Finance Business Partner

SPC Global (ASX:SPG) is an iconic food manufacturer with a 100-year commitment to playing a positive role in the Australian economy and manufacturing industry. Our commercial business office is transitioning to Melbourne CBD and runs four Business Divisions - SPC, The Original Juice Co., Nature One Dairy and Natural Ingredients.

This is an exciting time to join our agribusiness as we unlock new growth potential and take our business global. Our business has recently revisited our values with the purpose of globalising an iconic brand.

**The Opportunity**:
The Finance Business Partner - Strategy & Transformation role supports the Strategy & Transformation team and the broader team in evaluating, sizing, prioritizing, reporting strategic initiatives and developing the financials for 5-year plan. It will provide robust financial analysis, develop business cases, and support capital allocation decisions across the transformation portfolio.

As a trusted finance partner, the role will deliver innovative financial models & solutions that create real business impact and empower teams to succeed. This position will be a 2-year contracted role.

**Key activities of this role include**:
**Partner with strategy, operations, and functional leads to evaluate the financial impact of transformation and integration initiatives**
- Collaborate with initiative owners across functions (e.g. supply chain, commercial, manufacturing) to quantify financial implications of proposed changes.
- Challenge and refine assumptions around cost savings, revenue uplift, working capital benefits, and headcount impacts.
- Translate operational metrics into financial outcomes (e.g. productivity improvements into labour cost reductions).
- Ensure alignment between initiative benefits and overall group financial targets.

**Develop and assess business cases including sizing benefits, estimating costs, and calculating return on investment**
- Build comprehensive financial models that include upfront investment, ongoing operating impacts, and expected benefit realisation timelines.
- Collaborate with initiative owners and CFO team to validate input assumptions and risk factors.
- Provide clear, decision-ready documentation to support investment committee and board approvals.

**Support project prioritisation frameworks based on financial contribution, feasibility, and strategic alignment**
- Help define and implement a prioritisation model that evaluates projects across multiple lenses: financial return, ease of execution, strategic fit, and organisational readiness.
- Prepare comparison matrices or scenario models to aid resource allocation and sequencing discussions.
- Work closely with the CSTO and Program Manager to rebalance the portfolio in response to emerging risks, business conditions, or performance issues.
- Ensure capital and capability constraints are factored into project gating.

**Assist in setting and tracking financial performance metrics across key initiatives**
- Define initiative-level KPIs and align them with broader enterprise value drivers (e.g. margin improvement, asset utilisation, SG&A reduction).
- Establish financial baselines and benefit realisation milestones with initiative leads and finance business partners.
- Track actual vs forecasted performance regularly, identifying variances and root causes.
- Support initiative leaders with data and insight to support course correction and benefit capture.

**Develop the financial model for the 5-Year Strategic Plan in coordination with stakeholders**
- Lead the development of a dynamic, fully integrated financial model supporting the company’s 5-year strategic plan.
- Collaborate closely with strategy, commercial, operations, supply chain, and finance stakeholders to gather assumptions on volume growth, pricing, cost structures, capital investment, and financing needs.
- Ensure model flexibility to simulate different strategic scenarios (e.g. market expansion, operational optimisation, M&A opportunities).
Validate assumptions through internal benchmarking, external market insights, and sensitivity analysis.
- Present outputs to executive leadership, ensuring the financial plan clearly links operational strategies to long-term financial targets (e.g., revenue growth, margin expansion, cash generation, and debt reduction).

**Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience**:
**Education** - A degree in finance, accountancy or a related field is typically required.

**Experience** - 5+ years of experience in a finance, strategy, or consulting role (experience at Big 4, McKinsey, BCG, Bain, or Accenture highly regarded).

**Skills**- Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.

**Strategic Thinking** - An innovative strategic thinker who displays an ability to adapt to and excel in changing market dynamics.

**Action & Accountability** - A clear understanding and focus on the operational and strategic objectives of the department to identify improvement opportuni