Kim graduated from the University of Natal, South Africa with an LLB degree in 1992. She spent two years as a Public Prosecutor at the Department of Justice before moving to the UK in 1995.  She began her career in financial services at the Investors Compensation Scheme, followed by three years in the Compliance department at Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited. In 2003, she moved to Fidelity International Limited and spent four years in the Institutional Compliance team which she headed from 2005 to 2007. She joined THS in July 2007.  In October 2010 Kim moved to the Caribbean but re-joined THS in March 2012.