General Manager, Tax, Strategy

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

Closing date: 28th November 2025

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

Job Description

• Sydney or Melbourne
• Senior Leadership role within our Finance & Investment Operations team
• Lead the Tax practice at Rest

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

We support more than two million members, with around $100 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.

Your role will be to lead and set the tax strategy at Rest, strategically managing the group's tax expense including reporting and statutory compliance in Australia and globally across direct and indirect taxes. Leading Rest's key tax engagements and relationships.

• Proactively managing Group's aggregate global income tax expense across investment tax, superannuation tax matters, corporate taxes, GST, and all state tax liabilities.
• Developing a tax strategy for each investment asset class and develop and implement an effective tax rate measurement framework for investment tax matters both at an investment option level and across the Fund, including with appropriate reporting and oversight
• Embedding appropriate tax provisioning methodology taking to account current and future tax expenses, across the investment options
• Build effective working relationships with senior stakeholders, including CFO, CIO in the business with a view to embedding and improve business outcomes for members.
• Represent Rest on key industry taxation matters including external industry body tax committees
• Working with the products, advice and employer teams to help improve tax outcomes for Rest members.
• Drafting appropriate board and Audit Committee submissions on key tax matters relevant for director engagement
• Reviewing group structures and operating models to ensure they are tax compliant and tax efficient
• Responsibility for all tax governance frameworks including tax risk management policy
• Input into product design, particularly having regard to taxation considerations.
• Overall responsibility for groups tax compliance obligations across all taxes
• Responsibility for managing Group relationship with taxation authorities in Australia and overseas.
• Leading a team of highly competent taxation professionals

Qualifications

• Degree qualified Finance/Accounting and/or Law
• Member of the Chartered Accountants in Australia and New Zealand
• Extensive experience tax experience in the financial services, preferably Superannuation
• Proven experience leading and developing high performing teams
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of domestic and international direct and indirect taxation, GST, and other taxes
• Proven expertise in business trends/changes in law that will impact the Tax team and influence policy change
• Experience designing control, risk and governance frameworks

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

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
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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 31 July 2025. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.