Two Metcash finance executives claim the group’s South African chief financial officer bullied them amid a culture clash and row over bonuses within its Sydney offices, according to legal filings with the Fair Work Commission.

Metcash is a wholesale supplier to around 100,000 retail stores across Australia including the IGA Supermarkets and Foodland, alongside bottle shop merchants Cellarbrations and the Bottle-O. It also owns the Home Hardware and Mitre10 building supplies stores.

The group’s former general manager of Finance Transformation, Greg Buxton, and its former Group Treasurer, Delia Sparkes, have brought two separate claims against its current CFO Deepa Sita, who joined Metcash in 2024.

“Since Ms Sita’s commencement at Metcash, Ms Sparkes and Mr Buxton and other colleagues enc

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