About this role
City : Sao Paulo State : São Paulo (BR-SP) Country : Brazil (BR) Requisition Number : 49386 Bunge has an exciting opportunity available for a Portfolio Specialist. In this role you will be part of a global team working on challenging, meaningful projects impacting core business activities. Since 1818, Bunge has been connecting farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed, and fuel to the world. Looking to the future, our ambition is to continuously reinvent ourselves, leveraging data to be at the forefront of analytics, technology and talent to accomplish our purpose in a better, faster and simpler way.
Bunge is committed to operating and thriving in the digital world – creating world class agile teams where teammates are empowered and encouraged to collaborate and test and learn to succeed. At Bunge, people don’t just come here to work, they come here to grow – solving challenges that directly impact the world with a diverse team of thinkers and doers. Bunge offers a strong compensation and benefits package, generous paid time off program, flexible work arrangements, and opportunity to progress. Our hybrid work environment provides a balance of in-office and remote work.
Most importantly, in all we do we live our values: Act as One Team by fostering inclusion, collaboration, and respect Drive for Excellence by being agile, innovative and efficient Do What's Right by acting safely, ethically, and sustainably Overview: The person in this role is responsible for managing the financial governance, investment approval, and cost validation process for technology infrastructure initiatives. This role sits within the Technology Infrastructure organization and acts as the primary interface between Infrastructure teams, Finance Partners, and governance forums to ensure that all initiatives are financially sound, properly justified, approved, and tracked.
The role ensures alignment with enterprise demand and investment approval processes, including budget validation, cost transparency, ROI/TCO assessment, and compliance with approval thresholds and governance bodies. Manages BT projects and portfolio, ensuring quality, budget and scope deliviery.
Essential Functions
- Main Accountabilities
- 1. Financial Governance & Approval Management Own and manage the end ‑ to ‑ end finance approval process for infrastructure initiatives (projects and non ‑ projects). Coordinate Finance Partner reviews to validate budget availability, cost structures, business cases, and financial assumptions (CAPEX/OPEX, TCO, ROI, payback). Ensure initiatives meet approval requirements for PAF, CAF, P@B, FP&A, and Steering Committee reviews based on defined thresholds.
- 2. Demand & Investment Intake Support Partner with Infrastructure Leads, Architects, and Service Owners to shape initiatives early, ensuring financial readiness before formal submission. Validate that demand submissions include complete and accurate financial data, including: Detailed cost plans Budget alignment Benefits and savings (cost avoidance, hard savings) Risk and financial impact assessment.
- 3. Cost Transparency & Financial Analysis Cost comparisons vs. prior year Vendor and contract impact analysis Regional and global cost allocations Net savings and cost avoidance calculations Support leadership with clear financial narratives for decision ‑ making forums (BTLT, SteerCo, Core Teams).
Perform financial analysis on infrastructure initiatives, including:
- 4. Governance Forums & Stakeholder Coordination Act as the single point of coordination between Technology Infrastructure, Finance, Procurement, and Governance bodies. Prepare and support materials for demand review meetings, finance pre ‑ approval sessions, and steering committees. Track decisions, conditions, and approvals; ensure outcomes are properly recorded in governance systems
- 5. Project Management and PMO Lead end-to-end project and program governance, ensuring initiatives are delivered within agreed scope, timeline, budget, quality, and business objectives. Establish and maintain PMO standards and methodologies, including project lifecycle, stage gates, templates, RAID management, reporting, and governance frameworks. Manage the project portfolio, coordinating prioritization, resource allocation, dependencies, capacity, and alignment with strategic business and technology priorities. Drive executive reporting and stakeholder management, providing clear visibility into project status, financials, milestones, risks, dependencies, and decisions requiring leadership attention. Promote delivery excellence and continuous improvement, using KPIs, lessons learned, portfolio reviews, and project health assessments to improve predictability, accountability, and overall PMO maturity.
- 6. Compliance, Controls & Process Improvement Ensure compliance with enterprise technology investment and finance governance standards.
Maintain audit ‑ ready documentation for all approvals and financial decisions.
- Identify gaps, inefficiencies, or recurring issues in the approval process and propose process improvements to increase speed, clarity, and financial rigor.
Knowledge and Technical
Competencies
7 to 10+ years of experience in IT, Technology Finance, Infrastructure Governance, or Investment Management Strong exposure to technology cost models, infrastructure services, and vendor contracts Financial analysis advanced skills (CAPEX/OPEX, TCO, ROI, cost optimization) Technology infrastructure understanding (data centers, networks, cloud, security, end user services) Governance and stakeholder management Executive level communication and storytelling with numbers both in English and Portuguese are a must Strong process orientation and attention to detail Strong exposure to technology cost models, infrastructure services, and vendor contracts Experience working with large, global organizations and complex approval structures At Bunge (NYSE: BG), our purpose is to connect farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed and fuel to the world.
As a premier agribusiness solutions provider, our team of ~34,000 dedicated employees partner with farmers across the globe to move agricultural commodities from where they’re grown to where they’re needed—in faster, smarter, and more efficient ways. We are a world leader in grain origination, storage, distribution, oilseed processing and refining, offering a broad portfolio of plant-based oils, fats, and proteins. We work alongside our customers at both ends of the value chain to deliver quality products and develop tailored, innovative solutions that address evolving consumer needs.
With 200+ years of experience and presence in over 50 countries, we are committed to strengthening global food security, advancing sustainability, and helping communities prosper where we operate. Bunge has its registered office in Geneva, Switzerland and its corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. Learn more at Bunge.com. Every day our people exemplify these values, which represent Bunge at its core:
- We Are One Team – Collaborative, Respectful, Inclusive
- We Lead The Way – Agile, Empowered, Innovative
- We Do What’s Right – Safety, Sustainability, With Integrity
If this sounds like you, join us! We value and invest in people who believe in our purpose and are excited to live it every day – people who are #ProudtoBeBunge