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Video: McDonald's UK CFO on the internal challenges facing CFOs

CFO of McDonalds UK, John Park, talks about the internal challenges facing CFOs

Welcome back to our  video series, where we ask top-hitting financial directors and CFOs the big questions on the year ahead. Every week we publish new video interviews with influential CFOs.

Come back to find out what they have to say on the key issues, such as Brexit and cyber risk, and discover their biggest worries as finance leaders in 2017.

Today: CFO of McDonald’s UK, John Park, talks about the internal challenges facing CFOs.

About John Park 

John Park became CFO for McDonald’s UK in 2016, and is responsible for finance, supply chain and legal oversight.

Park joined the company in 2003 as an assistant operations accountant and over 14 years progressed up to finance director, then vice president of finance, before taking on the top finance role as CFO of McDonald’s UK.

Before joining McDonald’s, the Nottingham University-educated CFO worked in audit at KPMG, and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

About McDonald’s

McDonald’s is the world’s largest restaurant chain and has more than 34,000 restaurants worldwide, with 1,200 of them located in the UK.

After increasing its franchising organisation as part of its growth strategy, 70% of McDonald’s restaurants in the UK are now owned and operated by franchisees and the UK division serves approximately 3 million people every day, employing 97,000 people.

Led by British CEO, Steve Easterbrook, the chain is headquartered in the US and listed on the American NASDAQ exchange. The company’s UK division CEO is Paul Pomroy.

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