General Manager, Financial

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

**Closing date: 21st March 2025**

Please note Rest does not accept speculative resumes from recruitment agencies
- Join Rest's leadership team - Melbourne or Sydney location
- Opportunity to transform and uplift our processes and capability
- Technical role within leading industry fund

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.

Provide strategic direction to a team of experts to drive the preparation and consolidation of statutory & regulatory reporting and financial obligations for Rest.

Reporting to the CFO, you will lead a culture of risk management internally and with external entities by ensuring leading practice financial controls and framework in alignment with the Rest strategy.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities;
- Overall responsibility for preparation, approval and lodgement of statutory and regulatory reporting, including annual financial reports for the Rest fund, trustee and investment entities.
- Preparation of monthly management reporting on overall financial position of the Group
- Leading a team of financial and regulatory reporting professionals
- Directing, controlling and monitoring Accounts Payable activities.
- Responsibility for overall engagement with external financial auditors
- Responsibility for overall engagement with MUFG, key external finance service provider
- Responsibility for oversight of our reserves across insurance, administration and risk, together with the CFO
- Prepare submissions to the Rest Board and Audit & Finance Committee in relation to appropriate financial matters
- Maintaining and improving financial risk management and control functions and processes across the Rest Group (include managing Line 1 Risk for F&IO division and maintaining recovery and exit planning etc.)
- Maintaining and improving appropriate finance policies (include reserving policy, business expenditure policy, climate reporting disclosures, AMM, AFC etc.)
- Partner with leaders and stakeholders across Rest to drive compliance on financial reporting
- Working as part of a senior leadership team collaboratively ensuring key deliverables are met
- Being involved and representing Rest in appropriate industry forums

**Qualifications**
- Degree qualified in Accounting
- Member of the Chartered Accountant Australia and New Zealand
- Extensive experience in statutory and financial reporting in Financial Services, Professional Services and/or Superannuation.
- Demonstrated experience leading internal and external reporting and financial obligations with APRA, ASIC and other regulators.
- Experience working within Financial control, Audit in Insurance/Superannuation or Financial Services.
- Experience in leading, motivating and manages staff to optimise performance and effectiveness.
- Experience Leading transformational change or business improvement initiatives.

**Additional Information**
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**
- 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. _

**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._