Finance BP - Investment & Planning (12mo FTC) | Hybrid

Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC); Woking; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working 2 days a week from WOKR

Up to 11% pension

Fri-Yay finishes

25 days holiday

Live Well Days

Bonus scheme

Private healthcare

Parental leave

Study support

Income protection

Life cover

25% off the chicken

Job summary

KFC UK is seeking a bright, commercially curious Finance Business Partner - Investment & Planning (12 Month Maternity FTC) to join our Planning team. You’ll help steer over £100m of annual spend, collaborating with senior leaders including the CMO, CPO, CGO and COO.

You’ll blend financial discipline with commercial judgment, shaping investment decisions, forecasting, and insightful reporting. This role requires trust, discretion and strong stakeholder influence across major budgets.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial finance, FP&A or Finance Business Partnering experience.
• Experience partnering with and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Strong forecasting, budgeting and financial analysis capability.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to make financial information accessible to different audiences.
• Strong Excel and financial modelling skills.
• Experience managing significant investment or functional budgets would be beneficial.
• An accountancy qualification (ACA, CIMA, CA or ACCA).

Responsibilities

• Shape our advertising investment: Partner our CMO and Marketing Director across advertising spend, including media, production and insights.
• Understand the returns we're generating, challenge where and how we invest and help Marketing make informed choices and trade-offs across the budget.
• Partner our senior leaders: Work directly with our CPO, CGO and COO across their functional budgets.
• Build trusted relationships, provide clear visibility of spend and outlook and help leaders make informed decisions about where to prioritise investment.
• Own the forecast: Lead forecasting across Advertising and functional budgets through quarterly forecasts, our Annual Operating Plan and longer-term planning.
• Challenge assumptions and make sure changes, risks and opportunities are identified early and accurately reflected in our outlook.
• Get underneath the numbers: Own period-end reporting across your areas, partnering closely with Financial Control to ensure accuracy, understand performance and investigate variances.
• Turn information into clear, actionable insight for our senior leaders.
• Challenge how we do things: Bring an external and commercial mindset to how we spend.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, save and reinvest, challenge historic ways of working and help us make smarter choices about where our money can have the biggest impact.
• Build trust: You'll have access to commercially sensitive and confidential information, so you'll need to operate with discretion, sound judgement and integrity while building strong relationships across the business.

Skills

Commercial finance

FP&A

Finance partnering

Forecasting

Budgeting

Financial analysis

Communication

Education

ACA, CIMA, CA or ACCA

Tools

Excel

Job description

KFC UK is seeking a bright, commercially curious Finance Business Partner - Investment & Planning (12 Month Maternity FTC) to join our Planning team. You’ll help steer over £100m of annual spend, collaborating with senior leaders including the CMO, CPO, CGO and COO.

You’ll blend financial discipline with commercial judgment, shaping investment decisions, forecasting, and insightful reporting. This role requires trust, discretion and strong stakeholder influence across major budgets.