Barry Whitehead

Experience

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  State Bank Victoria

  Mar 1986 - Oct 1992

  Various roles - Managed Funds Administration

  Roles covered management of teams performing portfolio administration, fund accounting and unit pricing functions.Prior to working in the Managed Funds Administration divison, time was spent in the Treasury Divison and the Branch network.

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  IOOF Holdings Ltd

  Nov 1992 - Feb 1998

  Various roles

  Roles held covered management of teams performing investment and portfolio administration, fund accounting and unit pricing functions.

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  Goldman Sachs

  Feb 1998 - Apr 2016

  This role covered a period of substantial change during the lead up to, the time of and subsequent to, the full acquisition of the Goldman Sachs JBWere Group by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Key Responsibilities:- Manage all responsibilities associated with the Company Secretarial department supporting the Australian and New Zealand business including preparation of board and shareholder meeting agendas, coordination of meetings and drafting minutes and resolutions, ensuring all statutory notices are lodged with ASIC and / or other regulators and maintaining corporate registers and files. - Advise the various boards (including one that includes non-executive directors) and business units on governance matters.- Lead the Company Secretarial team in Group wide and department level projects. Show less This was a new role created in recognition of the need to have resources dedicated to the execution of new product development initiatives within the Asset Management Division. Key Responsibilities:- Prepare new product proposals for approval by the New Business Committee. - Preparation of all necessary documentation to support new products initiatives such as constitutions, compliance plans, commercial agreements with service providers and prepare product disclosure statements in accordance with established due diligence processes.- Perform due diligence reviews on required service providers.- Design unit pricing structures to support products with performance based fees. - Provide ongoing technical support to the business in relation to products as well as conduct training sessions on new products and unit pricing mechanisms. Show less This was a new role created in recognition of the heightened operational risk experienced by the Asset Management business due to substantial business growth, the need to focus on improving the business’ operational standards and to assist in the Division’s resource allocations and planning activities. Key Responsibilities:- Design and implement operational risk reduction activities.- Design and implement processes to improve the operational performance of the business.- Monitor the financial positon of the Asset Management Division.- Assist with negotiating mandate agreements. Show less This role was one with various and diverse responsibilities across traditional ‘back office’ function and covered a period of time where substantial growth in the business occurred and where direct reports increased from six to twenty five.Key Responsibilities:- Manage the portfolio administration, fund accounting, unit pricing, unit registry and client servicing functions for the range of managed funds offered by the asset management business. - Manage the portfolio administration and quantitative reporting to clients under mandate. - Assist with negotiating mandate agreements. - Management of the day to day compliance activities of the business. - Formulate budgets for the asset management division and monitor and comment on actual to budget deviations. - Assist with product development initiatives and systems development projects. Show less

  • Senior Company Secretary, Goldman Sachs Australia

    Dec 2007 - Apr 2016

  • Head of Product Development & Support, Goldman Sachs Asset Management Australia

    Jun 2005 - Dec 2007

  • Head of Business Management & Risk, Goldman Sachs Asset Management Australia

    Feb 2002 - Jun 2005

  • Head of Administration

    Feb 1998 - Feb 2002
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  Yarra Capital Management

  Sept 2016 - Sept 2017

  Company Secretary | Manager, Compliance & Operational Risk

  Key Responsibilities of this role include:- All traditional functions of a company secretary including advising on governance matters for all entities within the Yarra Capital Management Group and being the interaction point between the business and directors (two Group boards include external / non-executive directors). - Design of the operational risk and compliance framework for the business.- Executing the compliance monitoring program and working with external auditors on their audit of our compliance activities.- Identifying, reviewing, analysing and documenting incidents within the business and conducting assessments of whether the incident is a breach of regulatory obligations and if so is reportable to ASIC. Also consider and recommend enhanced controls where an incident has indicated a control weakness.- Act as Chair of the Compliance and Operational Risk Committee. Show less

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  VicTrack

  Sept 2017 - now

  Company Secretary

  This role was a newly established role on the split of the previous General Counsel & Company Secretary into two distinct roles.Key responsibilities:- Managing the production and quality of materials for the Board and Board Committee meetings and maintaining official records of meetings- Maintaining the VicTrack Group’s corporate records- Advising the Board and business on governance matters- Oversight of the VicTrack's Corporate Governance Framework and executing corporate governance processes and systems Show less