Company Description
Supporting millions of Aussies since 1988 with low fees and competitive long-term performance. Profits back to members, not shareholders
Closing date: 20th August 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
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.
This role sits within the Investment Risk and Compliance team, supporting Rest Investments in managing compliance and risk. The team ensures portfolio adherence to internal policies, mandates, and regulatory requirements, while also contributing to investment frameworks, policy implementation, and strategic projects. Reporting to the Senior Manager, the role plays a key part in strengthening investment compliance and enhancing the control environment.
Some key accountabilities of the role are:
- Advise and support the Investment Team on compliance and operational risk, including policy and procedure development.
- Monitor pre/post-trade activity to ensure compliance with investment limits; report breaches and coordinate resolutions.
- Oversee mandate compliance for internal and external managers, ensuring adherence to investment agreements.
- Track compliance with investment guidelines and risk limits across all mandates and aggregated portfolios.
- Build strong relationships with internal teams, external managers, and the fund custodian.
- Lead improvements in analytics, data quality, models, and reporting.
- Ensure effective implementation of model risk management.
Qualifications
- Tertiary qualification in finance, economics, business, actuarial studies or equivalent
- Key designations (e.g., MBA, CFA, CAIA, FRM) are highly desirable.
Required experience, understanding or credentials including:
- Demonstrated and proven experience in in risk and compliance within an asset manager, a superannuation fund or risk consulting organisation.
- Demonstrated ‘commercial’ approach to investment risk and compliance, including demonstrated ability to engage effectively with senior decision makers and portfolio managers
- A proven ability to provide expert risk and compliance advice, while being able to manage multiple and complex stakeholders
- Experience in managing multiple projects and prioritising competing deadlines
- Demonstrated ‘commercial’ approach to compliance risk management
- Well-developed interpersonal skills coupled with sound oral and written communications skills
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 Super culture, please click Apply Now.
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 30 June 2024. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.