Lending Specialist

**About the Role**
**Lending Specialist - Canberra**:
**Empower customers and build your future with BOQ Group.**

As a Lending Specialist at BOQ Group, you’ll be at the heart of helping customers achieve one of life’s biggest milestones — buying a new home.

You’ll work closely with our Canberra team to guide both new and existing customers through the lending journey, ensuring every step is seamless and supportive.

Your role will be instrumental in driving lending growth for the branch, while also building strong relationships with local community groups and partners to enhance BOQ’s presence in the Canberra region.

You’ll thrive in a collaborative environment where training, mentoring, and a clear career pathway are all part of the package.
**About you**
As one of BOQ Groups trusted Home Lending Specialists, you will be a successful and motivated individual with a passion for helping customers with their lending needs and who consistently delivers an outstanding experience for our customers.

You’re a motivated and customer-focused lending professional who thrives on delivering exceptional service.

With a strong background in residential lending, you bring a natural ability to build trust and provide tailored solutions that meet each customer’s unique needs.

You enjoy business development, networking, and being active in the community.

Most importantly, you’re passionate about helping people and being part of a team that values inclusion, growth, and making a real difference.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career in banking, meet new people and join a motivated team of professionals.
**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 Benefits**
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**

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 wi