Investments Transformation Pmo Manager

Company Description
**About Us**

Awarded as an ESG and Responsible Investment Leader, Rest is one of Australia's largest profit-to-member superannuation funds; supporting more than 280,000 employers and around 1.95 million members, we have nearly $71 billion of funds under management.

Our ambition is to create super our members love. This is our purpose; it is why Rest exists. To achieve this ambition our mission is clear: make super simple

At the heart of everything we do at Rest are our values and behaviours, they represent how we'll be successful in this pursuit. 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.

**Job Description**:
**About the Job**

Reporting to the Senior Business Manager Investments, the Investments PMO Manager will be a key enabler of transformation and change within the Investments business. This role will oversee and support the end-to-end process for change initiatives within Rest Investments to ensure efficient delivery and appropriate governance. They will provide program and project governance, financial management, scheduling and tracking, status reporting, vendor management (for implementation only) and risk, issue and dependency management.

They will ensure the program adopts good market practice processes by utilising their project/ program management knowledge and support the executive and business sponsors. The role also maintains program records as well as quality assurance over processes and documentation.

**Key Responsibilities Include**:

- Own and manage the project initiation, delivery and closure process including the capture, classification, assessment, prioritisation and endorsement of business ideas.
- Working with Program and Project Managers, and business representatives, ensures all program / project processes, registers, repositories, and status reporting are established and consistent.
- Provide project management support to business teams to implement small initiatives.
- Proactively identify, assess and track program activities, resources, dependencies, risks, and costs.
- Regularly monitor and report progress and variations against approved plans, objectives, scope, schedule, resourcing and budget.
- Advise the Management Investment Committee on prioritisation of change initiatives and projects, based on factors including importance, urgency, and capacity.
- Ensure program benefits are defined, can be realised, tracked and reported.
- Enable workforce planning across the program

**Qualifications**:
**About You**:
Qualifications:

- Tertiary degree in business, finance, science, engineering, IT or similar (essential)
- Post-graduate courses in business, finance, or project management (desirable)

Required experience, understanding or credentials include:

- Business domain knowledge in superannuation, investments or financial services
- At least 5-7+ years Project Management experience including specialisation in software development, project management, change management, process architecture or systems integration.

Preferred experience, understanding or credentials include:

- Demonstrated ability in managing PMOs in small to medium organisations.
- Demonstrated experience in managing financials and completing status reporting against KPIs.
- Capability for problem-solving, decision-making, and sound judgment.
- Created and maintained delivery methodology, artefacts and supporting toolkit for project delivery.
- Prioritised and managed resources in a lean environment incl. people and financial/ contingency.
- Maintained a real time picture of status and priority.
- Experience endorsing and critically evaluating project and initiative proposals.
- Experience in reviewing and challenging project scopes, records and change requests.

Additional Information
**Benefits**

Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include
- Personal and professional development opportunities
- Hybrid working - Work to suit your lifestyle
- Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave
- Meeting free breaks (Rest Stops)
- Income Protection Insurance
- Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest's values and behaviours)
- Rest is committed to creating a flexible hybrid work environment and we_ are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture where people feel welcome and inspired to work at their best. _
- We value differences in people and actively seek a wide range of diverse employees. We are passionate about having a workplace that is inclusive of our differences in gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, background, geographical/rural/remote location, disrupted work history due to career or other breaks or abilities, so we can all bring the best of ourselves to work._

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