Stepping Into Internship Program - Position DescriptionThe Australian Network on Disability’s Stepping Into program is a paid internship scheme that matches talented university students with disability with roles in leading Australian businesses.

Position Title

Commonwealth Bank (CBA) - Business Banking – Business Corporate Banking Intern

Location

Sydney

Position Duration

10 weeks, full time

Commencing 23rd November

Position Overview

About Business & Private Banking

Business and Private Banking (BPB) manages relationships with Commonwealth Bank’s business banking customers, providing a wide range of financial services and solutions across all businesses. We also service our personal and institutional online trading customers, and provide service, advice and opportunities to our high-net-worth personal customers through Commonwealth Private.

About Business, Corporate & Private Banking

Business & Corporate Banking is the relationship-focused arm of BPB, a division of the Commonwealth Bank. We connect and partner with businesses to grow, improve and safeguard their financial wellbeing. Our segment spans the nation’s most innovative, dynamic, specialist and diverse sectors – everything from start-ups to mature companies. We manage relationships with all types of businesses, from small and middle-sized all the way up to larger corporates turning over up to $500 million.

Commonwealth Private (CP) services the personal banking and wealth management needs of Australia’s high-net-worth (HNW) and ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) individuals.

Do Work That Matters

Small Business & Corporate Banking comprises of the following streams: Small Business Banking and Business Corporate Banking (BCB). We work with customers from a diverse range of industries and backgrounds whose sizes are either small to middle size businesses to large corporates with a turnover of >$10m.

We are looking for 2020-21 Summer Interns to join our BCB team in Sydney.

Level 3, 80 Clarence Street, Sydney NSW 2000 (02) 8270 9200 www.and.org.au

This unique opportunity allows you to work alongside our customers to address their complex financial needs.

We’re Looking For You

Our customers are at the core of what we do! So bringing your exceptional interpersonal and communication skills to work is essential. You’ll be an innovative thinker, finding the best solutions for our clients. We’re looking for people to leverage their experience in customer service to build strong relationships with clients to help them grow, improve and safeguard their financial wellbeing!

You don’t need to be a finance wiz to excel in our business — you’ll join the program with essential soft skills and we’ll teach you all the technical parts on the job.

We Invest in Your Future

The program commences on the 23 November 2020, where you’ll join as a full-time employee over the summer. Here you’ll get a taste of what it’s like working at CommBank through formal learning events and workplace-based experiential learning, to help you decide if we’re the right fit for you.

The program centres around 4 key elements:

Shine: Contribute from day one by working on real projects that impact our business and our customers, within Australia’s largest bank.

Develop: Participate in market-leading training to develop your technical and soft skills. This will help with the transition to full-time work from university over the summer, and ensure you excel in your immediate and future roles.

Network: Build networks and friendships through unparalleled access to senior leaders, project leads and program sponsors, enhancing your personal and business profile.

Contribute: Give back to the community through intern initiatives, driving positive change across our organisation and improving the wellbeing of our intern cohort.

What We Look For

The BPB Graduate Program will allow you to discover and unlock your potential by offering diverse opportunities and tailored experiences. Whether you’re passionate about banking, regional and agribusiness, the digital landscape or private wealth, or simply want to immerse yourself in securing and enhancing the financial wellbeing of our people, business and communities, a role in our team could be for you. You’ll need to be keen to develop business acumen, challenge yourself, meet new people and develop professional and customer relationships.

We’re looking for:

Critical thinkers: Graduates who can analytically and skilfully conceptualise to synthesise information.

Adaptive attitude: People who can discover and integrate new knowledge with current thinking to commercialise new products, services and solutions.

Resilient minds: Stay cool, calm and collected during change and uncertainty.

Emotional intelligence: We value socially aware, informed, productive, rational and inquisitive peers.

Curiosity: The use of a growth and learning mindset to explore possibilities with intense curiosity is crucial for success.

Tech cred: The capability and capacity to learn and work in an online- and digitally enabled environment, while embracing new technologies that are fit for purpose.

Read more about Business Banking on CBA’s website.

Ideal Degree/Discipline

Graduates from all disciplines are welcome to apply for the BPB Graduate Program. Successful grads have come from a range of backgrounds, including finance, commerce, accounting, economics, engineering and IT, as well as digitally focused disciplines.

Eligibility Requirements

You are an Australian/New Zealand citizen or Australian permanent resident at the time of your application (essential)

In your penultimate year (second last year) of your university degree (ie. you must be graduating your current degree in either Sem 1 or Sem 2 of 2021), or if you are doing a double degree, you must be in your penultimate year of your overall studies (essential)

Achieving at least a credit average across your university degree (essential)

Identify as having disability

Candidates may be required to undergo a background check security clearance

Apply Here

To be considered for the Stepping Into internship with CBA, you must first submit an application to www.tfaforms.com/420924

If you are shortlisted for an internship with CBA, the following process applies:

a) You will be required to submit an application directly to CBA through their online platform

Include resume, transcript (min 6.5 GPA), proof of residency, and 500 word motivational statement (AND recommends you use the full 500 words to demonstrate your relevant skills to the specific stream you’re applying for with CBA)

If you need any adjustments to the recrtuiment process, include these in your application for personalised support

b) Once you apply online, every applicant will automatically be sent 3 online assessments to complete (psychometric, numerical and inductive reasoning)

You must complete these within 48 hours of receiving the email

They should not take more that 75 minutes

c) If you pass the online assessments, you will be invited to a digital interview (7 questions and one longer written question)

You must complete this within 48 hours of receiving the email

d) If you pass the digital interview, you will be invited to a virtual assessment centre (a virtual case study and a virtual face-to-face interview)

The virtual case study will include a number of components, virtual activity submissions, reading time and a written component

The interview will be held by 2 panellists and go for 1 hour. Questions will be behavioural and stream-specific so be sure to do plenty of research into the specific business area

Read more about the recruitment process and key dates here.

Contact the AND Programs Team at applications@and.org.au or 1300 363 645 for further information.

Please be aware that all Stepping Into internships are paid placements. The employing organisation will pay the intern’s pro rata salary for the internship period (including superannuation) at a rate commensurate with the duties performed and abiding by Fair Work standards.