Senior Manager - Investment Operations & Governance

• Growing firm!

About Our Client

This organisation operates within the financial services industry and is based in Melbourne.

Job Description

Investment & Fund Operations

• Manage operational requirements across a portfolio of public and private market investments.
• Coordinate the end-to-end subscription and onboarding process for new private market investments.
• Review investment documentation and coordinate legal, tax and operational due diligence with external advisers.
• Manage KYC, AML and information requests from investment managers and counterparties.
• Coordinate capital calls and distributions and ensure transactions are accurately reflected across accounting and investment records.
• Oversee trade confirmations, settlements, investment pricing and reconciliations.
• Reconcile private market investment records against underlying manager and capital statements.
• Prepare and review regular private market and investment reporting.
• Provide support across management, performance and cashflow reporting.

Governance & Compliance

• Maintain and enhance the organisation's governance and compliance framework.
• Review existing policies and develop new policies, procedures and controls as the business evolves.
• Establish practical processes to monitor ongoing compliance with internal policies and regulatory obligations.
• Coordinate regulatory requirements associated with the organisation's investment activities and licensing arrangements.
• Manage regulatory correspondence and information requests where required.
• Coordinate corporate governance requirements including board and committee documentation, resolutions and statutory records.
• Manage relevant insurance policies and renewals.
• Support payroll-related compliance obligations including payroll tax and workers compensation.

Audit, Tax & Financial Oversight

• Take ownership of the external audit process, coordinating internal stakeholders and external auditors through to completion.
• Assist in developing and maintaining an appropriate internal audit and control framework.
• Coordinate with Australian and international tax advisers to ensure tax obligations are completed accurately and within required deadlines.
• Oversee recurring tax and statutory requirements including BAS and FBT.
• Support the appropriate accounting and tax treatment of investment activity, including capital calls, distributions and private market transactions.
• Coordinate specialist advice for more complex international investment and tax matters.

The Successful Applicant

Ideally, you will bring:

• Approximately 7+ years' experience across funds management, investment management, private markets, financial services or a related environment.
• A strong accounting or finance foundation, ideally supported by CA, CPA or equivalent qualifications.
• Experience within investment operations, fund accounting, fund finance, financial control or a similarly broad position.
• Exposure to private market investments such as private equity, private credit, property, infrastructure or other alternatives.
• Understanding of capital calls, distributions, investment reconciliations and fund/investment reporting.
• Experience coordinating external audit, tax advisers and other professional service providers.
• Exposure to governance, compliance, risk or regulatory requirements within an investment environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and confidence dealing with trustees, lawyers, auditors, tax advisers, investment managers and other counterparties.
• Strong attention to detail combined with the ability to understand the broader commercial implications of your work.
• Experience with AFSL requirements, private market subscription documentation, international investment structures or US-based funds would be advantageous but is not essential.

What's on Offer

• This is an opportunity to take on a genuinely broad role within an investment environment, gaining exposure across private markets, investment operations, governance, compliance, finance and fund administration.
• Rather than operating within a narrow functional remit, you will have visibility across the investment lifecycle and the opportunity to take meaningful ownership of how the organisation's operational and governance framework develops over time.