Fidante are one of Australia’s largest active investors, offering compelling strategies across equities, fixed income, and alternative assets, via partnerships with leading investment teams. Fidante is a multi-boutique investment manager, wholly owned by Challenger Limited an ASX-listed investment management firm managing $123.9 billion in assets (as at 30 June 2025).
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Manager, Investment Compliance – Fidante Help Shape the Future Investment Compliance Environment at FidanteFidante is entering a significant new chapter, with the implementation of Charles River and State Street Alpha reshaping how investment teams, operations and service providers work together.
As part of this transformation, we're building the team that will support, evolve and ultimately own the new operating environment long after implementation is complete.
This is an opportunity to join at a pivotal time, influence how investment compliance operates in the future and work closely with stakeholders across a sophisticated funds management business.
About the role
As Manager, Investment Compliance, you'll lead investment compliance oversight and reporting across a diverse range of portfolios and investment strategies, ensuring activities remain aligned to client mandates, regulatory obligations and internal governance requirements.
Working closely with Portfolio Managers, Investment Operations, Company Secretariat and external service providers, you'll provide practical compliance guidance while helping build a robust and scalable compliance and reporting framework for the future.
Key responsibilities
Oversee pre- and post-trade compliance monitoring activities
Manage compliance breaches, incidents and remediation activities
Act as the subject matter expert for investment compliance rules and monitoring requirements
Translate mandates and investment guidelines into effective compliance monitoring rules
Oversee compliance rule governance, testing and ongoing effectiveness within Charles River
Manage relationships with State Street and other service providers
Support onboarding of new clients, investment mandates and products
Carry out substantial shareholder monitoring and support disclosure obligations
Deliver reporting and insights to stakeholders, committees and governance forums
What we're looking for
We're looking for someone with deep investment compliance experience who can combine strong technical expertise with sound judgement and the ability to influence stakeholders across a complex funds management environment.
You'll bring:
Significant investment compliance experience gained within funds management, asset management, investment risk or a closely related environment
Strong working knowledge of Charles River and investment compliance monitoring systems, including compliance rule governance and oversight
Experience interpreting investment mandates, client guidelines and regulatory obligations and translating them into practical compliance frameworks
Strong investment compliance and governance expertise, including breach management, monitoring programmes and control oversight
Experience working with outsourced service providers and operating models, ideally within an investment management environment
The ability to build credibility and influence Portfolio Managers, Investment Operations and other key stakeholders
Strong judgement, analytical capability and a practical approach to managing compliance risk
Exceptional written communication, reporting and stakeholder engagement skills
Why join?
This is an opportunity to do more than operate an existing framework. You'll help shape how investment compliance is delivered in a newly established operating environment while working alongside experienced investment professionals across the Fidante business
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Job type:
PermanentPosting Close Date :
06/09/2026Skills Required
- Significant investment compliance experience within funds management, asset management, investment risk, or a closely related environment
- Strong working knowledge of Charles River and investment compliance monitoring systems
- Experience with compliance rule governance and oversight
- Experience interpreting investment mandates, client guidelines, and regulatory obligations
- Experience translating mandates and regulatory obligations into practical compliance frameworks
- Strong investment compliance and governance expertise
- Experience managing compliance breaches, monitoring programs, and control oversight
- Experience working with outsourced service providers and operating models
- Strong stakeholder influence and relationship-building skills
- Strong judgment and analytical capability
- Exceptional written communication, reporting, and stakeholder engagement skills
What We Do
Challenger Life is Australia’s largest provider of annuities and provides regular income to thousands of customers. We’re a multi-award-winning Life Company and have $23 billion in assets under management (as at 30 June 2023). Challenger is focused on providing customers with financial security for retirement. We do this by offering investment strategies that exhibit consistently superior performance, and by helping customers in retirement with safe and reliable income streams. As Australia’s largest annuity provider, we provide regular income payments to thousands of Australian retirees. Our lifetime annuities protect retirees from the risk of running out of money late in life. The regular retirement incomes we pay are backed by a high-quality investment portfolio, including fixed income and commercial property investments. These investments generate regular and predictable investment income, which we use to fund retirement incomes paid to our customers. For our social media disclaimer statement, visit: http://www.challenger.com.au/Disclaimer
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