Australian trustee, wealth management, and philanthropy services for families and institutions
Equity Trustees is a 135-year-old public company providing trustee, asset management, and philanthropic services across Australia. The hiring and project mix reveals a heavily compliance-driven operation: finance and legal roles dominate the open positions, while active workstreams center on regulatory response, fund remediation, and Workday/Adaptive Planning implementations. Pain points cluster around unit pricing errors, regulatory notice handling, and control improvements—typical of a trust services operator managing legacy fund structures and tightening oversight.
Equity Trustees operates as Australia's specialist trustee company, established by Victorian Parliament in 1888. The firm serves personal and corporate clients across trustee and executor services, superannuation administration, managed fund custody, and philanthropic advisory. The product suite includes retail and wholesale fund management, estate planning, and responsible entity services for managed funds. Listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (EQT) with offices across Australia, the company operates across 201–500 employees and maintains headquarters in Melbourne, Victoria.
Core stack includes Microsoft Office, Excel, Salesforce, Pardot, and Mailchimp. The company is actively rolling out Workday, Adaptive Planning, and Prism — suggesting modernization of HR, financial planning, and reporting infrastructure.
Major initiatives include Workday and Adaptive Planning implementations, fund remediation programs, process and control improvements, and expansion of philanthropic granting programs (including the Smartygrants online platform).
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