Business Assurance & Controls Manager

• Lead on Business Risk Assurance and Controls as an SME. 
• Develop trusted relationships with business leaders and teams to deliver workshops, provide risk assurance advice, and control testing services. 
• Flexible working at either our Melbourne or Sydney Office.

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.

As the Business Assurance and Controls Manager, you will support leadership of the Business Assurance and Strategic Support Team in the provision of control assurance services over critical operations and material service providers. You will also provide advice, subject matter expertise, and advisory services to line 1 risk and the business across the critical process’s obligations, processes and change.

• Complete Assurance Reviews across the Material Service Providers Assurance Plans, consistent with their level of criticality and risk. 
• Provide control testing education, advice and training to first line risk teams and the broader business. 
• Develop and execute the controls assurance plans across Rest’s critical operations. 
• Provide advice and support for the identification of risks, controls, obligations, business and regulatory change on critical operations.
• Facilitate risk and control assessment workshops.  
• Support the annual critical operations assurance attestation and reporting process to group executives and the board.  
• Support the implementation of CPS230 and associated business resilience practices

Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline and/or experience in -

• Experience in a Risk and/or Compliance role within the financial services industry.  
• Leadership experience to make informed decisions, setting priorities and providing direction to business leaders, and teams.  
• Thorough understanding of Control Testing and Assurance, frameworks, methodologies and practices.  
• Demonstrated knowledge of business continuity management, operational resilience and/or familiarity with CPS230.  
• Demonstrated knowledge of business process architecture principles and practices and how risk is managed on process.

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.