- New Role
- Join a highly professional forwarding thinking team
- Hybrid working as standard
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 tot he GM, Finance Business Partnering. Partner with the Rest team and outsource partners to optimise our opportunities to deliver on our member and employer promises, including sound financial management and ensuring our members and the funds rights are protected.
Ensures accounting principles and practices are in place and delivered through the team to service, support and guide service partners and internal and external stakeholders on a day to day basis.
This involves budgetary and expense control and managing internal and external stakeholders to influence, advise and achieve desired business outcomes.
Provision of all business finance partnering capability for agreed Rest business units and divisions including
- Leading finance engagement and managing senior stakeholders to ensure that their finance needs are met.
- Spearheading delivery of key finance responsibilities and accountabilities for agreed business units, ensuring always that deliverables are completed on time and accurately.
- Strategic financial analysis for business opportunities, input into business cases, benefit identification, monitoring and realisation.
- Providing impactful analysis and decision support across business units.
- Preparation of the annual budget to be incorporated into the annual business plan.
- Assisting Stakeholders with Best Financial Interest Duty Assessments, including NPV calculations.
- Assistance with forecasting and monitoring including assisting cost centre managers with accurate and regular financial reporting.
- Promoting a culture of innovation and value add, encouraging staff to initiate innovative responses to current and future business needs.
- Display effective influencing skills, ability to build trust and challenge existing practice.
- Provide partnering in the form of coaching, advice, support and recommendations to business unit stakeholders to ensure understanding of budget financial responsibility and where financial performance indicators could improve. This will involve ensuring that operating costs are aligned with the overall strategic business plan.
- Ensure appropriate controls within the finance function are complied with and operating effectively to manage the operating risks, including manager and employee education, procedures and expense authorisation processes.
- Assist the business and transformation delivery management teams in the estimation of future costs and benefits for use in business case and budget preparation, and year on year spend for annual planning and forecasting purposes.
- Develop and implement new systems and processes to ensure ongoing efficiency improvements and cost reductions.
- Promote Rest’s financial risk management framework.
