Total 12 job vacancies by Rest

The Manager (Quantitative Research) is responsible for leading the development of quantitative models used to develop asset allocation and portfolio construction recommendations. This role will drive the continuous development of research and quantitative analysis activities with the aim of improving expected returns and risk for fund members.

Key accountabilities:

• Lead the development of Rest’s internal stochastic capital market assumption models across all asset classes and oversee model governance.
• Develop asset allocation optimisation models and recommend strategic asset allocations for all investment options.
• Provide portfolio construction and deployment advice to private markets asset classes based on internally generated research.
• Provide modelling insight and recommendations on the inclusion of new asset classes and their impact on portfolio design.
• Develop quantitative ESG research to inform portfolio construction, including climate scenario analysis.
• Represent the Investment Strategy and Asset Allocation team on investment data, technology stack and investment data strategy committees.
• Undertake ad hoc research to inform investment decision-making.

• Great Opportunity to Contribute to Managing Financial Crime Risk and Compliance Obligations
• Permanent, Full-time Role 
• Sydney or Melbourne Located - Hybrid Working, blend of office and home 

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.

About the Job

This role will contribute to managing financial crime risks and regulatory compliance obligations at Rest. It entails triaging, investigating and resolving any unusual behaviour relating to financial crime including Anti-Money Laundering/ Counter Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF), Sanctions, Fraud, Scams, Bribery and Corruption. 

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities 

• Investigate, resolve and respond to financial crime escalations received from the fund administrator or across Rest (i.e. Transaction Monitoring, Name Screening, ATO SuperMatch and UARs)
• Gather and record required evidence to support any reasonable grounds for suspicion of money laundering, organised crime or terrorism financing activities and articulate key recommendations
• Escalate potential regulatory reporting matters and potential breaches (as required) to the AML/CTF Compliance officer
• Maintain a current understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing typologies and fraud trends, including regulations, industry best practice, criminal typologies and developing trends
• Deliver financial crime training and education on the identification and reporting of unusual activity
• Manage financial crime enquiries and escalations
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships
• Identify, manage and deliver continuous improvement opportunities across financial crime.

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.

The Senior Analyst is a key member of the performance reporting team responsible for measuring and reporting the performance and attribution of the REST’s multiple investment strategies (Options). As such, this role has a primary focus on building the operating framework alongside the manger, including the people, processes, and systems to enable performance reporting function.

Supporting the manager in overseeing the operations of the team, the Senior Analyst will play a key role in providing guidance, training and technical support to the  Performance Reporting analysts. The role will contribute subject matter expertise to broader organisational initiatives and take the lead on team based initiatives.

The Senior Performance Reporting Analyst will be responsible for:.

• Delivering accurate and timely performance and exposure reports to external stakeholders including regulators, survey/ ratings houses.
• Delivering accurate and timely performance reports to internal member communications teams, in support of reporting to investment governance committees at Board, Investment Committee, People Culture and Remuneration Committee and senior management levels.
• Proactive monitoring of regulatory developments related to Rest’s published performance results and production of associated commentary and analysis (e.g., APRA Performance Tests).
• Developing and maintaining the Whole of Fund attribution model and provide training.
• Identifying sources of outperformance or underperformances and provide insights to key stakeholders.
• Oversight of the daily performance reporting provided by Rest’s custodian including oversight of their service levels and deliverables.
• Proactive expansion of Rest’s investment reporting capability to fully support new and evolving stakeholder needs and governance processes.
• Liaising with internal stakeholders including the Rest Investment Team in relation to performance reporting matters, responding to queries and helping to ensure that all Performance Reporting requirements are met.
• Reviewing and enhancing existing performance reporting processes through automation, simplification, and control improvement to reduce risk of error and create efficiencies.
• Assist in regulatory reporting including APRA reporting, RG97, portfolio holding disclosure, and OTC derivatives and ensure performance data points included are timely and accurate.
• Analysing the impact of regulatory changes relating to performance reporting and adapting processes and controls to ensure compliance.
• Contributing to the design and ongoing validation of external manager Performance fee models and calculations.  
• Develop ex-post-performance reporting across manager, sector, asset class and option level with a focus on continuous improvement and insights that will aid portfolio construction, absolute and APRA benchmark relative performance.
• Partner and support the Investment Analytics team as required.
• Assist in the management of daily operations, aligning with the best practices and in accordance with organisational requirements. Provide guidance, training, mentoring and feedback as required. Contribute to the development and refinement of internal controls and workflows.
• Utilise a suite of reporting and analytics solutions, such as State Street Alpha / Charles River and FactSet to enhance and automate current reporting

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.

Reporting directly to the Head of Compliance, you’ll play a key role within the Compliance team to maintain and monitor Rest’s Compliance Management Framework to ensure Rest operates in compliance with its legal and regulatory obligations.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities:

Compliance Management Framework: assist in the maintenance and monitoring of Rest’s compliance framework across the Rest business to facilitate compliance with relevant legislation, regulations, codes and standards and Rest organisational standards, including:

• Incident and Breach management process
• Management and Board reporting
• Compliance training
• Policy Governance framework
• Privacy framework
• Financial Crime framework

Oversight of Rest’s Incident and Breach management process:

• Daily monitoring of incidents and breach dashboards, and escalation of high rated matters
• Perform a compliance assessment of new incidents to determine whether a breach has occurred, and whether a matter is potentially reportable to a Regulator
• Assist in the preparation of monthly and quarterly incident and breach reports
• Assist with development and review of Rest’s Incident and Breach Policy and Procedures
• Provide support, guidance and subject matter expertise to the business on the investigation and remediation of significant and reportable breaches, and assist in reporting to Management, Board and relevant Board committees and preparation of breach correspondence for regulators
• Provide education across the Rest business and to material outsource providers on Rest’s expectations regarding incident and breach management

Act as a trusted partner to business areas across Rest through the provision of ‘second line’ compliance advice and participation in projects and business initiatives.

• Leading Industry Fund - recognised as a LinkedIn top 5 place to work
• Great opportunity to contribute in managing financial crime risks and regulatory compliance obligations
• Melbourne or Sydney Located 
• Hybrid Working - Blend of 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 role will contribute to managing financial crime risks and regulatory compliance obligations at Rest. It includes triaging, investigate and resolving any unusual behaviour relating to financial crime matters including Anti-Money Laundering / Counter Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF), Sanctions, Fraud, Scams, Bribery and Corruption. 

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Investigate, resolve and respond to financial crime escalations received from the fund administrator or from within Rest (i.e. Transaction Monitoring, Name Screening and Unusual Activity reports);
• Gather and record required evidence to support reasonable grounds for suspicion of a financial crime (i.e., money laundering/ terrorism financing activities or organised crime) and articulate key recommendations;
• Escalate potential regulatory reporting matters and potential breaches (as required) to the AML/CTF compliance officer;
• Manage financial crime enquiries and escalations;
• Identify, manage and deliver continuous improvement opportunities, including policies and procedures;
• Deliver key financial crime processes in line with service, quality and compliance expectations.
• Maintain a current understanding of predicate crimes, money laundering and terrorist financing typologies, including changes to legislation and regulations, industry best practice, criminal typologies and developing trends;
• Facilitate financial crime training and awareness, and
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships both internal and external;

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

The primary purpose of the role is to prepare and deliver internal investment reports and related information to internal stakeholders with an emphasis on Fixed Income portfolios

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

Performance Analysis:

• Produce regular performance analysis, attribution and commentary on the investment performance of REST’s Fixed Income and Debt portfolio at a whole of asset class, Sub Asset Class and an individual Fixed Income manager level.
• Contribute to the establishment of and oversee the maintenance of a fixed income attribution model.

Reporting:

• Prepare regular investment performance reporting for the fixed income team, Investment Committee and Board (including commentary and analysis),
• Contribute fixed income performance related exhibits to the analytics team monthly investment performance outcome forums.
• Actively work with other team members to proactively engage end users of reports to ensure the reports are fit for purpose, effective, consistent and in line with reporting objectives.
• Provide ad-hoc performance related information and analysis to internal and external stakeholders.

Vendor Management:

• Manage the day to day working relationship with FactSet as it relates to fixed income functionality.

Operations:

• Reconcile investment data from custodian, investment managers, investment advisers and other service providers. 
• Assist other analytical team members resolve performance related problems.
• Ensure compliance with relevant industry reporting standards (eg, GIPS, APRA).
• Interact with other internal investment teams and deploy a continuous improvement mindset to upgrade workflows and achieve operational efficiency and resilience.

• Join a market leading Fund
• Highly collegiate and engaged team
• Hybrid working as standard

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

As a senior leader within Rest's member division, your role as the Head of Relationship Management – South, will involve overseeing the strategic direction and operational management of the Southern Relationships Management team.

You will work closely with the Head of Relationship Management – North to support Rest's efforts in retaining and expanding our existing client portfolio by delivering world-class, strategic account management services to employers and members.

Your exceptional leadership skills will ensure team members consistently exceed client expectations, foster positive word-of-mouth, and increase referrals.

Reporting to the General Manager of Workplace Super, you will hold a crucial position as a Rest ambassador in the external market.

At Rest, our purpose is to create super our members love, and our mission is to make super simple. Your role is critical in achieving this.

• Lead the Account Management team (Southern) in cultivating strong relationships with key employers and stakeholders. This includes positioning Rest's products and services to deepen relationships, enhance member retention, increase awareness of Rest's offerings, and expand market share
• Lead the Relationship Management Team (Southern) in building strong relationships with key employers and stakeholders to promote Rest's products and services, deepen relationships, enhance member retention, increase awareness of Rest's offerings, and expand market share.
• Develop and execute go-to-market strategies to ensure the successful adoption of Rest's products and services while maintaining high client satisfaction.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of our employer client portfolio to support employer retention and consistently executing opportunities.
• Establish strong, long-term commercial relationships with our existing employers at the Executive level while identifying and pursuing new business development opportunities within the portfolio.
• Advocate for the voice of the customer (employer and member via an employer) within Rest and contribute to shaping employer and member value propositions that exceed expectations.
• Design and implement client strategies to optimise member engagement and meet MBFI obligations.
• Deliver engaging presentations and seminars to diverse audiences, both in person and virtually.
• Empower the team to drive continuous improvement initiatives and system adoption, optimising strategic outcomes and enhancing the employer experience.
• Promote the use of customer relationship management (CRM) systems and facilitate seamless transitions to new or related systems.
• Lead and inspire the team, fostering a culture aligned with Rest's values while promoting engagement and capability development.
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure coordinated service delivery and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Drive a high-performance culture to ensure consistent achievement of team and individual key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Stay current on the workplace superannuation landscape and collaborate with the Member Team to develop strategies that meet or exceed market standards.
• Contribute to the broader Workplace Super leadership team by sharing market insights and leveraging data analytics to identify growth and innovation opportunities.
• Regularly report on overall business performance and represent the team in internal Senior Leadership Team (SLT) or Executive Leadership Team (ELT) forums as required.

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

The Rest Investments Team is undergoing significant transformation as we pursue our goal to be the leading Investment Team in the Australian superannuation industry with a strong member focus and superior investment performance 

This is an exciting role providing specialist support as we continue to implement new technology platforms and applications to support us in achieving our goal. The Application Support Specialist will support the business using a suite of Investment-specific applications such as Charles River, FactSet, Bloomberg, Alpha Data Platform among others. 

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities 

Working within an existing team, and the wider business, the Application Support Specialist, will provide specialist application support within Rest Investment Team, with a priority focus on supporting investments applications with primary focus on Alpha platform Charles River, Alpha Data Platform and other applications in our grown ecosystem.  

The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and functionality of our investment technology platforms, and involves providing technical support, troubleshooting issues, and collaborating with various internal and external teams. 

Specialist Application Support 

• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with relevant vendors.  Notably Charles River and State Street. 

• Support and maintain investments applications throughout the lifecycle including Charles River, Alpha Data Platform, FactSet, Bloomberg, iLevel and other investments platforms in the ecosystem. 

• Providing technical support and day to day management and resolution of all business incidents and requests, in line with agreed SLAs and processes.  

• Coordinating activities with external vendors and internal stakeholders in a professional manner to ensure high level of customer satisfaction 

• Anticipate and address potential issues before they become a problem including escalating unresolved issues and formulating a plan to address keeping all stakeholders informed 

• Work with the broader team to ensure application issues/requests are fulfilled including applications security enhancements 

Incident Management  

• Manage and prioritize incidents, working to minimize system downtime and ensure rapid resolution of critical issues. 

• Develop and implement incident response procedures to enhance system stability. 

• Support the testing and quality assurance activities for system changes, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and adherence to business requirements. 

• Support the rollout and adoption of new investment systems and functionalities, including user training and change management activities. 

• Assist in data analysis and reporting tasks related to investment systems, providing insights to stakeholders for informed decision-making. 

• Contribute to Application Services documentation including user guides, technical documentation and reporting.  

• Implement and manage deployment of changes to all business applications and services including developing, writing and/or maintaining technical documentation and training for supported solutions 

• Create test scripts and undertake Release Verification Testing for all business solutions upgrades/deployments to ensure systems reliability and minimal business disruptions and report performance remediation activities for all business solutions to stakeholders as required 

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 

• Investigate, resolve and respond to financial crime escalations received from Financial Crime Operations (Transaction Monitoring, Name Screening, Unusual Activity Reports)
• Gather and record required evidence to support any reasonable grounds for suspicion of money laundering, organised crime or terrorism financing activities and articulate key recommendations
• Maintain a current understanding of money laundering and terrorist financing typologies and AML/CTF trends, including policies, procedures, regulations, and industry best practice
• Manage financial crime enquiries and escalations
• Complete KYC, Wolfsberg and related questionnaires in response to Investment Management arrangements
• Austrac Reporting; Suspicious Matter Reports and Cross-Border Movement Reporting
• Prepare monthly financial crime services reporting   

• Support Rest's Investments team with L&D programs
• Work with our Investments People team and Enterprise L&D team
• Leading industry fund - hybrid working belnding work from home and in office

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

As a member of the Rest People and Culture team, this role will collaborate and contribute to delivering our People Strategy through working with leaders and employees to build learning and development, talent, culture and capability at Rest.

The primary purpose of this role is to identify learning and capability needs, deliver learning and development programs to support those needs and support delivery of a range of engagement and culture related programs.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leaders and employees to identify and analyse training needs, complete capability gap analysis and input these into the workforce strategy 
• Design, source and deliver learning and development programs, including training workshops and e-learning and actively monitor their effectiveness 
• Curate L&D content and campaigns aligned to business priorities
• Support the development of a preferred supplier program for L&D vendors and manage contracts
• Contribute to sharepoint management (where L&D content is housed)
• Support, contribution to and roll out key initiatives relating to organisational culture, DE&I, engagement and high impact programs of work

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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

Manages the Investments data Governance and operations delivery function, team, and capabilities, (people, processes, and systems), to deliver data driven analysis, reporting, and insights, to enable market leading Investment management monitoring, reporting and decision making across the end-to-end Investments lifecycle.

Responsible for Rest’s Investments data governance and operations function.

This role is expected to work with the Rest enterprise Data organization to adopt and embed sound data management practices into how we operate the Investments data solutions and to ensure the appropriate operating model controls to deliver accurate and complete data to the Investments organisation.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Operationalize data management capabilities, processes, and the organizational design.
• Lead and develop the Investment Data operational team, comprising of data analysts, and reporting specialists
• Accountable to implement and drive data governance practices and assurance, develop data stewardship and ownership roles across the Investment function, ensuring alignment and adoption from the Enterprise framework standards.
• Develop and maintain the operating model for the investments data governance, aligning with enterprise standards and practices.
• Ensure accurate and timely data, reporting and analytics delivery to investments, including data onboarding, data issue resolution, engages project teams to ensure proper data usage.
• Information/Data Architecture: working with technology and architecture for tooling, standards + practice.
• Drive a strong focus on delivering business value via improvement of data quality and the protection of sensitive data.
• Define and embed roles and responsibilities related to data governance and ensure clear accountability for stewardship of the company’s principal information assets.
• Collaborate with the wider business to define, execute, champion, and embed Rest's data governance model into the Investments data function.
• Work with the vendor relationship management and data team to coordinate external data sources to eliminate redundancy and streamline the processes related to those services.
• Ensure adoption of the organizational data policies, standards, principles guidelines and standard operating processes.
• Preparation / presentation of data governance content for MIC review and for input into Enterprise reporting and oversight requirements as required.
• Run end to end data analysis and reporting services, providing data quality management services, deliver controlled quality assured data assets to the investment’s teams, supported by issue/incident resolution processes.

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

The responsibility of this role is to support the Senior Manager, Actuarial Services and General Manager, Actuarial Services in carrying out actuarial valuations, business planning, advice and insights to drive intelligent, commercial outcomes for Rest’s Insurance Group.  Reporting to the Senior Manager or General Manager, Actuarial Services this role will support the provision of strategic analytical advice and support relating to negotiations and decision making in the group insurance pricing under the Premium Adjustment Model (i.e. profit-sharing group insurance), Insurance Reserve monitoring and forecasting.

• Overall responsibility for supporting financial management of the insurance premium costs and insurance reserving. You will be responsible for analyzing and interpreting financial data related to insurance premiums and reserves, as well as identifying trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Supporting the Premium Adjustment Model process. Prepare independent loss ratio analysis, validate insurer’s loss ratio assumptions, methodology, negotiate with insurer on forward adjustments for best estimate pricing and review annual APA calculations on an annual basis.
• Quarterly loss ratio reporting. The results are presented at Product Impact Forum (PIF) to Rest senior leaders.
• Monitoring insurance reserving including forecasting balances based on prevailing claims and premium experience. The results are presented at Product Impact Forum (PIF) to Rest senior leaders.
• Monitoring and reviewing group insurance pricing assumptions, actual claims expense and premiums
• Data analytics using database including R and/or SQL
• Developing trend analysis for claims expenses and premium based on prior experience
• Developing appropriate monitoring and reporting framework for financial aspects of groups insurance expense
• Assisting with members best financial interest analysis for insurance expenditure
• Support decision making on insurance premium pricing and terms with Groups external insurer including for corporate tenders
• Assess and review exposure under the Premium Adjustment Model adopted by the Group. As a responsible and accountable member of the team, your role would involve not only conducting assessments and reviews under the Premium Adjustment Model, but also providing recommendations for any necessary adjustments to be made based on your findings. You would be expected to communicate these recommendations clearly to relevant stakeholders, and work collaboratively with others to ensure that any necessary actions are taken in a timely and effective manner. Ultimately, the outcome of your assessment and review would have a significant impact on the overall financial performance of the Group,
• Build strong working relations with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure business objectives are met.