Senior Manager, Business Change, Investments

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Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
Hybrid
Senior level
Financial Services
Rest Super
The Role
Own the Investment division’s change agenda by translating strategy into prioritised business demand, business cases, operating model designs, and governance decisions. The role manages benefits definition and realization, business adoption, change readiness, and embedding new processes and ways of working. It partners with transformation, technology, delivery, and investment leadership teams to prioritize initiatives, track value, and support program and project governance.
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Company Description

We’ve been around since 1988, and today we’re one of Australia’s largest profit‑to‑member super funds.

That means everything we do is focused on delivering better outcomes for our members – not shareholders.

Closing date: 20th October 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

At Rest, we help more than 2 million Australians to build a better financial future. With around $112 billion in funds under management, we focus on delivering strong long-term outcomes for our members — from their first job through to retirement*. Your best at Rest means focusing on what matters, being trusted to get on with it, and knowing your work genuinely makes a difference. That’s how we operate every day, guided by our values: Be Daring, Keep It Simple, Take Action and Have Grit.

Join us as a Senior Manager, Business Change where you’ll act as the Investment division's business owner of change, turning strategy into prioritised, decision-ready demand and holding the division to the value it set out to capture. This is your opportunity to make a real contribution to the financial wellbeing of millions of Australians.

The role holds the integrated view across the division's whole change agenda, drives the work that shapes and progresses initiatives toward approval, and owns business adoption and the ongoing realisation of benefits, on behalf of the CIO and Head of CIO Office. It partners closely with Transformation, Technology & Enablement, Investments Platforms and Delivery (TTE - IPD), which is accountable for portfolio management and delivery of the approved change portfolio. Together this frees investment professionals to focus on investing.

  • Hold a single, integrated view of demand, priorities and benefits across the Investment division's whole change agenda, sothe CIO, Head of CIO Office and Leadership Team can see, prioritise and steer the whole picture rather than isolated initiatives.
  • Turn approved strategy into framed, prioritised business demand, building the case for change, including options analysis, business operating model design and decision-ready papers, and shepherding proposals through to an investment or governance decision. Secure CIO and Investment Leadership Team decisions on priorities and trade-offs, and submit prioritised demand into TTE-IPD's commitment process.
  • Own how benefits are defined, baselined, tracked and reported for investment initiatives, drawing on TTE - IPD's portfolio view for delivery status, holding benefit owners to account after implementation and giving the CIO a clear view of realised value against the business case.
  • Own business adoption for investment change, making sure adoption owners are named, the business is ready before go-live, and new processes, operating model and ways of working are embedded and sustained.
  • Support the embedding of Rest's program and project governance and delivery model within the Investment Group, including the realisation of project benefits, working with the Head of Delivery, Portfolio and Change, Investments

Qualifications

  • Business, Commerce, Economics or Finance degree
  • Demonstrated experience turning strategy into business cases and prioritised demand in a complex investment or financial services environment, including options analysis, business operating model design and decision-ready papers for senior governance.
  • Strong grounding in benefits and value management, defining, baselining, tracking and holding owners to account for realised value against the business case. Whole of system thinking, with deep understanding of how value is created across the superfund and its partners (custodian, asset managers, administrator, etc.) and how to drive effective value sharing.

Additional Information

.What you'll find at Rest

  • Hybrid working
  • 5 Rest Days (wellbeing days) each year in addition to annual leave
  • Eligible employees are entitled to 22 weeks paid parental leave (gender neutral)
  • Continued super contributions during parental leave
  • Learning and development opportunities, including AI & Data Academy, leadership programs, LinkedIn Learning, study assistance and professional memberships
  • Income Protection Insurance
  • Option to purchase additional leave
  • Recognition through our Rest Excellence Awards

If you share our values and this sounds like the kind of place you’d do your best work, we’d like to hear from you. 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.

We welcome applications from all candidates. To be considered, you will need the right to work in Australia.

*Funds under management as at 30 June 2026. Rest is recognised as a superannuation leader across a range of areas including performance, responsible investment and member value. Find out more at https://rest.com.au/why-rest/awards.

Skills Required

  • Business, Commerce, Economics, or Finance degree
  • Experience translating strategy into business cases and prioritised demand within a complex investment or financial services environment
  • Experience conducting options analysis, business operating model design, and preparing decision-ready papers for senior governance
  • Strong benefits and value management experience, including defining, baselining, tracking, and reporting realised value against business cases
  • Understanding of how value is created across a superannuation fund and its partners, including custodians, asset managers, and administrators
  • Right to work in Australia
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The Company
HQ: Sydney, New South Wales
1,716 Employees
Year Founded: 1988

What We Do

Supporting millions of Aussies since 1988 with low fees and competitive long-term performance. Profits back to members, not shareholders ? Product issued by Retail Employees Superannuation Pty Limited. Consider if it is appropriate for you and read the PDS available at rest.com.au/pds before deciding to join or stay. Head to rest.com.au to learn more. Full website and social media terms and conditions: https://rest.com.au/why-rest/about-rest/fund-details/terms-and-conditions

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