Senior Commercial Finance Analyst – 12m FTC

Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence

Senior Analyst supporting UK Dine In commercial finance at Pizza Hut. Delivering insights and leading financial analysis on promotions and profitability.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the Dine In weekly trading cycle, including performance commentary and clear insight on drivers (traffic, conversion, ticket, mix, promo response, daypart, day-of-week).
Lead the monthly Dine In performance cadence, translating trading outcomes into a clear P&L narrative from Sales → Gross Margin → Labour/Semis → EBITDA.
Track and evaluate effectiveness of key initiatives (media changes, promotional coverage, menu updates, operational initiatives), providing clear “so what / now what” recommendations.
Partner with Operations and Marketing to identify and quantify growth opportunities (daypart expansion, attachment rates, upsell, experience-led initiatives).
Build and continuously improve simple, insight led Dine In dashboards and KPI views (focus on clarity over volume).
Develop robust financial business cases for promotions, value propositions, CRM/targeted offers and loyalty initiatives, including: Incrementality vs cannibalisation; AOV and mix impact; Margin flow-through and cost-to-serve; EBITDA impact and sensitivity analysis.
Partner with Marketing, CRM and Digital teams to define clear success metrics and measurement frameworks.
Conduct post-campaign evaluations and capture actionable learnings to improve future investment decisions.
Support pricing analysis across all channels, with a Dine In lens (price ladders, bundles, entry price points, promotional architecture).
Provide recommendations that balance value perception, competitive positioning and profitability.
Analyse end-to-end profitability from Sales through to EBITDA.
Identify opportunities to improve franchisee profitability, particularly those influenced by pricing and promotional design.
Support the commercial planning cycle, including forecast inputs, risks and opportunities, and key assumptions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong commercial judgement and analytical rigour.
Clear and confident communicator, able to land a performance story with actions.
Comfortable operating at pace within weekly trading cycles.
Effective cross-functional stakeholder management.
CIMA or ACCA (qualified or part-qualified preferred).
Typically 3+ years’ experience in commercial finance or analytical roles, with exposure to trading, pricing, promotions or performance reporting.
Strong financial modelling capability and ability to translate data into clear commercial decisions.
Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills required.
Power BI and/or SQL beneficial but not essential.
Experience within QSR, retail, hospitality or another consumer trading environment preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Continuous improvement mindset, simplifying reporting, automating processes and driving better insight.

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial modellingdata analysisperformance reportingpricing analysispromotional designEBITDA analysisKPI developmentcommercial judgementanalytical rigourinsight generation

Soft Skills

clear communicationstakeholder managementcross-functional collaborationactionable recommendationsperformance storytellingadaptabilityproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingdecision-makingtime management

Certifications

CIMAACCA