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A job opportunity
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A job opportunity exists for the right candidate in Johannesburg
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FP&A Manager – Partners Division (PD)
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 Employment Type: Permanent
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Reference No: 1000286
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Johannesburg
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Employment Equity:
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Historically disadvantaged South Africans will be given preference.
Nando's shall apply the affirmative action principals as set out in the Employment Equity Policy.
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Requirements:
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Job Purpose:
Provide hands-on FP&A support to the Partners Division CFO through rigorous budget and forecast analysis, functional cost visibility, weekly trading insights, period-end performance reviews and deep commercial diagnostics across joint ventures and licensed markets. Work with market finance, functional leaders and Brand Office to validate and interpret reported information, explain underlying drivers, highlight risks and opportunities and recommend practical actions. Use advanced analytics, AI and automation responsibly to improve insight quality, speed and forward-looking decision support.
Key Responsibilities:
• Support the CFO with PD budget and forecast process by preparing analytical templates, coordinating market and functional inputs, tracking submissions and consolidating working schedules for review.
• Work directly with PD functional budget owners to build and analyse detailed headcount, payroll, travel, marketing, technology, professional fees and other overhead plans; reconcile assumptions with prior-year actuals and run-rates.
• Analyse market and functional budget submissions, testing volume, pricing, cost, phasing, new restaurant, capex and cash assumptions; flag gaps, duplication, inconsistencies and risks for CFO challenge.
• Prepare budget bridges, functional cost summaries, sensitivity cases and supporting PD budget schedules;
• Maintain a clear view of approved functional budgets, commitments, savings initiatives and expenditure phasing throughout the year.
• Conduct independent deep dives into restaurant, market and channel profitability, four-wall EBITDA, contribution margins, operating leverage and flow-through of incremental sales to profit.
• Decompose LFL sales into transactions, average spend, price, mix and channel; analyse food and labour costs, productivity, occupancy, controllable expenses and structural margin differences.
• Benchmark comparable restaurants and markets, identify outliers and distinguish timing effects from persistent underperformance; quantify root causes and potential improvement levers.
• Evaluate pricing, promotions, delivery economics, restaurant openings/closures, capex and other commercial initiatives through scenarios, unit economics and investment-return analysis.
• Prepare the weekly PD trading and performance analysis, reviewing market sales, LFL, transactions, openings, budget gaps and material movements; flag exceptions and early warning signals.
• Analyse period-end PD performance against budget, latest forecast and prior year, including market contributions, royalties and fees, central and functional costs, EBITDA and material below-EBITDA movements.
• Prepare clear variance bridges separating volume, price/mix, margin, timing, one-offs, FX and cost run-rate effects; distinguish genuine performance issues from accounting or reporting differences.
• Monitor each function’s actual spend versus budget, commitments, headcount, phasing and expected full-year landing; follow up with cost owners on explanations and corrective actions.
• Develop CFO-ready weekly highlights, period review narratives and focused deep dives, with quantified risks, opportunities, recommendations and action tracking.
• Build reusable analytical models, exception-based dashboards and drill-down views with Power BI, Power Query and other appropriate tools, partnering with BI and Brand Office teams.
• Automate recurring data preparation, budget-to-actual bridges, functional cost tracking and anomaly screening where this reduces manual effort and improves analytical depth.
• Explore AI-supported diagnostics, predictive alerts and narrative generation, validating outputs and protecting confidential financial and commercial information.
• Maintain consistent metric definitions, version control, model documentation and reconciliation of analysis to official Brand Office reporting.
Minimum Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics.
• Strong financial modelling, management accounting and commercial analysis capability.
• 5+ years in FP&A, commercial finance or financial analysis, ideally in a multi-entity environment.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience supporting budgets, functional cost planning, forecasts and recurring actual-versus-budget reviews.
• Strong ability to interrogate management reports, reconcile data, build models and present concise recommendations to senior finance leaders.
• Experience with restaurant-, location-, channel- or business-unit profitability analysis.
Advantageous Requirements:
• CFA, CIMA, ACCA, CPA, CA or MBA desirable.
• Restaurant, franchise, hospitality or multi-site retail exposure advantageous.
• Restaurant, franchising or multi-market experience.
• Hands-on exposure to AI-assisted FP&A, predictive modelling, automated reporting or anomaly detection.
• Power BI, Power Query, SQL, Python or low-code automation experience.
• Familiarity with Vena or another enterprise planning platform (nice to have).
• Exposure to capital allocation, investment appraisal and liquidity forecasting.
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Remuneration:
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Starting Date:
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2026/11/12
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PLEASE NOTE
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- Closing date: 2026/11/20
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