Unilever
Wild Finance Director
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Wild Finance Director
Reporting into: Jack Winnack
Work Level: WL3X
Location: London (Wild Offices, The Oval / 100VE)
ABOUT THE ROLE
This is not a traditional Finance role — this is a role for someone with extreme ambition to act as the financial architect of Wild’s next phase of growth. Over the next 3 years, Wild will scale rapidly across markets and channels. The job of the Finance Director is to ensure we deliver that growth while step-changing profitability and financial excellence. You will sit at the centre of the business — translating strategy into performance, driving sharper decisions, and building a finance engine that fuels both growth and discipline.
WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE
1. Turn Strategy into Performance
- Own delivery of growth plans through sharp performance management
- Be the primary finance business partner to Marketing, DTC and Retail
- Drive fast, high-quality decision making across investment, pricing, and channel choices
- Ensure clear visibility of performance, risks and opportunities at all times
2. Accelerate Gross Margin to Fuel Growth
- Lead an aggressive GM expansion agenda
- Drive smart pricing, mix optimisation and retail commercial excellence
- Partner closely with Commercial, Supply Chain and Operations to unlock COGS savings
- Embed margin as a core decision lens across the organisation
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3. Instil Rigour on BMI & Overheads
- Drive disciplined, high-quality investment decisions across all functions
- Set the standard for cost control, prioritisation, and ROI mindset
- Partner functional leaders to ensure resources are deployed to highest-value opportunities
4. Build Financial Excellence at Scale
- Establish best-in-class, business-facing financial processes
- Upskill the organisation — making finance a true enabler, not a gatekeeper
- Deliver clear, simple and actionable reporting that drives behaviour
- Build a finance function that scales with the business
5. Build and Lead a High-Performing Finance Team
- Be a core leader within the Wild Finance team, helping step-change capability and impact
- Set a culture of high challenge with strong support and empowerment
- Coach and develop talent to operate at the next level of performance and ownership
- Build a team that combines entrepreneurial pace with financial rigour
HOW YOU WILL WIN
- Combine Unilever-level financial excellence with Wild’s speed, agility and entrepreneurial mindset
- Use finance as a competitive advantage, not just a control function
- Fully embrace AI and automation to reshape workflows, unlock productivity and elevate analytical power
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WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED
Experience
- 7+ years in Finance across business partnering, controlling and/or process excellence
- Strong track record of delivering tangible business impact
- Experience working across different businesses, markets or models is a plus
Profile
- Highly ambitious, hungry and driven — seeks outsized impact
- Commercially sharp — able to influence real business decisions
- Highly adaptable — can flex style across very different stakeholders
- Fast-moving and pragmatic — operates effectively in an entrepreneurial environment
- Relentless delivery mindset — focuses on outcomes, not process for process’ sake
WHY THIS ROLE
- Rare opportunity to shape the financial future of a high-growth scale-up
- Direct impact on both growth and profitability trajectory
- Build a finance function from good to exceptional
- Operate at the intersection of entrepreneurship and global scale
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