Head of Corporate Finance and Transformation, Wellbeing

Job Description Overview

Unilever has set out the bold ambition to be the world’s leading wellness organization.Our Wellbeing Collective(WBC)has bold ambitions to be a leader in the industry, driven by a portfolio of Wellbeing and Lifestyle brands.

Over the past6years Unilever hasacquired7 brands that embodythe Wellbeingpurpose of health as a lifestyle pursuit. This portfolio of millennial,digitalfirst, narrowcasting brands includesEquilibra, Olly, Smarty Pants Vitamins, Liquid IV, Welly, Onnit, and Nutrafol. 

The Head of Corporate Finance is a senior enterprise leader responsible for financial stewardship, controls, and investment discipline across the WBC. As we scale toward our €5bn 2030 ambition and a €3bn turnover in 2026, this role bridges the gap between the discipline of a public company and the agility of a fast-growing start-up.

Role Description

The Head of Corporate Finance is a senior enterprise finance leader responsible for financial stewardship, finance operations, risk and controls, and investment discipline across the Wellbeing portfolio. The role is designed for a leader with strong strategic influence and credibility across all core finance disciplines — able to connect governance, operations, investment decisions, and transformation toreal businessoutcomes.

This role requires the "soft skills" to navigate a matrixed portfolio, partnering withOpCoCFOs to drive performance while institutionalizing world-class governance.Success requires the judgment to meet operating companies where they are in maturity, balancing rigor, pace, and commercial impact whilemaintainingtrust with senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Controls&Integrity

• Financial Integrity: Own the WBC controllership framework, ensuring best-in-class accounting, statutory reporting, and tax governance across all legalentities.

• Governance Fluency: Build SOX-like control frameworks and serve as the primary "bow-tie" interface between Unilever Corporate Finance, audit committees, and external auditors.

• Serve as the primary finance interface with Unilever corporate finance, audit committees, and internal and external auditors

• Finance Operations & Transformation

• Process Excellence: Lead finance operations across Record-to-Report (RTR), Order-to-Cash (OTC), and Procure-to-Pay (PTP), tailoring solutions to brand maturity.

• Systems Strategy: Serve as thefinance leadin ERP& other key technologyand architecturestrategic decisions,ensuring business processes are adapted for compliance and scalabilityandappropriate forrisk appetite of WBC andOpCo’s.

• Transformation:Act as the finance leader for major enterprise transformation programs, including route-to-market changes, supply chain make-vs-buy decisions, technology and architecture, and readiness for centralization, outsourcing, and automation

• Data & Analytics: In partnership with WBC Data & Analytics organization,developleadingfinancial and non-financial information for the businessthat is democratized, self-serviced, and properly governed.

• Investment Stewardship & Business Development

• Establish Investment Stewardship as a core finance capability, creating common language and discipline for evaluating growth, marketing, e-commerce, and strategic investments.

• Serve asleader in creating value with AI while navigating risks ofthe emergingtechnology and applications.

• Lead through influence without authority, partnering closely with Operating Company CFOs as the “first team”

Experience & Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive finance experience across controllership, operations, governance, and business partnering in FMCG or similarly complex environments

• Demonstrated credibility across all core finance disciplines; not required to be the technical master of everything, but expected to lead with confidence, judgment, and influence

• Experience engaging audit committees, senior corporate leadership, and regulators in publicly listed company environments

• Track recordin M&A due diligence, integration, and enterprise transformation

• Clear CFO-track ambition, with the capability and aspiration to step into a futureOpCoCFO role