Executive Assistant - Treasury Markets And Commodities Risk

Commonwealth Bank; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is seeking an Executive Assistant to support the GM Treasury Markets, Commodities Risk, and IBM Risk Chief Operating Officer. The role requires managing complex calendars, coordinating meetings, travel, and HR-related tasks within a risk management environment.

Hybrid working is available with 50% in-office presence. You will handle diary management, prepare materials for meetings, coordinate events, and support governance reporting while ensuring timely delivery and

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing complex calendars and inboxes.
• Ability to coordinate with multiple stakeholders across teams.
• Experience arranging domestic and international travel.
• Familiarity with HR policy references and staff changes.

Responsibilities

• Provide efficient administrative and secretarial support, managing complex diaries and inboxes.
• Prepare meeting packs and agendas, track actions and follow-ups.
• Organise events, offsites, and team-building activities; handle catering as needed.
• Advise on HR-related matters with reference to policies and staff changes.
• Maintain team org charts and accurate FTE reporting; support governance documentation.

Skills

Diary management

Stakeholder coordination

Travel planning

HR policy guidance

Proactive communication

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

See yourself in our team:

IB&M Risk Management is responsible for oversight and advice on risk management activities across IB&M. The team develop and deploy the risk frameworks to allow the Group to take conscious exposures to credit, market, operational, compliance and insurance risks within a Board-approved appetite. Risk Management ensures that the Group has appropriate strategies and frameworks in place to assess, manage and report on credit, market, operational, compliance and insurance risks.

We offer hybrid working with a 50% in-office connection rate.

Do work that matters:

As an Executive Assistant in our team you will provide support to GM Treasury Markets and Commodities Risk and IBM Risk Chief Operating Officer.

On any given day you will:

• Provide efficient, professional delivery of administrative, secretarial and business support along with Complex diary and inbox management.
• Assist in meeting preparation, such as any packs or materials that are available for review prior to meetings. Coordinating agendas, minute taking, actions and tracking where required.
• Engagement managing for teams: i.e arranging events/functions/offsites/team building events (including catering where required).
• Coordinating domestic/international travel arrangements.
• Assist largely with complex people HR management: providing advice referencing policies, job changes, whilst ensuring that the decisions made by the business aligns with IBM risk overall people strategy.
• Ensuring FTE reports are managed, updated with correct staffing staying on plan; as well as ensuring team org charts are updated regularly.
• Special Projects: Work closely with Market risk governance manager to manage and upkeep market regulatory matter dashboards utilising risk in site.
• Financial Management: Demonstrated contribution to your manager and team’s productivity plan and ensuring teams are spending within policy and budget, overall minimising risk to the BU. Keep track of expenses and keep EGM office updated with any expenditure.
• Support in active management of annual leave liability reporting for teams; as well as assist with office attendance tracking dashboards as required.
• Consistently assisting with ensuring GM’s meet key due dates by communicating and managing expectations with key stakeholders. As well as consistently Acting with Authority by troubleshooting any issues that may arise before reaching GM.
• Work closely with CRO Office: Co-ordination with governance/ paper submissions of required reporting with the timelines allocated with Board & ELT schedules. Act as an EGM EA delegate when required on occasions supporting our Chief Risk Officer IBM Risk.

We’re interested in hearing from people who have:

• Previous Executive Assistant experience managing complex calendars.
• The ability to manage workflow, priorities, work well under pressure and be flexible.
• High level of pragmatic professionalism - face to face, over the phone and through correspondence.
• Self-motivated individual, who displays a pro-active style, has exceptional attention to detail and an inherent desire to provide excellent customer service.

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