Head of Corporate Finance and Transformation, Wellbeing

Overview

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 past 6 years Unilever has acquired 7 brands that embody the Wellbeing purpose of health as a lifestyle pursuit. This portfolio of millennial, digital first, narrow casting brands includes Equilibra, 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.

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 to real business outcomes. This role requires the "soft skills" to navigate a matrixed portfolio, partnering with OpCo CFOs 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 while maintaining trust with senior stakeholders.

• Controls & Integrity:
  Own the WBC controllership framework, ensuring best-in-class accounting, statutory reporting, and tax governance across all legal entities.
• Governance Fluency:
  Build SOX-like control frameworks and serve as the primary boss-tie interface between Unilever Corporate Finance, audit committees, and external auditors.
• Finance Interface:
  Serve as the primary finance interface with Unilever corporate finance, audit committees, and internal and external auditors.
• Finance Operations & Transformation:
  Lead finance operations across Record-to-Report (RTR), Order-to-Cash (OTC), and Procure-to-Pay (PTP), tailoring solutions to brand maturity.
• Systems Strategy:
  Act as the finance lead in ERP and other key technology and architecture decisions, ensuring processes are compliant, scalable, and aligned with risk appetite of WBC and OpCo’s.
• Transformation:
  Lead 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, develop leading financial and non-financial information for the business that 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.
• AI & Technology:
  Lead in creating value with AI while navigating risks of emerging technology and applications.
• Leadership:
  Lead through influence without authority, partnering closely with Operating Company CFOs as the “first team.”

• 15+ years of progressive finance experience across controllership, operations, governance, and business partnering in FMCG or similarly complex environments.
• Demonstrated credibility across core finance disciplines; not required to be the technical master of everything, but able to lead with confidence, judgment, and influence.
• Experience engaging audit committees, senior corporate leadership, and regulators in publicly listed company environments.
• Track record in M&A due diligence, integration, and enterprise transformation.
• Clear CFO-track ambition with the capability and aspiration to move into a future OpCo CFO role.

Pay: The pay range for this position is $227,700 to $569,250. Unilever considers a wide…