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Commonwealth Bank

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4.3
  • 1,000 - 50,000 employees

Risk Management Graduate Program (Feb 2026)

Location details

On-site

  • Australia

    Australia

    • New South Wales

      Sydney

Remote

Sydney

  • Australia

    Australia

    Remote work

    • New South Wales

      Sydney

Location

Sydney, Sydney

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Opportunity details

  • Opportunity typeGraduate Job or Program
  • SalaryAUD 70,000 - 80,000 / Year
  • Number of vacancies1-8 vacancies
  • Application open dateApply by 21 Mar 2025
  • Start dateStart date 16 Feb 2026
  • Our people work flexibly. Enjoy a mix of team time in our offices, balanced with working from home (hoodies optional).
  • You’ll experience a world-class rotational Graduate Program, tailored to the career pathway you choose and designed to support you as you launch your career.
  • We have great work perks (think gym discounts and reward points to put towards your next holiday). And we’re going to have loads of fun together along the way!

Do work that matters

When you join the Risk Management Graduate Program, you'll work alongside incredibly talented risk professionals, who are committed to supporting your career. You'll be working on programs of work with large impacts across the business, customers and communities. This includes current risk practice, focusing on emerging risk and industry trends.

Risk Management has its very own Risk Academy, investing in you from the moment you arrive, through:

  • An onboarding experience that’s personalised to you and your career, including a clear view of the skill requirements for your role, and how to develop them;
  • Tailored technical learning pathways providing self-directed learning opportunities to support your personal and career goals;
  • Providing an opportunity to develop those all-important soft skills – thought leadership and coaching, problem-solving and decision making, effective business and report writing, honing those meeting and presentation skills;
  • Access to an incredibly talented and experienced pool of mentors with a growth mindset.

See yourself in our team

You’ll have three rotations across the 18-month program where you’ll immerse yourself in different areas of Risk Management across the business. You’ll also: 

  • Help to disrupt financial crime across CommBank and the broader community, protecting our customers and the bank through implementing compliance obligations & regulatory change;
  • Work on projects that navigate the highs and lows of the credit cycle in credit risk (which impacts some of our most vulnerable customers);
  • Strategically explore the mechanics of operational risk that looks at everything from people to customers to third parties, suppliers and vendors, technology and transactions and all the risks in between.

Risk Management engages with every area across CommBank which provides an enormous springboard for roll-off opportunities! 

Check out commbank.com.au/graduate to find out more. 

We’re interested in hearing from you if:

  • You have a STEM-related degree majoring in disciplines such as data science; mathematics; computer science; cyber or environmental science; or a business degree focusing on accounting; finance or econometrics. Or a degree within the humanities area such as criminology; financial crime or legal;
  • You’re a naturally curious, analytical and strategic thinker;
  • You’re passionate about delivering better risk and customer outcomes.

At CommBank, we’re committed to your development, career growth and training. We encourage you to apply for our program no matter what your degree. Your skills may align with one of our roles. 

If this sounds like you, and you’re - 

  • An Australian/NZ citizen or Australian permanent resident at the time of your application;
  • In the final year of your overall university degree, or have completed your final subject within the last 24 months; and
  • Achieving at least a credit average across your overall degree;

Work rights

The opportunity is available to applicants in any of the following categories.

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Australia
Australian CitizenAustralian Permanent Resident
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New Zealand Citizen

Qualifications & other requirements

You should have or be completing the following to apply for this opportunity.

Degree or Certificate
Qualification level
Qualification level
Bachelor or higher
Study field
Study field (any)

Hiring criteria

  • Experience requirementNo experience required
  • Working rights
    New Zealand Citizen
  • Study fields
    Business & Management
  • Degree typesBachelor or higher
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Reviews

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Graduate
Sydney
5 months ago

Client meetings, speaking with the frontline team regarding client files, administrative work

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Graduate
Melbourne
5 months ago

It will vary depending upon what department/business unit you are in. However in my circumstance I am an Graduate/Analyst; my daily task involve morning emails, attending to applications and strategy papers, lots of meetings, some longer one rife with information or short ones to provide updates. Then after a lunch with the team it is back into credit writing. Then finishing off the day with emails. There is always time for a coffee run with the team and some good quality banter.

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Graduate
Sydney
5 months ago

My role involves balancing business and customer needs in innovative and strategic ways. Day to day, I work on projects that involve uplifting certain aspects of the CBA App. I also work towards my graduate development goals to ensure I make the most out of this experience.

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About the employer

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Commonwealth Bank

Rating

4.3

Number of employees

1,000 - 50,000 employees

Industries

Banking & Financial Services

A brighter beginning for your career.

Pros and cons of working at Commonwealth Bank

Pros

  • Work-life balance and culture.

  • The vast amount of opportunities in the field of technology can help you upskill and keep motivated.

  • The people at CBA are extremely welcoming and talented.

  • Flexible working style and arrangements.

  • Clear investment in the technology area. This supports graduates in this area significantly.

Cons

    • As the company has the head office in Sydney, most of the teams are located there. If you are based in other cities, you may not have anyone in your team around you.

    • There is a level of competitiveness I find specifically in the Grad program cohort.

    • Limited career progression.

    • The over-importance of networking. You may not get as far as being 100% your authentic self.

    • With CBA being such a large organization, it can sometimes be difficult to navigate the ecosystem and find the right person who can help.