Valuations Manager

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: 11th September 2025

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 Valuation Manager, where you’ll have oversight of a diversified portfolio of internally and externally managed unlisted investments, supporting the delivery of accurate, transparent, and well-governed valuation outcomes. The position coordinates team planning and priorities, facilitates effective team operations, and serves as the lead coordinator for external audits, helping ensure strong governance, regulatory compliance, and audit readiness. 

• Lead the valuation oversight and review of a portfolio of internally and externally managed unlisted investments, ensuring valuation outcomes are robust, independently challenged, and appropriately documented.
• Identify, assess, and manage valuation risks across assigned investments, ensuring compliance with internal policy, governance, audit, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop strong relationships with Investment teams, external managers, external valuers, auditors, and other stakeholders to facilitate effective valuation oversight and challenge.
• Review and challenge valuation methodologies, assumptions, forecasts, and key inputs to ensure an independent and well-supported view of value.
• Monitor portfolio valuation trends and emerging risks, maintain key valuation databases and metrics, and provide insights to support decision-making and governance forums.
• Prepare and present valuation papers, recommendations, and findings to the Finance Valuation Committee and other governance bodies.
• Lead the coordination of the annual external audit process for unlisted asset valuations, including managing requests, timelines, stakeholder engagement, and issue resolution.
• Coordinate the Valuations team work plan and priorities, chair weekly team meetings, and support the effective delivery of team objectives.
• Provide coaching, training, and technical guidance to team members, helping build valuation capability and supporting career development.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across valuation governance, processes, systems, reporting, and technology, including leading strategic projects and process enhancements.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in Commerce (preference major in Finance/ Accounting/ Property)
• Postgraduate qualifications such as CA/CPA or CFA or CPV
• Proven experience working within a large accounting firm, a boutique valuation firm, or an institutional/corporate investing organisation
• Strong technical valuation and financial modelling skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to present ideas and challenge thinking.
• Agile and comfortable working in a team where project management of multiple tasks is required.
• Experience managing projects with several stakeholders and service providers.

Additional Information

.What you'll find at Rest

• Hybrid working
• 5 Rest Days (wellbeing days) each year in addition to annual leave
• 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.