Accounts Payable Analyst

The Accounts Payable Analyst is responsible for ensuring accurate and timely payments to suppliers and managing the entire accounts payable (AP) process. This role involves various tasks such as ensuring accurate month-end accruals, compliance with internal control policies, liaising with internal and external stakeholders, and supporting the team in timely reporting of results to management.

Responsibilities
• Ensure timely and accurate completion of month-end and quarter-end reporting and month-end accruals.
• Ensure accurate and timely payments to suppliers.
• Ensure compliance with internal control policies, guidelines, and practices.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders (e.g., banks, vendors, departments) as required.
• Validate invoices for tax compliance, prepare VAT filings and refunds.
• Handle internal and international intercompany recharges and reconciliations.
• Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations and schedules for assigned accounts to ensure integrity and validation.
• Responsible for preparing the weekly payment runs for each company for review by the management.
• Provide support in internal and external audits.

Minimum Job Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field
• 3+ years of experience in accounting and reporting.
• Strong process-oriented mindset with high attention to detail.
• Ability to manage deadlines effectively, prioritize work tasks, and handle a dynamic work environment.
• Experience in VAT filing.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complex information and draw insightful conclusions.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong IT skills, specifically in MS Excel, and exposure to an ERP system, preferably JD Edwards.

Work Environment

This role is based out of our Restaurant Support Centre (RSC) in Woking (around 25 minutes be train from London Waterloo) and a minimum of 1 day per week in the RSC is required, plus occasional other days for team or market meetings.

Why Yum! Brands? (Work Hard, Pay-Hard)

We truly believe that where you work matters, and we know a thing or two about what makes employees happy. 

• Half-day Fridays
• Hybrid work arrangement
• A world-famous recognition culture
• Attractive and flexible employee benefits
• Company and performance-related bonus
• Competitive parental leave and flexible return to work options
• Quarterly Recharge/Live Well Days across the organization to promote mental health and well-being

Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, and its subsidiaries franchise or operate a system of over 59,000 restaurants in more than 155 countries and territories under the company’s concepts – KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and 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. Habit Burger & Grill is a fast casual restaurant concept specializing in made-to-order chargrilled burgers, sandwiches and more. In 2024, Yum! was named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index North America, and the company was recognized among TIME Magazine’s list of Best Companies for Future Leaders, Newsweek’s list of America’s Most Responsible Companies and USA Today’s America’s Climate Leaders. Yum! also received widespread recognition in 2023, including being listed on the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index; and Forbes’ list of America’s Best Employers for Diversity. In addition, KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut brands were ranked in the top five of Entrepreneur’s Top Global Franchises Ranking for 2023.