Data Governance Lead

About Us

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.

Your New Role

In this 10-month contract as Data Governance Lead, 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.

Key Responsibilities Include

• 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

What we’re looking for

You are a pragmatic, delivery-focused data governance professional who can design practical frameworks, bring stakeholders together and turn policy into measurable adoption. You bring a strong risk mindset, clear communication style and the confidence to work across business and technology teams to lift data governance maturity in a regulated environment.

If you have the following, we’d love to hear from you

• 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