About Us
Australian Ethical is one of Australia’s fastest-growing super fund and ethical investment managers. We are ASX-listed with over $14 billion in funds under management and offer a selection of award-winning managed funds and superannuation products.
Our purpose is to invest for a better world, and we have been pioneers in this space for almost 40 years. For us, investing has two aims – generating solid financial returns and a positive impact for people, planet, and animals. At Australian Ethical, we prove that money can be a force for good. We do this by staying true to our purpose, which is embedded throughout our organisation and drives our everyday activities as a business, investor, brand, employer, and corporate citizen. We’re a registered B Corp and fully committed to an inclusive, equitable and forward-thinking workplace culture.
Your New Role
In this 10-month contract as Data Governance Lead, you will help uplift data governance across Australian Ethical by establishing a practical framework, clear ownership model, and the policies, standards and controls needed to improve data quality, accountability and risk management.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Establish and embed data governance policies, standards, controls and practical ways of working across the business
- Define data ownership, stewardship and accountability across key business domains, ensuring roles and responsibilities are clear
- Identify Critical Data Elements and support risk assessments with Data Owners to determine what data is most important to the organisation
- Set data quality standards and monitoring processes to improve the accuracy, completeness and reliability of key data sets
- Design issue management processes to support timely detection, escalation, remediation and ongoing monitoring of data issues
- Partner with Internal stakeholders and external vendors to understand data flows, risks and business requirements
- Support governance forums and working groups to drive adoption, accountability and alignment with CPG 235 expectations
- Deliver training to help teams understand and apply data governance policies, standards and controls in day-to-day practice
What we’re looking for:
You are a pragmatic, delivery-focused data governance professional who can design practical frameworks, bring stakeholders together and turn policy into measurable adoption. You bring a strong risk mindset, clear communication style and the confidence to work across business and technology teams to lift data governance maturity in a regulated environment.
If you have the following, we’d love to hear from you:
- Minimum 4+ years’ relevant data or information governance experience, including hands-on framework design and implementation
- Financial services experience, ideally across superannuation, banking or funds management
- Strong experience designing and embedding data governance policies, standards and controls across core data governance domains in a regulated environment.
- Excellent understanding of CPG 235 and how it applies to data management, controls and risk
- Experience defining data ownership, stewardship, Critical Data Elements, data quality and lineage
- Knowledge of data retention, archiving and destruction practices
- Strong internal and external stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence across business, technology and vendor groups.
- Tertiary background in Data Information Management or a related discipline
- Alignment with and demonstration of our values – Authenticity, Action, Connection, Curiosity and Empathy
What’s in it for you
- A competitive salary, including short-term and long-term incentives including access to an Employee Share Plan
- Hybrid work arrangements
- Wellbeing program that includes an extra 4 days of leave per year
- Birthday leave
- Purpose aligned volunteer days
- 20 days paid annual leave with an additional 3 paid days of annual leave between Christmas and New Year
Want to know more about what it's like to work at Australian Ethical? Check out our LinkedIn Life Page here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/australian-ethical-investment/life/ or our Careers and Culture page here: https://www.australianethical.com.au/work-with-us/
At Australian Ethical we embrace diversity in our people and thinking. We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer and never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital or disability status.
Join the Team
If this role interests you and you'd love to join the Australian Ethical team, apply here. We look forward to hearing from you!
Please note
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Applications or approaches via recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Background checks will be conducted for the successful candidate, as per our regulatory requirements as a financial services organisation
