Location:
Melbourne, Brisbane or Sydney

About the Client:

A rare opportunity has arisen for an experienced investment governance professional to establish and lead a newly created Investment Governance function within a large financial services organisation.

This role sits at the intersection of funds management, investment oversight, product governance and trustee services, offering broad exposure across a diverse range of investment products and asset classes.

Leading a small specialist team, you will be responsible for building capability, enhancing frameworks and providing subject matter expertise (SME) across investment governance activities.

About the Role:

Reporting to a senior executive leadership team, you will play a key role in developing and embedding a centralised investment governance framework while acting as a trusted adviser across the business.

Key responsibilities include:

- Oversight of fund performance monitoring, liquidity management and stress testing activities;
- Monitoring investment risks, mandate compliance and exception management processes;
- Acting as the business's investment governance subject matter expert across a broad range of managed funds and asset classes;
- Reviewing product structures, fund characteristics and disclosure obligations, including Target Market Determinations (TMDs);
- Providing specialist input into product onboarding, investment due diligence and governance activities;
- Leading valuation governance activities and serving as a key escalation point for complex valuation matters;
- Preparing reporting for governance committees, boards and senior stakeholders;
- Partnering with internal stakeholders, clients, relationship managers and service providers to address investment governance matters and provide technical guidance;
- Building knowledge and capability across the broader business through education,



support and thought leadership; AND
- Leading and developing a small team while driving continuous improvement across frameworks, policies and processes;

About You:

We are seeking a leader with deep investment industry knowledge and the ability to balance technical expertise with solid stakeholder engagement skills and investment governance strategy.

You will ideally bring:

- Extensive experience within funds management, investment governance, responsible entity, trustee services, investment risk or product governance environments;
- Strong understanding of managed funds, investment products and associated regulatory obligations;
- Experience overseeing areas such as performance monitoring, liquidity management, stress testing, valuation governance and investment risk;
- Working knowledge of product governance, disclosure requirements and fund onboarding processes;
- Strong stakeholder management capabilities with the confidence to engage, influence and challenge where required;
- Previous people leadership experience or the capability to build and lead a specialist team;
- Excellent communication skills and experience preparing papers and reporting for governance committees, executive stakeholders or boards; AND
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in Finance, Economics, Business or a related discipline. CFA qualifications will be highly regarded;

This is an opportunity to build something rather than simply inherit it.

You will lead a newly centralised function, shape future investment governance frameworks, work closely with senior stakeholders and become a recognised subject matter expert across investment governance, valuation oversight, product governance and investment risk within a complex and evolving investment environment.

For a confidential discussion, please contact Amanda Chisholm at ******@KaizenRecruitment.com.au or apply via the link below.

📌 Head of Investment Governance- Funds Management (Sydney)
🏢 Kaizen Recruitment
📍 Sydney