Finance Business Partner - Real Estate (6 month FTC)

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Posted:

18.04.2025

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02.06.2025

Job Description:

What You’ll Be Doing:

The Finance Team at McDonald’s are highly regarded across the business and have a great reputation for influencing, challenging and leading those at all levels, across all departments. The Finance team has a history of developing people, creating a breadth of experience by moving individuals through different roles within the Finance team as they progress their career at McDonald’s and ensuring high levels of exposure across the business.

We are looking to add to our dynamic team and this is a phenomenal opportunity to work at one of the most valuable and iconic brands in the world. This is the perfect opportunity for a newly qualified individual to make a move into a highly commercial, forward looking role. The key objective of the Real Estate Finance Business Partner is to work alongside the Property department to influence our new restaurant growth strategy and to improve the long term profitability of our existing estate.

You will have an influential role in shaping one of the biggest strategic growth drivers of the UK business over the next few years. As a result you will be accountable for wholistic analysis of multi-million pound judgements, and have regular exposure to senior executives. Despite the focus on Real Estate, the role touches many different aspects of the business, requiring you to work cross functionally with Franchising and Operations, amongst others to make recommendations that improve financial performance and ensure the long-term financial success of both McDonald’s and our Franchisees.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Build internal and external partnerships with the Property team to ensure we’re capturing all of the information which will influence our recommendations for financial decisions - from sales and revenue drivers, to costs and investments.
• Bring together these inputs to model the commercials for pipeline restaurants.
• Conduct analysis of new restaurant performance following opening, to feed into future pipeline store modeling.
• Reviewing Real Estate balance sheet accounts, working with the Property team and the Global Business Services (GBS) team to reconcile the accounts on a monthly basis.
• Work with the wider Finance team to support the annual financial planning process.

What You’ll Need:

• CIMA, ACA or ACCA qualified
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail - ability to breakdown problems whilst identifying trends and drawing conclusions
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills - ability to communicate sophisticated issues, adapting your style for different audiences
• Building relationships - ability to work cross-functionally, building strong relationships, while challenging the status quo
• Good presentation skills - able to influence through your presentations
• Ability to work in a team, lead your peers and challenge your seniors
• Self-motivated with good time management to deal with conflicting priorities in a fast paced environment

What You’ll Get:

• A collaborative and inclusive culture where your ideas and contributions are truly valued
• Direct influence on strategic direction and high-profile business initiatives
• Competitive salary plus benefits package, free parking, lunch, gym access.
• Hybrid working

Company Vision and Culture

Our Global vision is to build a better McDonald’s and in the UK and Ireland we are working hard to be the UK & Irelands best-loved restaurant company.

McDonald’s is defined by its culture. Our culture shapes and informs everything we think and everything we do. Our culture influences the way we interact with each other, and how we interact with customers, franchisees and suppliers. Our culture motivates and inspires us to attract and retain great talent, creating positive, energising, exceptional working environment for us all.

Our values drive our culture and shape our beliefs, our priorities and our actions. They influence the decisions we make, how we treat one another and how we show up as a brand to the world.

Serve: We put our customers and our people first
Inclusion: We open our doors to everyone
Integrity: We do the right thing
Community: We are good neighbours
Family: We get better together

At McDonald’s we are People from all Walks of Life...

People are at the heart of everything we do, and they make the McDonald’s experience. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture that means people can be their best authentic self in our restaurants and offices, which helps us to better serve our customers. We have a strong heritage of diversity and representation within our communities, which we are proud of. The diversity of our people, customers, Franchisees and suppliers gives us strength.

We do not tolerate inequality, injustice or discrimination of any kind. These are hugely important issues and a brand with our reach and relevance means we have a very meaningful role to play.

We also recognise our responsibility as a large employer to continue being active in our communities, helping to develop skills and drive aspirations that will help people to be more aware of the world of work and more successful within it, whether with McDonald’s or elsewhere.

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