Governance Manager, People & Culture

Rest; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 Rest Days (wellbeing)

22 weeks parental leave (gender‑un)

Learning & development opportunities

Income Protection Insurance

Leave purchase option

Rest Excellence Awards

Job summary

Rest, one of Australia’s leading profit-to-member super funds, seeks a Manager, Governance to oversee P&C governance operations. You will coordinate governance processes, maintain key registers, monitor obligations, and support committee reporting, collaborating with the GM and SMEs to ensure timely, well-documented governance outcomes.

The role focuses on remuneration policy compliance, risk management, and maintaining governance documentation across multiple priorities in a regulated financial

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in law, governance, risk, compliance, HR, or business.
• Experience in board and remuneration governance and CPS 511.
• Experience in regulated financial services environments.
• Proven ability to coordinate governance processes and maintain records.

Responsibilities

• Manage the People, Culture & Remuneration Committee calendar, paper governance, decision record and action log for the GM.
• Maintain governance records supporting remuneration and risk processes, including Joint Committee and Consequence Management documentation and evidence, working with Reward and other accountable SMEs.
• Work with the GM, Reward team and Office of the FAR to ensure FAR and APRA CPS 511 governance requirements are met, maintaining records, evidence and action tracking to support remuneration policy compliance and Committee decisions.
• Maintain the P&C policy and procedure register, coordinating review cycles, version control, accountable-owner updates and attestations, and escalating overdue or incomplete actions.
• Maintain the obligations register covering the Fair Work Act, National Employment Standards, modern awards and any enterprise agreement, conduct compliance reviews and track remediation with accountable owners. Monitor and assess regulatory changes affecting people, pay and P&C, translating them into impact assessments, named ownership and implementation plans before commencement.
• Maintain the P&C supplier register and contract governance, including the consolidated view of providers and spend, supplier risk assessments, performance reviews, renewals, budget management and material service provider obligations.
• Support P&C governance and control reporting, collating evidence and monitoring agreed actions, issues and remediation with accountable SMEs.

Skills

Board governance

Remuneration governance

Regulatory awareness

Analytical capability

Documentation & records

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification (law, governance, risk, compliance, HR, business)

Job description

Rest, one of Australia’s leading profit-to-member super funds, seeks a Manager, Governance to oversee P&C governance operations. You will coordinate governance processes, maintain key registers, monitor obligations, and support committee reporting, collaborating with the GM and SMEs to ensure timely, well-documented governance outcomes.

The role focuses on remuneration policy compliance, risk management, and maintaining governance documentation across multiple priorities in a regulated financial