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About the Role

In this 10-month contract, you will help uplift data governance across Australian Ethical by establishing a practical framework, clear ownership model, and the policies, standards, and controls needed to improve data quality, accountability, and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Establish and embed data governance policies, standards, controls, and practical ways of working across the business.
• Define data ownership, stewardship, and accountability across key business domains, ensuring roles and responsibilities are clear.
• Identify Critical Data Elements and support risk assessments with Data Owners to determine what data is most important to the organisation.
• Set data quality standards and monitoring processes to improve the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of key data sets.
• Design issue management processes to support timely detection, escalation, remediation, and ongoing monitoring of data issues.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and external vendors to understand data flows, risks, and business requirements.
• Support governance forums and working groups to drive adoption, accountability, and alignment with CPG 235 expectations.
• Deliver training to help teams understand and apply data governance policies, standards, and controls in day-to-day practice.

Requirements

• Minimum 4+ years' relevant data or information governance experience, including hands-on framework design and implementation.
• Financial services experience, ideally across superannuation, banking, or funds management.
• Strong experience designing and embedding data governance policies, standards, and controls across core data governance domains in a regulated environment.
• Excellent understanding of CPG 235 and how it applies to data management, controls, and risk.
• Experience defining data ownership, stewardship, Critical Data Elements, data quality, and lineage.
• Knowledge of data retention, archiving, and destruction practices.
• Strong internal and external stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence across business, technology, and vendor groups.
• Tertiary background in Data Information Management or a related discipline.
• Alignment with and demonstration of our values – Authenticity, Action, Connection, Curiosity and Empathy.

Skills

• Data governance framework design
• Data ownership and stewardship definition
• Data quality standards
• Issue management processes
• Stakeholder engagement
• CPG 235 understanding
• Data retention practices

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Contract
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 4+ years relevant experience

Education Level

• Tertiary background in Data Information Management or a related discipline

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary, including short-term and long-term incentives including access to an Employee Share Plan

Benefits

• Short-term and long-term incentives
• Employee Share Plan
• Hybrid work arrangements
• Wellbeing program
• 4 extra days of leave per year
• Birthday leave
• Purpose aligned volunteer days
• 20 days paid annual leave
• Additional 3 paid days of annual leave between Christmas and New Year

About the Company

• Australian Ethical is one of Australia’s fastest-growing super fund and ethical investment managers.
• We are ASX-listed with over $13.5 billion in funds under management and offer a selection of award-winning managed funds and superannuation products.
• Our purpose is to invest for a better world, and we have been pioneers in this space for almost 40 years.
• For us, investing has two aims – generating solid financial returns and a positive impact for people, planet, and animals.
• At Australian Ethical, we prove that money can be a force for good.
• We do this by staying true to our purpose, which is embedded throughout our organisation and drives our everyday activities as a business, investor, brand, employer, and corporate citizen.
• We’re a registered B Corp and fully committed to an inclusive, equitable and forward-thinking workplace culture.

Equal Opportunity

• At Australian Ethical we embrace diversity in our people and thinking.
• We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer and never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital or disability status.