Job Purpose
The Financial Planning Manager for Pizza Hut Asia has responsibility for all the core elements of financial planning and reporting – including the development of the annual plan, target-setting for North and South Asia clusters, forecasting, and period/quarter reporting and provides critical analyses and data-driven insights to the Pizza Hut Asia and GFM Leadership team. This role delivers high-quality planning processes, provides robust financial insights, and enables data-driven decision-making for both short- and long-term business outcomes.
As a trusted financial partner to the Asia General Managers, the role ensures planning rigor, forecasting accuracy, and budget discipline across the cluster. The role also champions the development of dashboards, automated reporting, and tools to strengthen analytical capabilities and cost management across the region.
Key Responsibilities
Business Planning & Forecasting
- Lead annual operating plan, quarterly QxF and interim forecasting processes, and complete accurate and timely period and quarterly reporting
- Deliver timely business insights and analyses to the leadership team and cross-functional stakeholders, with a goal of continuous improvement in reporting and analytics capabilities
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve business financial results and share know-how across GFM Clusters
- Dynamically manage discretionary G&A, enabling robust assessment of trade-offs
Performance Management and Reporting
- Lead and engage in business through analytics across functions, global and leadership team, highlighting and aligning on key actions and recommending solutions.
- Financial lead in major business projects, building the business cases to understand relevant financial implications and providing key commercial insight in project forums.
- The Manager will manage and monitor the full P&Ls of the clusters on an ongoing basis and ensure effective control of costs, particularly within G&A.
- The individual is a key strategic partner to the Leadership Team, using data to dynamically advise on critical business decisions related to brand KPIs, risk mitigation, cost reduction, investments, and capturing new opportunities to positive impact the financial plan.
- The Manager will be empowered to identify emerging opportunities to enable step-change growth through the business and to support the GFM CFO and Asia GMs with the execution of these opportunities.
Reporting & Dashboards
- Support in dashboard creation and design and help with improving business intelligence and data-driven culture
- The manager will work closely with control on monitoring G&A and variances versus forecast.
- Support in streamlining and automating data collection process.
- Support the business in the reporting of sales performance.
Cross Functional Support
- Support cross-functional teams with analysis on profitability and cost reduction projects
Calendar & Cadence Management
- Design and manage the business rhythm for performance reviews, reporting, and planning cycles.
- Standardize tools and templates to ensure consistency and efficiency across the region.
Local Compliance Awareness
- Maintain an awareness of relevant Singapore business regulations and tax considerations that may impact regional planning, financial structuring, or operational assumptions.
- Collaborate with Finance and Legal teams to ensure business plans align with local compliance and reporting expectations where applicable.
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