Finance Business Partner

Port Melbourne VIC, Australia
- Leading Australian Owned Retail Brand
- Permanent Position with Excellent Benefits
- Flexible - Hybrid Role

**Be the Financial Bridge Between Strategy and Store Success**
- Full-Time Permanent Role
- Hybrid Working Arrangement
- Nationally Recognised Tools Retailer

At Total Tools, we’ve proudly supported tradies for over 30 years—providing the best tools, expert advice, and outstanding service across our national store network. With most of our stores locally owned and operated, we continue to lead the way as Australia’s trade tool specialist.

**The Role**:
We’re looking for an experienced and commercially driven **Finance Business Partner - Joint Venture Stores** to lead budgeting, forecasting, financial governance and issue resolution across our JV store network. This pivotal role will work closely with finance teams across the country—ensuring accurate reporting, compliance, and strategic alignment while identifying ways to improve store performance and operational efficiency.

Reporting to the Commercial Manager - Joint Venture Stores, this role is a key driver of financial rigour, business case development, provision management, and collaborative engagement across our growing group of JV stores.

**What You’ll Do**:
**Budgeting & Forecasting Leadership**
- Own and drive the budgeting and forecasting process for all joint venture stores.
- Build robust financial models and tools to improve forecasting accuracy and accountability.
- Align budgets with wider strategic objectives, collaborating with key stakeholders.

**Governance & Compliance**
- Ensure financial governance and compliance with internal policies, accounting standards and audit requirements.
- Monitor financial risk and support audit processes.

**Reporting, Reconciliation & Performance Analysis**
- Deliver timely, accurate reporting across P&L and balance sheets.
- Analyse variances, performance trends and provide commercial insights.
- Gatekeep balance sheet reconciliations and ensure ledger accuracy, including GRNI and GIT.

**Business Improvement & Relationship Management**
- Conduct regular store visits to support finance teams, identify challenges and implement improvement initiatives.
- Partner closely with operational leaders to drive profitability and improve processes.
- Lead the JV Finance Forum, fostering collaboration, sharing best practices and unifying financial standards across stores.

**Provision & Risk Management**
- Reduce aged provisions related to obsolete stock and doubtful debts.
- Ensure stores maintain clean stock and invoice records, taking a proactive approach to financial hygiene.
- Provide reporting and recommend corrective actions for aged balances and risk indicators.

**Business Case Development**
- Support the development of business cases for new stores, relocations, and acquisitions in partnership with the Network Development team.
- Provide financial modelling and ROI analysis to inform investment decisions.

**What You’ll Bring**:

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or Business; CPA or CA qualified.
- At least 5 years’ experience in finance business partnering, budgeting, forecasting and commercial finance within a retail environment.
- Proven expertise in financial governance, reconciliations, and provision management.
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence and build trusted relationships with operational teams.
- Commercial acumen, strategic thinking, and problem-solving capability.
- Confident with systems and tools for financial modelling, reporting and dashboards.

**Key Competencies**:

- Financial leadership and insight
- Relationship and stakeholder management
- Balance sheet governance and compliance
- Strategic forecasting and budgeting
- Change and process improvement leadership

**_ One Team, Own it & Get it Done, Customer First & Be the Difference_**

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**Why You’ll Love Working With Us**:

- At Metcash, you’re _part of something bigger_. You have all the perks of a small business heart, without missing out on the big business support.
- Being part of something bigger means you’re part of a strong purpose, where the work you do makes a big difference to independent business and local communities. It opens a sea of opportunities to develop yourself, grow your career, thrive your way and make your mark. And you’ll be part of our high performing team, where you reap the rewards of our collective success now and into the future.

**Life at Metcash**
- Experience a supportive and flexible work environment. We are a FlexReady accredited workplace
- Enjoy a 5th week of annual leave.
- Benefit from 2 well-being days and 1 volunteer day annually.
- An abundance of learning, development, and career growth opportunities.
- 12 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave for primary carers.
- Proudly awarded the “Bronze Employer for LGBTQ Inclusion”.
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