Wild Finance Director

Title: 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

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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

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