eFinancialCareers

• Company

  Vanguard

• Location

  Australia-Melbourne

• Remuneration

  Competitive

• Position Type

  Employee

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  20 Aug 2008

• eFC Ref no

  455141

The Vanguard Group has grown into one of the world's largest and most respected investment management companies with offices in the US, Melbourne, Sydney, Brussels, Tokyo and Singapore. Vanguard Investments Australia Ltd has been helping investors meet their long-term financial goals with low-cost indexing solutions for ten years and now manages over $70 billion on behalf of their retail and institutional clients. Vanguard is all about providing a better deal for clients and as they keep growing they continue to need talented, dedicated and focused people to help their clients realise their long-term financial potential.

An experienced senior compliance professional, you will report to the Head of Compliance and be responsible for:

• Managing compliance systems for the business;
• Reviewing and maintaining compliance risk and standards policies;
• Assisting with drafting and review of policy;
• Providing technical advice in conjunction with the legal team;
• Reviewing business processes and contributing to re-alignment where needed;
• Participating in the regulatory and legislative aspects of managed funds;
• Ensuring Vanguard's best practice standards of compliance systems and functionality are maintained;
• Providing training and mentoring around compliance systems to a high performance team; and
• Increasing compliance awareness, together with advanced service and solutions orientation for all Vanguard's business units.

You will be tertiary qualified (preferably in law, commerce or finance), have proven skills within a managed funds compliance function, be solutions focused and have a service oriented and practical approach to policy and procedure development. In addition you will possess strong presentation and communication skills, together with a capacity to think laterally and deliver technically excellent advice in a commercial context.

For a strictly confidential discussion, please call Aaron Mathieson on + 61 3 9935 5272 or submit your resume via the link below quoting reference number AM80.