See yourself in our team:
The purpose of the Business Banking (BB) Governance team is to enable BB leadership to make informed, high-quality, risk/reward decisions in order to achieve operational and strategic goals. We do this through providing advice; support in the optimisation and effective management of non-financial risks; providing mechanisms for monitoring and reporting to senior management, ensuring prompt and appropriate escalation; introducing efficiency and consistency through automation and standardisation; and promoting ways to create ongoing challenge.
Do work that matters:
You'll be responsible for the end-to-end management and delivery of the BB Risk Committees and Forums as the secretariat, engaging numerous senior stakeholders across the business to ensure high-quality risk decisions are achieved. You will also be tasked with driving consistency, simplicity and efficiency into the governance framework and processes.
On any given day you will:
* Ensure the BB Risk Committees and Forum operate effectively to provide senior management with information to oversee and manage operational, compliance and credit risk. Providing insightful and transparent outcomes to make risk-based decisions.
* Be accountable for the end-to-end management of the BB Risk Committees and Sub-Committees, including agenda setting; pack and attendees management; and documenting minutes and actions.
* Support the Committee Chair, members and business areas to ensure that high-quality, relevant and consistent information is provided; and facilitating decision-making by promoting an integrated view of risk management across BB.
* Apply critical thinking to BB governance and oversight framework to determine opportunities for improvement, to enable consistency and gain efficiencies whilst delivering best in class governance practices.
* Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across BB and influencing the continued enhancement of risk maturity.
* Lead and support preparing Committee and Board submissions.
* Work in an agile manner and across disciplines to facilitate rapid response to emerging risks.
Your experience looks like:
* Strong technical skills and knowledge in Operational Risk and Compliance.
* Solid experience in a Governance and/or related Line 1 Risk role/s.
* Demonstrated experience leading a team.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills.
* Ability to think critically, analytically and strategically.
* Ability to engage with and influence a large and varied stakeholder group.
* Strong organisational, planning, time management and project management skills.
At CommBank, we support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work in the role you're interested in.
If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We're keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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Advertising End Date: 18/02/2026