The 26-year-old Wellington swimmer, who won the 400m individual medley world title in a depleted field at Doha in 2024 and took world bronze at Gwangju in 2019, will join Finck's programme at the Nunawading Swimming Club in Melbourne with other medley specialists.
Men's medley swimming has been dominated by French sensation Leon Marchand, who trains in Texas under master coach Bob Bowman and swept the 200 and 400 medley golds at his home Paris Olympics.
World record holder Marchand also swept the 200 and 400 world titles for a third time in Singapore this year, following his sweeps in 2022 and 2023.
Bowman, the former coach of Michael Phelps, prepared Carson Foster in his Texas University programme before the American took bronze in the 400m at Paris.
Clareburt said Finck, who worked with top British swimmer James Guy, was looking to develop a school of medley swimmers able to rival the best in the United States.
"We're looking to create a really strong medley training group in Melbourne," Clareburt said in a statement today.
"At the moment there's a really successful medley training group in the U.S. and they're winning all the medals internationally.
"If medley swimmers from Australia and New Zealand want to be on the podium we need to have a similar group in the southern hemisphere and that's what we're looking to set up."
