Senior Associate, Institutional & Large Corporate Lending

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About the Role

Join our high-performing Wholesale Banking & Financial Markets team where your attention to detail and commitment to exceptional service and delivery will make a real impact. In this role, you’ll work closely with an Associate Director or Director to support the delivery of tailored financial solutions for a portfolio of strong, creditworthy clients—with large complex commercial lending size deals, typically ranging from $50-150m.

You’ll be responsible for preparing complex credit submissions, managing periodic reviews, and ensuring seamless coordination with external service providers to facilitate accurate and timely settlements. Your ability to build strong relationships and deliver outstanding service will be key to driving new business and maintaining client satisfaction.

This is a dynamic opportunity for someone with previous experience in commercial or corporate banking, ideally with exposure to syndicated or club-style transactions across diverse industries. You’ll bring a proven track record in client origination and relationship management, along with strong negotiation skills and a deep understanding of the Australian business banking landscape.

Typical originating transaction types for this portfolio include participation in Syndicated facilities for a diverse range of industries and exposure to a substantial number of funds as administered by large Institutional Fund Managers.


About you

You’re an experienced banking professional with previous experience in commercial and corporate transactions at leading financial institutions. Your background includes working on syndicated and club-style deals across industries such as property, diversified sectors, and healthcare. You’ve built a strong reputation for originating new client relationships and nurturing existing ones, backed by your ability to negotiate and influence with confidence. Your communication skills are clear and effective, and you have a solid grasp of business banking in Australia. Driven by initiative and a can-do attitude, you thrive in diverse environments and enjoy collaborating with others to achieve successful outcomes.

Additionally, your focus on relationship management will extend across the broader loan market, including underwriters, bookrunners, participant banks, and referral partners, helping to strengthen connections and support cross-referrals to product teams. In managing risk, you’ll ensure lending transactions are structured in line with BOQ’s credit policies and maintain robust compliance and portfolio health practices.

Throughout your work, you’ll embody BOQ’s values—Spirited, Optimistic, Curious, Inclusive, Accountable, and Lionhearted—while upholding the Code of Conduct and contributing to the Group’s purpose of building social capital through banking.


About Us

BOQ Group is a truly unique group of challenger brands with a purpose – to provide a genuine alternative to Australian financial services for customers and employees.

Our family of brands (Bank of Queensland (BOQ), ME Bank, Virgin Money Australia, BOQ Specialist), each come with their own defined customer audience and brand personality, but share one goal – to build social capital through banking. That’s creating trust with customers, exploring staff potential and believing that tiny gestures and big ideas can change the world for communities.

BOQ Group’s inclusive vision is to foster a workspace that values and leverages difference and creates new possibilities, a place where our people feel confident to bring their best selves to work every day. We embrace difference and believe that our workforce should reflect the customers and communities that we serve.

Since 2021, BOQ Group is recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).

In 2023, we successfully implemented an innovative Reconciliation Plan, driving positive change and promoting inclusivity across BOQ Group.


Our Perks

At BOQ Group, we are passionate about creating an exceptional work environment that nurtures both your professional and personal growth. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to enhance your well-being, provide financial security, and foster a sense of community and inclusion. Here are just some of the fantastic perks you can enjoy as part of our team:

Flexible working arrangement - Balance your work and personal life with ease.
Discounted financial products - Enjoy exclusive rates on our financial services across the Group.
Salary sacrificing options - Maximise your take-home pay with our salary packaging options.
Paid parental leave with no minimum requirements - Spend quality time with your new family member without any worries.
Purchase additional annual leave - Need more time off? You can buy extra leave days.
Discounted private health insurance plan - Take care of your health with our special rates.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - Access confidential support for personal and professional challenges for you and your family
Access to employee network groups - Connect with peers through our First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, Multicultural, Gender, Early Careers, and accessibility groups.
Pride in Diversity membership: We are proud members of Pride in Diversity and actively participate in the Australian Workplace Equality Index.
We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. Join us and be part of a company that truly cares about its people and community!


How to Apply

To apply for this role with #boqbusiness, please follow the links or apply via our Careers Page.

BOQ Group is committed to diversity and an inclusive workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People are encouraged to apply.

We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, gender and expressions, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities. When you apply, you are welcome to tell us the pronouns you use and please let us know any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

If you are successful for a role with BOQ Group, it is a condition of employment that background screening is completed to ensure that the Bank complies with its obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act. These checks may include, but are not limited to: identity, verification, reference checks, criminal background checks, immigration checks, verification of academic qualifications, bankruptcy checks.

Please no agency applications.

Job Reference: BOQ05113