Senior Manager, Financial Planning

Responsibilities

Financial & Strategic Planning

• Lead financial planning for our 3-year, annual, and quarterly P&L forecasts
• Lead the management of HQ and international BMU budgeting and planning processes through direct reports.
• 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 Yum! Control team to streamline period-end reporting processes and enhance the accuracy and reliability of financial data.
• Communicate forecasts results to the KFC Leadership Team and the Yum Corporate planning team through compelling story telling with data.
• 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

• Conduct in-depth analysis of financial metrics, including trend analysis and variance assessment, to provide actionable recommendations for optimizing financial performance.
• In collaboration with the global Strategy team, assist in evaluating the financial health of franchisees, analyzing pre/post-acquisition performance.
• Identify and assess the financial implications of organizational transformation and change within the KFC Global division, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and financial targets.
• Analyze the impact of brand strategic initiatives on forecasts and make recommendations to optimize allocation of financial resources.
• Lead finance modernization effort and associated change management within the KFC division (e.g., Global Planning system)
  
  
  

Team Leadership

• 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 BMU 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.
  
  
  

Requirements

• Education/Certifications
  
• Required: Undergraduate Degree from accredited 4-year university in Finance, Accounting or Business Management
• Preferred: MBA
  
• Experience
  
• Required:
  
• 8+ years relevant work experience in Financial Planning & Analysis role, finance, strategic or management consulting.
• Effective leadership of others focused on driving results and professional growth
• Exceptional internal motivation, intellectual curiosity, insightfulness, and desire to have a large impact on our organization
• Superior commercial acumen
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changing business or organizational dynamics
• Demonstrated success working with cross functional teams
• Proven interpersonal and communication skills to all levels of 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
  
• Preferred:
  
• Prior experience in global, matrixed organization
• Prior experience in the QSR industry
  
  

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.