Investments Data Governance & Operations Manager

Company Description
Supporting millions of Aussies since 1988 with low fees and competitive long-term performance. Profits back to members, not shareholders
Closing date: 15th March 2024
Please note Rest does not accept speculative resumes from recruitment agencies
Job Description

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About Us
Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.
We support nearly two million members, with around $75 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.
About the Job
Manages the Investments data Governance and operations delivery function, team, and capabilities, (people, processes, and systems), to deliver data driven analysis, reporting, and insights, to enable market leading Investment management monitoring, reporting and decision making across the end-to-end Investments lifecycle.
Responsible for Rest’s Investments Data Governance and operations function.
This role is expected to work with the Rest enterprise Data organization to adopt and embed sound data management practices into how we operate the Investments data solutions and to ensure the appropriate operating model controls to deliver accurate and complete data to the Investments organisation.
Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Operationalize data management capabilities, processes, and the organizational design.
• Lead and develop the Investment Data operational team, comprising of data analysts, and reporting specialists
• Accountable to implement and drive Data Governance practices and assurance, develop data stewardship and ownership roles across the Investment function, ensuring alignment and adoption from the Enterprise framework standards.
• Develop and maintain the operating model for the Investments Data Governance, aligning with enterprise standards and practices.
• Ensure accurate and timely data, reporting and analytics delivery to investments, including data onboarding, data issue resolution, engages project teams to ensure proper data usage.
• Information/Data Architecture: working with technology and architecture for tooling, standards + practice.
• Drive a strong focus on delivering business value via improvement of data quality and the protection of sensitive data.
• Define and embed roles and responsibilities related to Data Governance and ensure clear accountability for stewardship of the company’s principal information assets.
• Collaborate with the wider business to define, execute, champion, and embed Rest's Data Governance model into the Investments data function.
• Work with the vendor relationship management and data team to coordinate external data sources to eliminate redundancy and streamline the processes related to those services.
• Ensure adoption of the organizational data policies, standards, principles guidelines and standard operating processes.
• Preparation / presentation of Data Governance content for MIC review and for input into Enterprise reporting and oversight requirements as required.
• Run end to end data analysis and reporting services, providing data quality management services, deliver controlled quality assured data assets to the investment’s teams, supported by issue/incident resolution processes.

Qualifications
About You:
Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary or technical qualifications in Data, Information Systems, Information Management, Finance, or related field.

Required experience, understanding or credentials including:

• Demonstrated experience leading and managing high performing data operations and service delivery teams within Investment functional domain.
• Proven ability to identify and develop innovative data, reporting and analysis solutions and drive organisational transformation through data and analytical practices.
• Demonstrable experience with Investment data solutions in an Asset Owner environment e.g. Custodian Data Services, Front Office platforms, FactSet, Bloomberg, Third Party Investment Data Management platforms, Custom Investment Reporting Data Analytics solutions or similar
• Track record of managing dependencies between complex environments and dealing with issues discovered during project implementations.
• Excellent stakeholder communication, engagement and influencing skills ranging from C-suite to Data Analyst positions.
• Good knowledge of agile software/product delivery and lean working practices.

Additional Information
Benefits
Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:

• Personal and professional development opportunities
• Flexible, hybrid working – work to suit your lifestyle (must be based in Australia)
• Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave
• Meeting free breaks (Rest Stops)
• Income Protection Insurance
• Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest’s values and behaviours)

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 2023. Rest is recognised as a by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.
Rest will review applications prior to the closing date and may close the role earlier