Senior Manager, Financial Reporting

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Rest, Australia’s large profit-to-member super fund, seeks a Senior Manager, Financial Reporting in Melbourne (full-time onsite). Lead accurate, timely and compliant reporting for all Rest Group entities, ensuring regulatory alignment and delivering insights to support Board, AFC and ELT decisions. Strengthen the control environment and drive end-to-end improvements while partnering with internal teams and external advisers. Requirements: CA or CPA and a degree in business or finance, plus demonstrated superannuation or financial services experience and deep regulatory knowledge. Tips: tailor your CV to show leadership of complex reporting, regulatory proficiency and measurable improvements, and reflect Rest’s Be Daring Keep It Simple Take Action Have Grit values. Benefits include hybrid working, development opportunities and parental leave. Closing date 24 February 2026. Apply now.

Company Description

Supporting millions of Aussies since 1988 with low fees and competitive long-term performance. Profits back to members, not shareholders

Closing date: 24th February 2026

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 more than two million members, with around $100 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.

Purpose

Provide leadership and subject matter expertise to ensure Rest’s financial accounting team delivers accurate, timely and compliant financial reporting for Rest’s trustee and investment entities. The role ensures strong financial controls, high‑quality insights and continuous improvement in alignment with Rest’s strategy and member‑first mission.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of accurate, timely and compliant financial reporting for all Rest Group entities, ensuring alignment with statutory, taxation and regulatory obligations
• Provide high‑quality financial insights and analysis to the GM, Financial and Regulatory Reporting to support Board, AFC and ELT reporting and strategic decision‑making.
• Strengthen Rest’s financial control environment by maintaining and improving finance policies, risk management practices and end‑to‑end reporting processes.
• Drive cross‑functional initiatives that uplift financial systems, processes and operational efficiency, ensuring continuous improvement and cost‑effective outcomes.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners (administrator, custodian, auditors, tax advisers and regulators) to ensure high‑quality reporting outcomes and smooth operational delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, or Commerce (Accounting major preferred)
• Chartered Accountant (CA) or Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) designation

Required experience, understanding or credentials including:

• Demonstrated experience in financial services, professional services or superannuation
• Strong understanding of the superannuation industry
• Deep knowledge of financial, regulatory and taxation reporting requirements relevant to superannuation funds
• Highly developed technical accounting capability, including the ability to apply accounting standards to complex arrangements

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 31 July 2025. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.