• Financial Services - Award-Winning Superannuation Fund Provider 
• Key Role within the Advice Technology Team
• Work with purpose, in a highly collegiate team
• 9 Month Fixed Term Contract 
• Hybrid working - blend of Sydney CBD Office and Home 

About Us

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds. We support nearly two million members, with around $75 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.

About the Job

This is a key role within the Advice Technology team. The Advice Technology Consultant will provide support services to the Advice and Retirement teams in the areas of Advice IT support, Testing, Documentation, Training and Risk and Compliance. This includes ensuring new starters are set up efficiently, training is provided and there are clear user guides and procedure manuals made available to the team. You will also ensure reporting from these systems is completed in accordance with required schedules to relevant stakeholders. You will work closely with the Digital Advice team to ensure any new training or system updates are understood and resources updated accordingly.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Responsible for providing technical expertise and support for all advice systems, including:

• Advice IT support for all Advice systems (currently this is Midwinter AdviceOS, Rest Custom Digital Advice solution, Gallagher and Aaspire). This includes:
  • Troubleshooting and escalations of IT issues
  • New starter set up requests to Advice IT Support and new starter training
  • Maintenance of user guides and training materials
  • Ensuring no interruption to access where this is within your control
  • Training and upskilling of advice team to produce advice documentation in Midwinter efficiently and in a compliant manner as required
  • Investigation and analysis of issues relating to the advice technology solution and communications across stakeholders to ensure clarity on outcomes as required
  • Managing all Phone and Digital Statement of Advice templates with oversight of the Senior Advice Technology Consultants
  • Documenting functional requirements and technical specifications (where relevant) for advice solutions including templates used by advice team
  • Testing advice technology updates to ensure alignment with Rest advice processes and procedures as required
  • Work with the relevant stakeholders to review broader Rest technology solutions as presented by projects and any impacts they might have on advice systems; make recommendations as needed to ensure advice systems align with Rest’s overall technology framework, policies, processes and principles
  • Generate reporting on agreed metrics with vendors
  • Support regular internal prioritisation meetings, and operational and vendor management meetings with Midwinter
• Providing Quality Assurance/Risk and Compliance support to the Advice Services team by:
  • Completing set control plans according to schedules and escalating when issues arise
  • Providing reporting according to set schedules and adhoc when required
  • Assisting with remediation activities for incidents when required
  • Assisting with SoA checking when required
  • Assisting with maintenance of Advice process guides when required
• Supporting the Advice and Retirement teams by identifying and recommending improvements in processes to provide quality services in an efficient and cost effective manner.
• Any other task requested from you within the remit of the Digital Advice and Advice Services teams.

We are looking for a globally experienced operations leader to be responsible for driving customer focus, visibility and accountability across NEXTDC’s global operations.  Ensuring our data centres performance and our business performance is constantly monitored, our communications to customers is timely and appropriate, our alert capture and service flow processes are crisp and efficient - will lead to us over delivering on our brand promises and outperforming our customer’s requirements and expectations.

You’ll report to the COO and in a highly visible role collaborate with all NEXTDC’s senior executives as well as support senior customer interactions. Your focus will be on highly coherent use of alert and process tracking, deep customer and data centre experience, to drive continuous service improvement leading to high operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.

This role includes management of our Global Integrated Operations Centre, facilitating & ensuring our data centre and business performance and through supporting our client facing teams and being that reliable conduit to clients, ensure we are set up to satisfy our customer’s needs and expectations.

This Platform Solution Architect is a functional and technical expert consulting with customers on implementing ServiceNow Workflow solutions based on best practices – all with the goal of accelerating and driving customer business outcomes. The role requires the person to be laser-focused on solving for the most relevant customer challenges - providing support during sales cycles, on direct engagements with our Customers and Partners, and advocating for customer needs within ServiceNow (e.g., Product Management, Customer & Partner Excellence, Training & Certification).

Platform Solution Architect brings architectural guidance, business acumen in the industry (e.g., Employee Experience, Customer Service, Information Technology, etc.), along with deep product expertise, innovation, and knowledge capital to our customers and partners.

What you get to do in this role:

• Be a lead member of an overall engagement project team focused on delivering successful and substantive customer outcomes, focused on inter-connectivity between Workflow applications and a customer’s technology landscape, while informing customer on governance best practices
• Interacts with senior leadership or even CXO roles to support discussions related to their implementation roadmap and change management best practices for implementing applications within a Workflow
• Support pre-sales activities like conducting sales presentations, leading solutioning/scoping discussions/workshops, estimating implementation engagement efforts in partnership with Services Account Executives, Solution Sales Executives/Consultants, Sales Account Executives, and Partner Sales Organisations
• Establish mutually beneficial relationships with Workflow product owners and stakeholders, to promote awareness of Workflow Solutions capabilities and roadmaps
• Promote continuous improvement practices for delivery/engagement materials in partnership with related Customer & Partner Excellence Team
• Enable and mentor other members of the ServiceNow delivery team and partner ecosystem
• Up to 50% travel annually, driven by customer needs and internal meetings

Your role will be to provide high-level administrative and strategic support to our Senior Vice President, Talent & Culture and the broader senior T&C leadership team.  Naturally proactive, you will ensure seamless coordination and execution of their daily activities. As a trusted partner, you will be managing schedules, communications, and supporting on projects to optimize the executive's effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities:

Administration:

• Manage the SVP’s calendar and travel arrangements, ensuring efficiency across time zones
• Prepare agendas, take minutes, and organize meetings and conferences
• Collaborate with the T&C team on reports, presentations, and project coordination
• Maintain an efficient e-filing system and handle general office tasks
• Support the coordination of T&C projects and events
• Compile weekly T&C activity reports for the SLT

Communication:

• Manage calls, emails, and inquiries, acting as the SVP’s first point of contact
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Prepare and send communications to properties and business units
• Ensure timely follow-up on action items

Financial Administration:

• Process invoices and expense claims (using Concur)
• Liaise with the finance team and other internal departments with regard to payments, recharging, approvals or enquiries

Key Skills & Attributes:

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Office, and Excel
• Ability to manage complex scheduling across time zones
• Excellent organizational, time management, and multitasking skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion
• Service-oriented with a keen eye for detail
• Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and needs
• Strong teamwork skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse groups