Finance Business Partner - Marketing

Finance Business Partner – Global Brands | Partner with Marketing to Drive Impact

Make your mark. Change the game. Join the pack.

Ready to take your analytical skills beyond the numbers? At RPF we are in an exciting Transformational Phase and have targeted the next 2 years to expand and grow our brands globally. 

As a result, we have a newly created opportunity for a passionate and commercially savvy Finance Business Partner who thrives at the intersection of marketing, commercial strategy, and consumer impact to support the business in being consumer led. 

We are bringing our brands into focus, and you will play a key role in helping us achieve this goal.

In this role, you’ll do more than budgets and reports — you’ll be a true analytical partner to Marketing, developing insights and providing analysis that will help shape brand campaigns, new product launches, and consumer engagement initiatives with sharp financial insight. 

From forecasting global brand spend to building business cases for innovation, you’ll influence decisions that change the game and keep our brands ahead of the pack.

What You’Ll Do:

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and reporting to maximise brand investment and ROI.
• Partner with Marketing leaders on campaign strategy, promotions, and innovation.
• Build financial models and scenario analyses to guide commercial decisions.
• Leverage data and tech to simplify reporting and automate insights.
• Foster a performance-driven culture, coaching both finance and non-finance teams to use data in decision-making.

What We’Re Looking For:

• A commercially sharp individual with strong business partnering skills.
• Experience working across marketing, sales, or FMCG/consumer goods preferred.
• Someone who balances financial discipline with creativity and commercial flair.
• A collaborator who embodies our values: Work as a Pack, Make Your Mark, Lead with Passion, and Change the Game.

This is your chance to step into the spotlight, directly influencing how global brands connect with consumers, while growing your career in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

What we’re about

Welcome to RPF, where we believe in keeping it Real.

Since 1994, we have been Australia and New Zealand’s pioneers in fresher dog and cat nutrition. Our story is one of passion for a better way to care for pets, a belief in fresher nutrition, and an unwavering commitment to delivering this to pet parents and pets worldwide.

We're dedicated to fostering authentic partnerships, encouraging real ambition, and providing real career opportunities for our employees to make a difference.

Real means fresher ingredients and fresher methods. We'll never stop expanding, innovating, and trying new things. We compete in every pet category and channel, creating favourite brands such as Ivory Coat, Nature’s Gift, V.I.P. Petfoods, and Love ‘Em & Fussy Cat!

Since the establishment of RPF, we have grown to over 900 people across Australia and New Zealand, China, Southeast Asia and Europe.

With the pet industry growing rapidly (a $15 billion industry!) and pets becoming increasingly important in our lives and homes, this is a unique opportunity to be a part of our remarkable growth story and advance your career.

Why join us?

Do work that matters. We’re pioneering in a new area of pet food, always striving for fresher. We’re restless, creating a better life for our pets.

Make an impact and change the game. You won’t be another ‘cog in the wheel’ here. We give full trust and autonomy for you to do your best work – and to make a real difference. Do you have a great idea for a new product or system improvement? We’re all ears!

Growing and global. We’re growing fast! We now have global presence across APAC, and Europe regions and we’re only getting started!

Work with a pack of awesome, genuine people who are passionate about what they do.

Grow your career with us. We’re big believers in lifelong learning. You’ll be given access to LinkedIn Learning, plus opportunities for internal mobility and leadership training to fast-track your career.

Pets our part of our family: bring your pet to our Crows Nest office, access our Pawrental leave when you adopt a new cat or dog, pet carer and compassionate leave.

Generous perks including day off for your anniversary, product discounts, volunteering days to help the community, novated leases, a rewards program and parental leave.

What’S Next?

If you're ready to unleash your potential and make a real difference in the booming pet industry, then we want to hear from you! Next steps will include:

• An initial telephone interview followed by 2 face to face interviews
• 2 work references

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity’s not a buzzword here, it’s in our DNA. Diverse perspectives shape our culture and make our work better. That’s why we’re committed to building inclusive teams that represent a variety of backgrounds and skills. If you need any reasonable adjustments, accessibility assistance or would like to note which pronouns you use at any stage of our hiring process, just contact us at accommodations: people&culture@realpetfoodco.com.au. We look forward to hearing from you.

Please note: NO agencies will be considered during this process. We encourage you to refrain from submitting unsolicited profiles