Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Job Description

With over 60 years of history, Pizza Hut has become the world's largest pizza company, with 18,000+ stores across 100 countries. At Pizza Hut, our vision is to be the younger & more everyday leaders in global pizza culture, and our purpose is to connect people together through the joy of pizza. We're proud to be an International Operating Market of nearly 1,300 Pizza Huts across the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Canada.

We're passionate about delivering extraordinary experiences to our beloved customers, keeping our team members happy, and collaborating with our franchisees who operate across our Delivery and Restaurant Huts. As part of the YUM! Brands family, which includes KFC, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill, Pizza Hut proudly stands alongside the largest restaurant group worldwide. Together, we strive for culinary excellence and unmatched dining experiences, whether in our restaurants or at home.

We are looking for a high-performing, independent, commercially savvy FP&A Manager to join our International Operated Markets (IOM) Finance team on a 12-month parental leave cover. This is a critical and high-impact role, partnering across four key markets (UK, France, Canada, Germany) to lead cost base management, deliver financial insights, and influence strategic decisions. The successful candidate will thrive in a high-performing team, demonstrate resilience in the face of challenge, and bring both attention to detail and a commercial mindset to their work.

You'll need to be confident working virtually, across time zones and stakeholders, while maintaining excellent financial discipline and communication.

• Lead cross-market financial processes
  Develop, oversee, and own the annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and monthly reporting cycles across UK, France, Canada, and Germany. This includes consolidating individual market data into a unified IOM view and ensuring timely accuracy.

• Advanced variance & trend analysis
  Deliver detailed variance analysis, identifying underlying trends and drivers. Translate these into actionable insights and recommendations to inform senior leadership and drive performance

• Strategic financial modelling
  Build and maintain robust financial models, including scenario and sensitivity analyses to support business planning, G&A cost management, and decision-making under constrained finance conditions

• Commercial partnering & stakeholder management
  Act as a virtual trusted advisor to multiple and wide-ranging stakeholders across CAD, FR, UK, and DE. Proactively understand their drivers, engage in forecasting dialogues, and challenge assumptions with clear, impactful financial storytelling

• Dashboarding & KPI monitoring
  Develop and maintain management dashboards that track key performance indicators (e.g., revenue, cost drivers, margin trends, G&A spend), with clear visualizations to support decision-making and cost control monitoring.

• Performance reporting for leadership
  Prepare/lead monthly or quarterly management reporting packs, summarising financial performance, variance drivers, and strategic outlook, especially as the business navigates tight G&A pressures.

• Process optimization
  Identify and implement improvements in financial planning processes, such as speeding up reporting cycles, enhancing data accuracy, automating transactional inputs, or introducing standard templates to streamline cross-border consolidation, and leverage technology and AI to support process optimization.

• Cross-timezone collaboration & flexibility
  Be prepared to occasionally flex hours to align with stakeholder teams in Europe and North America, ensuring engagement across time zones and responsiveness during critical planning cycles or messaging sensitive financial updates.

• 5+ years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) or equivalent finance roles.
• Strong technical capability in financial modelling, forecasting, budgeting, and performance analysis.
• Advanced Excel and systems proficiency (e.g. PowerPoint, Oracle, TM1, Power BI).
• Excellent communication skills: able to "tell the story" behind the numbers and influence decisions.
• Proven ability to build virtual relationships and work across diverse geographies and time zones.
• Resilient mindset, with experience managing business challenges or working in cost-constrained environments.
• Located in or eligible to work in London, UK or Toronto, Canada (remote/hybrid flexibility available).

• Professional qualification (or in progress): CIMA, ACA, ACCA, CFA, CPA or similar.
• Experience working within a global or matrixed organisation.
• Previous exposure to restaurant, retail, consumer goods, or franchise businesses is a plus.
• Demonstrated success working on cross-functional or strategic finance projects.

• Line manager:
  Director of Strategy & FP&A (IOM)
• FP&A team across the IOM
• Commercial Finance Teams across Pizza Hut IOM, Global and Yum!
• Wider Control Finance team across Pizza…