General Manager, Tax, Strategy

Sydney or Melbourne Senior Leadership role within our Finance & Investment Operations team Lead the Tax practice at Rest Established in 1988 Rest is one of Australias 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. 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. Your role will be to lead and set the tax strategy at Rest strategically managing the groups tax expense including reporting and statutory compliance in Australia and globally across direct and indirect taxes. Leading Rests key tax engagements and relationships. Responsibilities Proactively managing Groups aggregate global income tax expense across investment tax superannuation tax matters corporate taxes GST and all state tax liabilities. Developing a tax strategy for each investment asset class and develop and implement an effective tax rate measurement framework for investment tax matters both at an investment option level and across the Fund including with appropriate reporting and oversight. Embedding appropriate tax provisioning methodology taking to account current and future tax expenses across the investment options. Build effective working relationships with senior stakeholders including CFO CIO in the business with a view to embedding and improve business outcomes for members. Represent Rest on key industry taxation matters including external industry body tax committees. Working with the products advice and employer teams to help improve tax outcomes for Rest members. Drafting appropriate board and Audit Committee submissions on key tax matters relevant for director engagement. Reviewing group structures and operating models to ensure they are tax compliant and tax efficient. Responsibility for all tax governance frameworks including tax risk management policy. Input into product design particularly having regard to taxation considerations. Overall responsibility for groups tax compliance obligations across all taxes. Responsibility for managing Group relationship with taxation authorities in Australia and overseas. Leading a team of highly competent taxation professionals. Qualifications Degree qualified Finance / Accounting and / or Law. Member of the Chartered Accountants in Australia and New Zealand. Extensive experiencetax experience in the financial services preferably Superannuation. Proven experience leading and developing high performing teams. Demonstrated knowledge and experience of domestic and international direct and indirect taxation GST and other taxes. Proven expertise in business trends / changes in law that will impact the Tax team and influencepolicy change. Experiencedesigning control risk and governance frameworks. Benefits 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 Rests 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. Remote Work : No Employment Type : Full-time Key Skills Marketing, Data Visualization, Tableau, Customer Segmentation, Microsoft Powerpoint, Investment Banking, Strategic Planning, Financial Modeling, Customer relationship management, Management Consulting, Google Suite, Analytics Experience : years Vacancy : 1 #J-18808-Ljbffr