Analyst, Unlisted Middle Office

**12-month fixed term contract in a highly experienced team**:

- **Hybrid working environment**:

- **Sydney or Melbourne Location**

Cross functional and varied middle office role.**About Us**

As one of Australia’s largest profit-to member superannuation funds, our mission is to help our members achieve their personal best retirement outcomes. Rest supports over 129,000 contributing employers, around 1.8 million members and has more than $60 billion of funds under management.**Culture**

Our team at Rest enjoy a positive culture built around our core values “The Rest Effect”. We seek excellence in everything we do, are dynamic and innovative in the way we work, are always accountable, we are champions of our members, and we succeed together.**About the Job**

12-month fixed term contract. Rest’s Middle Office provides improved decision support, performance reporting and technical expertise in due diligence and support the Unlisted Assets (Property, Infrastructure, PE and Direct Debt) with end-to-end’ transaction processing and reporting capabilities.

The Middle Office function is maturing from a traditional middle to back office function to provide improved decision support, performance reporting, technical expertise in due diligence, and centralised functions performed within the Front Office Investment Teams.

As part of this journey, the Middle Office function is specialising between the Listed Assets and Unlisted Assets, requiring robust ‘end-to-end’ transaction processing and reporting capabilities.

This role will be responsible for transaction review, instruction and reporting for the Unlisted Assets.

In addition, the role will develop the accounting platform that will support the growth in the Unlisted Assets as well as business as usual Operations including; ensuring timeliness of processing payments, preparing & uploading custodian instructions, and acknowledging receipt of funds. Considering the technical consequences of Unlisted Investment transactions for Custody, Accounting, Legal, Tax, Performance and act as the first point of call prior to corroborating with the wider Shared Services group.

**Key responsibilities include**:
Operations (Unlisted)- Preparing end to end instructions for unlisted transactions (cashflows, valuations etc) to:

- Custodian - Accounting, Unit Pricing & Tax
- Treasury - Cash Management
- Overlay - FX Hedging
- Legal
- Recording transactions in the internal reporting systems
- Ensuring accounting and valuations comply within the Valuation and Unit Pricing Policies
- Reviewing investment management and performance fees for accuracy
- New deal/investment setup both internally and with the Custodian
- Primary point of contact for Unlisted Assets with:

- The Custodian
- Rest Investment Team (operations and unit pricing)
- The Investment’s Finance Teams
- Preparing and maintaining Investment bibles, procedures and model documentation

Finance- Lodging BAS/IAS Tax payments
- Reviewing Direct Property investments monthly financial/income-expenditure reports
- Coordinating mandate compliance responses (e.g. RG97) as required by Rest
- Responsible for the investment valuation policy, governance and process for all Unlisted Asset classes, including coordinating of REST’s year-end group audit

Secondary Accountabilities and Responsibilities includes:

- Change and Project Management- Initiate, manage and deliver on change projects improving the Unlisted Middle Office service to the portfolio managers and organisation
- Review, document and analyse current processes, systems and policies with the purpose of delivering change benefits
- Improve process, interactions and flows of information within the business and to REST, the custodian and the administrator
- Analyse and develop system solutions to improve process efficiency, data integrity and business intelligence reporting
- Assist the Business Solution Manager with system implementations for Unlisted Assets
- Data validation and input
- Process documentation
- Ad-hoc tasks

**About You**:

- Hold an appropriate tertiary qualification
- Qualified accountant or Chartered Accountant (CA) / Chartered Practicing Accountant (CPA) or in progress viewed favourably
- 3+ years post tertiary qualifications completion
- Ideally with funds management experience
- Understanding of fund accounting and tax for Special Purpose Vehicles (Trusts & Corporations)
- Experience preparing financial statements and documenting year-end adjustments for tax
- Structured in their written communication and organised in preparing supporting documents
- Excellent planning capabilities, both short and long term, derived from participation in preparing financial and other reports to specified timetables and deadlines
- Combine sound commercial judgement and empathy with the risk profile of a major superannuation fund
- Strong Excel, operational procedures and general financial systems skills
- Strong change and project management skil