This is a hands‑on leadership position suited to someone who thrives on building capability, improving processes, and working closely with senior stakeholders across the investment life-cycle.
About the role
You’ll take responsibility for the end‑to‑end investment compliance function, covering mandate monitoring, regulatory oversight, risk control uplift, reporting, and stakeholder management.
You will lead a small team, modernise processes, and act as the primary point of contact for compliance matters across Investments, Legal, Finance, Risk, and external service providers.
What you’ll be doing
- Leading and developing a high‑performing investment compliance team
- Overseeing mandate and policy compliance across a diverse investment program
- Supporting regulatory compliance, risk assessments and control enhancements
- Managing relationships with custodians, investment managers and internal stakeholders
- Preparing governance reporting and contributing to strategic decision‑making
- Driving continuous improvement across systems, processes and data quality
- Strong understanding of IMAs, fund structures, custodial models and compliance tools
- Knowledge of regulatory expectations in APRA/ASIC‑regulated environments
- Significant experience in investment compliance, investment operations or fund accounting
- Proven leadership experience within investment compliance or financial services
- Analytical capability, confident decision-making and ability to work under pressure
- A collaborative, grounded style with the ability to influence effectively
- Senior, visible role within a large, high‑quality institutional investor
- Strong executive support for uplift, modernisation and process improvement
- Genuine scope to shape the compliance function and drive meaningful impact
- Competitive salary package with performance incentives