Supporting millions of Aussies since 1988 with low fees and competitive long-term performance. Profits back to members, not shareholders

Closing date: Sunday 6th April 2025

Please note this role can be based in any of our Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane locations

Please note Rest does not accept speculative resumes from recruitment agencies 

Rest will review applications prior to the closing date and may close the role earlier 

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.

We support nearly two million members, with around $86 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

This position will facilitate the operational risk environment of the investment team being properly assessed, monitored and maintained consistent with Rest’s Risk Management Framework.  This position works within the investment team embodying and promoting a sound risk culture including by ensuring its risk profile, risk management activities and risk events are appropriately managed.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Managing the Operational Risk function in the Investments team, which delivers risk advice, supports risk event management, risk in change assessments, control management and testing, assurance activities, as well as conducting investment manager operational due diligence
• Ensure the coherent and strategic operation of the risk management framework in the investment team to empower the attainment of the investment team’s business objectives within risk appetite
• Ensure the preparation of regular risk and risk event reporting to support delivery of investment’s business outcomes
• Promote risk culture across the investment team and promote continuous improvement towards better practice, as well as resilience across its current and future operations

• Tertiary qualification in accounting, law, economics, business or equivalent
• (desirable) Membership of a professional body such as the Risk Management Institute of Australia or the GRC Institute

Required experience, understanding or credentials including:

• Significant demonstrable experience in risk and compliance management in the financial services industry (ideally investment management and/or superannuation)
• Thorough understanding of, and experience of developing and implementing and reporting on, risk and compliance management tools, techniques and best practice methodologies
• Thorough understanding of the investment management industry
• (desirable) Experience with investment management operations
• Demonstrated ‘commercial’ approach to risk management
• Experience in managing multiple projects and prioritising competing deadlines
• Well-developed interpersonal skills coupled with sound oral and written communications skills

Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:

• Personal and professional development opportunities 
• Hybrid working 
• Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave 
• Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave 
• Linkedin Learning 
• Income Protection Insurance 
• Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest’s values and behaviours) 
• Rest Stops - meeting free breaks 

If you share our values, believe you can help make a difference for our members and want to be part of a leading superannuation fund with a Super culture, please click Apply Now.

Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion - where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.

We value the different backgrounds, lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages, cultural backgrounds, faiths, gender identities, sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.

Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.

*Funds under management as at 30 June 2024. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.