General Manager

**About the Role**
Here at BOQ Group we have been busy working behind the scenes building out our Purpose, our Values, and our Strategic Pillars to help us achieve an exciting future-state through the transformation of digital banking.

We are strengthening, simplifying, and digitising, whilst ensuring our foundations are in place. With foundation comes strength, and we are building strong and stable teams to work across our multi-branded business. There is so much opportunity to contribute to our overarching frameworks, contribute to our Risk uplift and be paramount in supporting our transformation into a digital bank.

Reporting to our fabulous Chief Financial officer, this role is a trusted advisor to the BOQ Group Executive Committee and Board and is responsible for developing strong relationships with key buy side and sell side participants, proxy advisors and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ratings agencies.

Working closely with internal and external stakeholders, this role will drive and lead BOQ Group’s ESG strategy including delivery of environmental targets, assessment of key risks and supporting the wider group with key ESG focus areas.

Some of the exciting and challenging stuff you’ll be involved with are:

- Managing two-way communication between the investment community and BOQ Group.
- Develop and execute investor target and communications strategy.
- Preparation of disclosures including investor presentations, ASX releases, Annual Report and Sustainability Report.
- Management of share registry including capital raising activities, share register optimisation and dividend process.
- Monitor market developments, ensuring compliance with continuous disclosure obligations and analysis of competitor results and analyst response.

We are a customer centric business, and with this being one of our key strategic pillars, this role will also have our customers at the heart of it It is your time to shine in a role that is earmarked as an important capability focus area, being key to achieving our priority of becoming a cloud-based digital bank through digitising BOQ Group, whilst continuing to build social capital through a focus on key sustainability issues.

**About you**
As an experienced Senior leader in Investor Relations, you’ll join us with extensive experience in Investor Relations with the ability to prioritise multiple issues and stakeholders, whilst working in a dynamic, cross-functional, and collaborative environment to achieve Group outcomes. Yes - you live and breathe all things Investor Relations and join us with a passion, and experience, of partnering with the business to solve strategic and complex problems, makes decisions that impact the future of BOQ Group

We operate in a highly regulated, ever-changing environment so we are seeking a strategic thinker who thrives on change and can also problem solve on the fly. Collaboration and partnership come naturally to you - you aren’t afraid to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in, participating, and promoting cooperative working relationships across the organisation.

Additional experience that could come in handy in this role are:

- Banking & Finance experience
- Knowledge of Equity markets.
- Financial metrics and equity valuation models.
- Deep knowledge of key ESG issues for the banking industry.
- A strong commercial acumen.

Working for us is fun and fast-paced, and we are seeking top talent to take us where we want to go. BOQ Group people are easy to spot. They're smart, energetic, full of ideas and passionate about what they do. If this sounds like you and you're looking to join a multi-brand transforming the face of digital banking, then we would love to chat

**About Us**
BOQ Group is a truly unique group of challenger brands (Bank of Queensland, ME, Virgin Money to name a few) providing a genuine alternative to Australian financial services, customers, and employees. Our purpose and our customer are at the heart of what we do - building social capital through banking. Our true multi-brand proposition means our staff get to experience working across multiple brands all with their unique differences, whilst working together to transform digital banking across Australia.

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 was awarded a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality citation.

**Our Benefits**
- Flexible working arrangements
- Discounted financial products
- Salary sacrificing options
- Paid parental leave with no minimum
- Paid volunteer days
- Purchase annual leave
- Discounted private health insurance plan
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 5 employee diversity n