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• Senior leadership role with accountability for the overall Rest-wide strategy
• Work with the Rest Board and Executive team
• Leading industry fund with significant market presence 

About Us

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

We support over two million members, with around $80 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 GM Strategy is one of the most critical, senior influencing and cross-functional leadership roles at Rest. Reporting to the Chief Strategy, People and Corporate Affairs officer, your role as the GM Strategy will be a key role, working with the Rest Executive leadership team, Board, Senior Leaders and others within Rest and across the industry.

You will have overall accountability for

• Designing, facilitating, and delivering the overall Rest-wide strategy process, including Board-level and Executive-level strategic planning.
• Developing and managing an industry-leading strategic vision for Rest

Responsibilities

• Design, facilitate, and deliver the overall Rest-wide annual and long-term strategy process, including running the annual Board Strategy process, and contributing significantly to annual Business Plans.
• Develop and manage an industry-leading strategic vision for Rest
• Lead a cross-functional strategic planning and strategy leadership group, to achieve alignment and integration of functional strategies across Rest.
• Bring best practice thought leadership and ‘outside in’ perspective to Rest.
• Provide strategic advice consulting as required, including regarding ad hoc matters.
• Work with internal teams and external stakeholders and partners to ensure there we maintain a comprehensive view of Rest’s strategic landscape.

As the Technology Cost and Benefits Manager, you will be responsible for evaluating the costs associated with technology initiatives, analysing their benefits, and providing recommendations to ensure cost-effectiveness and maximum value for Technology and the organisation.

Additionally, you will lead a team to provide operational planning, dependencies management, reporting, financial management, ensuring seamless coordination with the broader Technology deliverables.

The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, financial stakeholders, and technology leaders to drive informed decision-making in technology investments. It also involves establishing and upholding a comprehensive Value Management Framework to assess, track and optimise the value derived from technology investments and spend.
 

Key Accountabilities:

• Establish and uphold a comprehensive Value Management Framework to assess and optimise the value derived from technology investments and spend.
• Actively manage the enterprise value management framework with focus on ensuring all work to be delivered by Technology has a clear outcome and measurable benefit and realisation plan defined, signed off by Sponsor and Business Owner, planned for with Finance and then is frequently tracked and reported on. Provision of actionable insights will be key as these will feed through to Steering Committees
• Drive business management practices within our Technology teams
• Ensure alignment with the overarching Technology strategy and contribute to the budget planning process.
• Develop input for internal and external reporting; material for tenders, contractual review summaries, scheduling and minuting agreed governance meetings.
• Assure delivery of maximum value within budget and with minimum risk while quickly responding to changing business needs and demand across the portfolio. Strategic cost management across the total Technology portfolio and insightful reporting to Leadership Team required.
• Drive business impact through creation of new Commercial Management tools/processes (or optimisation and automation of existing ones) that solve for team-wide pain points and opportunities.
• Set up best practice frameworks for governance, risk identification & management, vendor management, value management, strategic planning & reporting.
• Develop and maintain Technology Dashboard to measure operational effectiveness and impact. Co-ordinate input for Board and external reporting as required.
• Direct adoption of vendor management best practices – managing key inputs for strategic vendor meetings directly.
• Manage and optimise the current budgeting process & BAU business management – Supporting SoWs, BAU reporting, contracts, invoices
• Drive structured approach to managing cost-to-income (cost base diligence) improvements across Technology Delivery, working with Platform Leads to set, track and report benefits ( cost reduction and avoidance). Maintain refreshed TCO profiles.
• Active participation and ownership of strategic focus areas covering workforce management, operating model, vendor management, technology obsolescence & simplification and technology acceleration.
• Lead and coach team to provide consistency in process, service and stakeholder support through process.
• Drive the annual strategic budget setting process for Technology Delivery – with input from broader Technology Leadership Team, ensuring strong alignment across strategy-> budget->delivery goals with focus on what is required to deliver and impacts of change.