Product Governance Specialist

2 weeks ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Vanguard Full time
About Vanguard

Vanguard is a leading investment management company that has been serving investors for over 45 years. With a commitment to doing the right thing, we strive to provide our clients with the best possible investment outcomes.

Our company is built on a unique business model, with no external shareholders and a focus on investing profits back into the business. This allows us to keep costs low and provide our clients with high-quality investment products.

Product Governance and Disclosure Team

The Product Governance and Disclosure Team is a critical part of Vanguard's operations, responsible for maintaining the integrity of our product offer and ensuring compliance with key regulatory requirements.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced professional to join our team as a Product Governance Specialist. In this role, you will be responsible for implementing and maintaining our integrated product governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and internal standards.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Implement, maintain, and continually improve our integrated product governance frameworks for managed funds, ETFs, superannuation, and investor-directed portfolio services.
  2. Proactively identify and analyze the impact of emerging regulatory requirements on our product suite and assist in driving the required changes across the product range.
  3. Carry out regulatory compliance processes, such as product reviews and critical assessments, and draft regulatory documents, while maintaining appropriate records to support these processes.
  4. Coordinate, analyze, and continually enhance data gathering for the purposes of ensuring compliance with key regulatory requirements and improving the product governance frameworks.
  5. Prepare regular reporting to the Product Governance Committee and Board on the outcomes of our monitoring arrangements.
  6. Assist and provide support for new services or product initiatives undertaken by Vanguard, with a product governance lens.
  7. Work closely and develop strong relationships across the organization, particularly with key business partners, as well as the broader Australian and global product teams.
  8. Ensure comprehensive governance-related policy and process documentation is created, maintained, and regularly reviewed.
  9. Undertake other product governance-related activities as required.
Requirements
  1. Self-motivated governance professional with strong relationship and stakeholder management skills who is comfortable proactively navigating complex, multi-layered tasks.
  2. Experience in implementing and managing Design and Distribution Obligations (DDO) or similar governance requirements in an investment management or superannuation context.
  3. Embraces challenge, is curious, and comfortable with ambiguity, and drives relentlessly towards agreed outcomes that ensure the ongoing integrity of Vanguard's product suite.
  4. Minimum 3 years related work experience across the funds management and/or superannuation industry.
  5. Undergraduate degree in a related discipline.
  6. Proven ability to think strategically and influence stakeholders.
  7. Demonstrated ability to embrace continual improvement and new ways of working to achieve superior outcomes.
Specializations that will make an impact
  1. Experience working in financial services, a fund management, wealth business, or a superannuation fund.
  2. Strong knowledge of financial services regulatory requirements and experience implementing recent regulatory reforms, including RG274.
  3. Experience in analyzing large data sets to identify trends relevant to consumer outcomes and product performance.
  4. Strong written communication skills, including previous experience in drafting regulatory documents.
  5. Strong investment product governance and investment product acumen.
  6. Strong knowledge of Vanguard's range of products and distribution channels.
Inclusion Statement

Vanguard's commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve.

We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard's core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection.



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