targets.
  • Strategic initiatives: Analyze the impact of the strategic initiatives into our forecasts and make recommendation to optimizing allocation of financial resources
  • Finance modernization: Lead finance modernization effort and associated change management within the KFC division, e.g. Global Planning system
Team leader
  • Provide coaching and leadership to a team of 2-3 direct reports, fostering their professional development and ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
  • Collaborate and build credibility with international BMUs finance leaders to gain support for analysis and recommendations
  • Facilitate cohesion and a sense of unity among stakeholders within the finance function, fostering a shared identity as "one finance" to enhance collaboration and effectiveness.
  • Engage with a diverse range of stakeholders, including Yum Corporate planning, Tax, Legal, and Control teams, to ensure alignment and collaboration on key initiatives and projects.
Minimum Requirements:
  • Exceptional internal motivation, intellectual curiosity, insightful thinking, and desire to have a large impact on our organization
  • Undergraduate Degree from accredited 4-year university in Finance, Accounting or Business Management required; MBA preferred
  • 15+ years relevant work experience in Financial Planning & Analysis role, finance, strategic or management consulting.
  • Exceptional internal motivation, intellectual curiosity, insightful thinking and desire to have a large impact on our organization
  • Comfortable with change; ability to work in a fast-paced environment
  • Demonstrated success working with cross functional teams
  • Proven communications skills-up and down the organization
  • Ability to succinctly interpret data for executives and frame business issues in a straightforward manner
  • Superior analytical skills including experience with financial modeling
  • Strong interpersonal skills required.


About Us

Who is KFC?

KFC, a subsidiary of Yum Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM.), is a global chicken restaurant brand with a rich, decades-long history of success and innovation. It all started with one cook, Colonel Harland Sanders, who believed in doing things "the hard way," because nothing ever got done right by cutting corners. Hard work, hospitality and integrity are still core to our brand today.

While we're grounded in our heritage, we're always looking forward to the future and evolving to make it easier for our customers to enjoy our chicken. Through digital innovation, our goal is to make KFC available everywhere, implementing a frictionless & friendly experience leveraging scalable technology stack and standards and accelerating rollouts via multiple channels. And we're growing... a new KFC restaurant opens somewhere in the world every six hours.

As we grow, KFC is committed to doing so responsibly through commitments like our 2025 global plastic packaging goal and the KFC Harvest program, which to date has donated over 82 million pounds of food to our local communities around the world. Our purposes is feeding people's potential, whether that means helping team members get through school, turn their passion for fried chicken into a career, or being a positive force in our communities. We fight inequality and believe in all people. Everyone has a seat at our table: from millionaires to truck drivers, to our more than 800,000 Team Members, to our customers around the world, KFC treats everyone like family.

Our people are what make us distinctively KFC, and we value every opportunity to celebrate the unique perspectives and backgrounds they bring to our company. To learn more about KFC Global, check out our company page here.

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