Consultant, Investment Governance

10/10/2025

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We are looking for a Consultant to join our Investment Governance Team. The Consultant will ensure the delivery of high-quality investment and strategic advice and research to Frontier clients involving:

• Client work management and relationships
• Manager research
• Investment research
• Specialist projects; and
• Associated business responsibilities as directed by the CEO

Key responsibilities include:

Client work management and relationships

Undertake client work and build and consolidate client relationships as directed by the client team leader(s) by:

• Maintaining awareness at all times of the clients to which you have been allocated and taking responsibility for those relationships and for guiding Associates who work with you on those client teams.
• Providing strong support for the client team leader.
• Contributing effectively to the development and maintenance of client relationships by identifying and employing strategies to secure and/or enhance such relationships.
• Providing high quality and timely advice to clients and becoming valued by the client.
• Ensuring that work is subject to Frontier's quality assurance processes.
• Demonstrating initiative and pro-activity towards clients and service delivery.
• Developing and maintaining an appreciation of the overall range of services provided by Frontier, and which Frontier staff members have expertise in various areas, and getting those staff involved in client matters as needed.
• Maintaining full and up to date work lists for your clients via SharePoint.
• Ensuring your client contracts are serviced to specifications, without over-servicing.

Manager research

Undertake manager research to maintain and improve your and the firm's knowledge and understanding of managers dealt with on behalf of clients as well as other relevant managers, and enhance your capacity to provide research support to other Frontier staff as directed by your research team leader by:

• Providing strong support to the research team leader and senior team members, including effectively contributing to idea development and undertaking assigned role within the team to ensure that manager intelligence is disseminated throughout Frontier in a timely manner.
• Being an active participant in the manager research process, including the manager review and rating process, the preparation of due diligence documents such as annual reviews, MAPS and other documents.
• Supporting other team members in their manager rating process via peer review.
• Delivering SharePoint content that is sufficient, up to date within agreed deadlines and of high quality. SharePoint content includes regular monitoring for investee managers, annual reviews for invested managers and any other due diligence materials prepared as part of the manager review and ratings process.
• Assisting in other research teams as needed or as directed by the Director of Research.
• Research team allocations are based on business requirements and linked to individual capabilities.

Capital markets research

Where requested, carry out capital markets and asset allocation research to improve your and the firm's knowledge and understanding of capital markets and related issues faced by clients, and enhance your capacity to provide capital markets research support to other Frontier staff as directed by the capital markets team leader by:

• Making a strong contribution to the preparation of the Annual Secular Outlook and the Quarterly Market Outlook.
• Working, as required, with the capital market team leader and other senior team members on the annual review of the proprietary Capital Market Assumptions (CMA), and the annual preparation of scenario testing and stress testing.
• Undertaking relevant economic and financial market research pieces; and
• Working with the capital market team leader to provide client communications on key market events in a timely way.

Investment research

Actively participate in Frontier's investment research program, broaden investment knowledge to expand Frontier's intellectual capital and add value to clients' portfolios by:

• Specialising in assigned areas and areas which have the potential to add value to Frontier. Areas of specialisation are used for manager and investment research and may be developed with the goal of becoming a subject matter expert to assist other Frontier staff.
• Compiling and completing research papers and/or projects within agreed timeframes, with appropriate peer review and in the appropriate format.
• As requested, working with Associates to develop research capabilities.

Specialist projects

Where requested, actively participate in Frontier's specialist projects and development program within a specialist team by:

• Specialising in the assigned project areas, the allocated areas of interest and developing new areas which have the potential to add value to Frontier.
• Completing assigned tasks, development work and projects within agreed timeframes for the specialist team.
• Working with Client Teams and clients in the areas of specialisation covered by the specialist team.
• As requested, working with Associates to develop specialist capabilities in the areas assigned.

Business responsibilities

• Contributing to business planning and marketing as requested by the CEO.
• Conformity with the Frontier Compliance and Risk Management Manual.
• The raising of your personal profile outside and inside Frontier.
• Providing effective and continuous feedback to other staff; and
• Leading by example.

From time to time, you may be required to be involved in special projects that have been determined on a research needs or business needs basis.

Knowledge, skills and experience

The following capabilities are requirements of the position:

• Appropriate graduate and post graduate qualifications.
• Relevant experience within investment consulting or a related field.
• Exemplary interpersonal skills and an ability to work in, and contribute to, a team environment by working co-operatively and effectively in an environment of mutual respect to ensure that:
• All work is of high quality and delivered in a timely manner.
• Other Frontier staff are involved in work where they have expertise or specialisation.
• Support and back up are provided to other staff in relation to work.
• Work is delegated appropriately and effectively to the person most suitably qualified to undertake the work whilst at the same time retaining responsibility for the completion of that work.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and an ability to communicate at all levels including:
• Presenting to clients and staff in a professional and confident manner.
• Communicating with external parties in a professional and appropriate manner.
• Giving and receiving feedback positively, constructively, and consistently.
• Taking appropriate action if it is unlikely that a deadline can be met.
• Excellent organisation skills, an ability to work autonomously, set priorities and work to deadlines.
• A strong desire to take pride in your work and in how you represent yourself and Frontier.
• Ability to work with other people and to encourage learning and development for less experienced staff.
• Strong MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint skills.
• Continually seeking to broaden your experience.
• A willingness to embrace and adapt to a dynamic work environment.
• An ability to work within a commercially sensitive environment, maintain confidentiality and comply with internal policies and procedures.

We'd love to hear from you

If you have the right to live and work in Australia and think this role could be for you, please submit your resume to David May

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