Associate Business Management

• Gain exposure to managing a large and diverse institutional portfolio

• Opportunities for career growth and development

• Dynamic and collaborative work environment based in Sydney CBD

See yourself in our team:

Institutional Banking and Markets (IB&M) is responsible for managing the Group’s relationships with major corporate and government clients and institutional investors, and provides a full range of capital raising, transactional and risk management products and services. We play a key role in reimagining banking and leading in Australia’s transition.

The Corporate Client Coverage (CCC) team within CBA’s Institutional Banking & Markets (IB&M) business, leads banking relationship management to corporate clients across a range of sectors.  This includes clients in the retail, industrial, transport, consumer, media & technology, health, real estate and infrastructure sectors.  The team is geographically diverse with offices across Australia and internationally and consistently achieves excellent results in internal workplace satisfaction surveys.

This team is for you if you have a passion for providing consistent, high -quality client engagement; take a genuine interest in understanding clients’ capital and business needs; and enjoy partnering with stakeholders in a dynamic environment. The Business Management function within the CCC team ensures adherence to policy, governance, and compliance frameworks.  It also provides portfolio management and operational support to CCC bankers, in collaboration with other internal stakeholders. 

Your Impact and Contribution

As an Associate - Business Management, you’ll be supporting a high performing team, including those in our offshore offices. Working closely with the Business Manager and focussing on the portfolio management activities for Corporate Coverage Clients, you will support the delivery of streamlined and simplified processes.

This is an exciting and highly visible role enabling the right candidate to develop relationships with stakeholders at various seniority levels across teams and geographies.

Your responsibilities will be wide-ranging and include:

• Contributing to driving the CCC strategy forward

• Supporting the execution of good data practices with Bankers to ensure data integrity and accuracy throughout the portfolio lifecycle

• Performing portfolio hygiene activities such as breach management, annual reviews, supporting Know-Your- Customer processes, and other reporting and liaise with Bankers and stakeholders where required

• Working to simplify processes, drive process efficiency, manage risk and improve data accuracy

• Actively contributing to the team to ensure a positive team culture and support a safe and diverse workplace for all team members, clients and other partners

We’re interested in hearing from you:

This is a hands-on role and requires a highly motivated detail-oriented self-starter and adaptable team player with a passion for solving complex problems and driving meaningful change. Some of the key traits that such a person would have are:

• Excellent interpersonal skills, collaboration and negotiation skills and ability to build strong rapport with work colleagues and a problem-solving mindset

• Attention to detail and good problem-solving skills to spot inefficiencies or errors in processes and a desire to drive change and deliver improvement across the business

• Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment and juggle multiple workstreams demonstrating strong project management

• Strong presentation and communication skills (oral and written) to drive change

• Open-mindedness: They should be willing to challenge assumptions and be open to new ideas and perspectives.

• Knowledge of CBA or other bank systems will be highly regarded but not essential, as will experience in Business, Corporate or Institutional banking.

This opportunity will give you exposure to a wide range of stakeholders at all levels of the business and the Bank, whilst being part of a team that is focused, smart, hardworking and passionate about our shared vision to create the very best experience for our customers.

As the successful applicant you'll be rewarded with a career path within Institutional Banking and Markets business that offers a competitive market salary, annual performance incentives, and a flexible working environment.

Advertising End Date: 24/02/2025