Chief Operating Officer, Investments, Pacific

2 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Mercer Full time

Chief Operating Officer, Investments, Pacific

What can you expect?
Mercer is a leading global consulting firm advising organizations on the health, wealth and career needs of their workforce.

The firm is focused on redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes and unlocking real health and well-being by helping their clients design and manage people strategies, employee health, retirement and benefits, and optimize human capital within the organization.


Mercer's Pacific Investments business provides a range of investment, retirement and financial wellness services to super funds, endowments, foundations, insurers and wealth management businesses in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

The dominant service line in the Pacific region is the Investment Solutions (or "OCIO") business, represented as a significant value of FUM through ~more than 100 multi-manager co-mingled unit trust vehicles across a very broad range of asset classes including alternatives, both single sector as well as diversified multi-asset strategies.


We will count on you to:

  • Lead and manage Investment Operations, Data & Technology, Product, Governance & Risk teams to ensure exceptional client quality, delivery, and efficiency.
  • Drive and monitor process standardization, risk mitigation and offshoring efforts and related service level and cost efficiency KPIs.
  • Lead transformation and change initiatives.
  • Drive initiatives to ensure ongoing and progressive middle and back office people development and coaching.
  • Lead the execution activities on acquisition sourcing, due diligence and integration.
  • Contribute, develop, and provide input into wider business management.
  • Be a strong contributor to local and global leadership meetings and forums as appropriate.
  • As a key ambassador of the Investment business, represent Mercer strongly across the organization and in the market place

What you need to have:

  • Highly developed leadership capabilities with a minimum of 15 years of Investment Operations Management experience (Middle and Back Office)
  • Strong analytical and technical abilities and the ability to deliver fast, but carefully thoughtout results.
  • Strong and dynamic leadership capability to oversee work processes from beginning to end.
  • Excellent people and leadership skills, with an ability to partner and build relationships with a dynamic leadership team and varied stakeholders at all levels locally and globally
  • Client centric and commercially focused mindset
  • Demonstrated experience in financial and strategic planning and analysis with previous experience overseeing human resources and data and information technology.
  • Flexible with a demonstrated ability to multitask and the capacity to work with an ambiguous fastmoving environment, while also driving toward clarity and solutions.
  • Demonstrated resourcefulness in setting priorities and guiding investment in people and systems.
  • Highly developed communication and presentation skills with ability to support client and sales related activity.
  • Appropriate undergraduate degree is required with MBA qualifications preferred.

What makes you stand out?
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Strategic Leadership. Defines, evaluates and communicates long and medium-term objectives for defined clients. Focuses activities on the achievement of a vision or desired long term outcome.
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Results Focused. Expertise in delivering quality and consistently strong results
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Communication and Influence. Conveys written and verbal messages effectively to various audiences, adapting approach as appropriate. Displays sound listening and comprehensive skills.
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Innovation. Develops new and alternative approaches to existing practices, creates new or improved processes, solutions, products and services. Maintains an openness to experiment with alternative approaches.
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Collaboration. Acts as a connector across the organization, bring colleagues together to bring the best of the enterprise to client solutions.
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Decision Making. Identifies and understands issues, problems and opportunities; compares data from different sources to draw conclusions; uses effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; takes action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probably consequences.

  • Marsh and McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people regardless of their sex/gender, marital or parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, age, background, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity._

About Us
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