Senior Commercial Finance Manager, Gousto
12-Month Fixed Term Contract
1-2 days a week in office
Recipe boxes delivered to your door
Job no longer available
Recipe boxes delivered to your door
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
1-2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Gousto's mission is to make the food in our boxes more sustainable.
Role
Who you are
- Qualified (CIMA, ACA, ACCA) with experience of managing a Finance Analyst
- Significant Commercial Finance experience preferably partnering with Digital / Performance / Digital Marketing Teams (would be hugely beneficial)
- Partnering with Senior Stakeholders up to Head of & Director Level
- Proven track record in developing and managing direct reports
- Confident presenting to and influencing senior stakeholders
- Strategic thinker who can balance the bigger picture with attention to detail
- Highly organized, with strong prioritization skills
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Our Activate Tribe are integral to the early stages of our Customer Journey therefore any experience partnering Digital / Performance Marketing Teams would be hugely beneficial!
What the job involves
- Employment Type: 12-Month Fixed Term Contract starting in March / April 2025
- Reporting into the Commercial Finance Director you will play a key role being the Commercial Finance Lead of our Activate Tribe
- As the Senior Commercial Finance Manager you will be responsible for partnering with our VP of Acquisition & Retention, Heads of Acquisition, Growth and Data to name a few!
- You will also manage a small but mighty team of commercial finance analysts
- Provide timely, accurate, and actionable financial insights to drive commercial success
- Analyze performance against budgets and OKRs, identifying risks and recommending mitigation strategies
- Partner with teams to develop reliable short- and medium-term forecasts and budgets
- Create P&L models based on marketing strategy scenarios, recommending the best course of action
- Collaborate on long-term plans for sign-ups, retention, orders, and marketing spend
- Ensure transparent integration of non-financial data into financial reporting by working closely with the Data function
- Build and evaluate business cases for investments in acquisition channels, retention strategies, technology, or propositions
- Assess and optimize ROI for both technological and non-technological resource allocation
- Drive actionable insights from OKRs to support data-driven decision-making
- Identify long-term value opportunities and trade-offs
- Support personal development plans for your 3 direct reports, fostering growth and engagement
Salary benchmarks
Our take
There is an accelerating consumer need to eat healthily, sustainably, and at value. Gousto aims to meet this need with its meal-kit delivery service, which offers pre-packaged ingredients and recipe instructions. It sets itself apart with more than 60 different recipes to choose from each week - a third of which are customisable.
In 2021, Gousto sold more than 90 million meals, amounting to three meals every second, a figure that is on the rise. It is part of The UK Plastics Pact, which aims for 100% reusable, recyclable and compostable plastic by 2025. As a member, Gousto has committed to eliminating problematic plastics, stimulating innovation and helping to build a stronger recycling system in the UK.
Gousto became a B Corp certified company for its sustainability efforts. Following huge recent investments, the now unicorn company is sure to continue its growth over the coming years as more consumers switch to convenient online grocery shopping.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
42% female employees
35% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Team energy
"The energy at Gousto is infectious! There's always a way to get involved in the things you're most passionate about. Everyone is so enthusiastic..."
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Feb 2023
$62.3m
LATE VC
Jan 2022
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $360.7m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays), + a holiday day added each year (up to 30 days), + buy up to 5 days extra holiday
- 40% Gousto discount, 25% for friends and family, and first box free
- Private healthcare
- Gym and ClassPass membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Referral scheme
- Company pension
- Quarterly team socials and mixed team events
- Gousto stash - hoodie, notepad, mug
- Free coffee, tea, fruit and ice cream
- Free beer, wine and soft drinks on Fridays
Company values
- Dream - We’ve got huge ambition and believe everything is possible - Curious, bold and resilient, we’ve got an insatiable appetite to learn and grow
- Deliver - We work at pace and focus on impact, taking ownership of the solution and raising the bar every step of the way
- Care - We obsess over our customers, doing the right thing for them and for the planet. We are one team, supporting and celebrating one another
Company HQ
Hammersmith, London, UK
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Leadership
Timo Boldt
(CEO)Spent 4 years in Finance at Rothschild and a hedge fund before founding Gousto in 2012. Sits on the Digital Advisory Board at Unilever.
People progressing
Joined as Operations Development Director, being promoted to EVP Operations after 1 year, and has since become Chief People Officer.
Joined as a Customer Care Agent in 2014, and is now Head of Customer Care.
Joined as PR Manager, being promoted to Senior Brand and PR Manager after 1 year and again to Head of Brand Marketing and PR after 3 years.
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