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How Kanzhun’s CFO Shift to Strategy Role Will Impact Kanzhun (BZ) Investors

Simply Wall St · 2d ago
  • Kanzhun Limited has reshuffled its leadership, with Chief Financial Officer and executive Director Phil Yu Zhang stepping down from those roles on December 11, 2025 to become Chief Strategy Officer, while Wenbei Wang becomes Deputy CFO and Yang Mu joins the board as an executive Director.
  • This move shifts a long-serving finance leader into a forward-looking strategy role while elevating investor relations and human resources executives into more influential positions.
  • We’ll now examine how moving the former CFO into a Chief Strategy Officer role may influence Kanzhun’s investment narrative and outlook.

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Kanzhun Investment Narrative Recap

To own Kanzhun, you need to believe its AI driven recruitment platform can keep attracting both employers and job seekers while defending margins in a competitive hiring market. The latest reshuffle, moving long-time CFO Phil Yu Zhang into a Chief Strategy Officer role and elevating investor relations and HR leaders, does not materially change the near term catalyst around AI enhancements or the key risk from intensifying competition and rising customer acquisition costs.

The most relevant recent announcement is Kanzhun’s Q3 2025 result, with revenue of RMB 2,163.28 million and net income of RMB 806.63 million, which highlighted strong profitability and operating leverage. Against that backdrop, shifting Phil Yu Zhang into a strategy post and adding HR and investor relations voices to senior leadership could influence how Kanzhun allocates resources to AI product development, SME hiring demand, and expansion into blue collar and lower tier-city segments.

But while the leadership changes may support execution, investors should still be aware that intensifying rivalry among recruitment platforms could...

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Kanzhun's narrative projects CN¥11.2 billion revenue and CN¥3.7 billion earnings by 2028. This requires 13.2% yearly revenue growth and about CN¥1.5 billion earnings increase from CN¥2.2 billion today.

Uncover how Kanzhun's forecasts yield a $25.98 fair value, a 28% upside to its current price.

Exploring Other Perspectives

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Three members of the Simply Wall St Community currently estimate Kanzhun’s fair value between US$18.95 and US$46.63, showing a wide spread of opinions. When you set those views against the risk of higher customer acquisition costs in a crowded recruitment market, it underlines why exploring several alternative perspectives on Kanzhun’s earnings resilience can be useful.

Explore 3 other fair value estimates on Kanzhun - why the stock might be worth 7% less than the current price!

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This article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned.