Associate, Global Compliance Monitoring

**Associate, Global Compliance Monitoring**
- **18 Months Contract**:

- **Showcase your skills in risk assessment and financial analysis**:

- **Sydney CBD based role**:

- **We support flexible working and are happy to discuss what this means for you**

**About our Business**

Institutional Banking and Markets (IB&M) is responsible for managing the Group’s relationships with major corporate and government clients and institutional investors, and provides a full range of capital raising, transactional and risk management products and services.

The division also performs an important internal role for the Group by providing equities, markets, lending and transaction banking execution capabilities to other CBA business units that allows them to capture opportunities with business customers.

Capital Structuring (CapS) is made up of a number of customer centric product specialists who partner with relationship bankers to originate, structure, execute and monitor lending & leasing facilities. We provide the core end-to-end product and pricing infrastructure supported by a disciplined approach to governance that enables us to manage financial and non-financial portfolio risks. The team includes Credit Portfolio Management, Structured Asset Finance, Securitisation, Private Equity & Structured Finance, Global Lending Product & Transformation, and Line 1 Operational Risk & Control.

**See yourself in our team**:
The Global Compliance Monitoring team sits under the Global Lending Product & Transformation function and is responsible to monitor undertaking obligation requirements for Institutional clients within IB&M Client Solutions business.

The team’s remit is to ensure that the Bank and the client deliver on transactional obligations within set service agreements.

**Your impact & contribution**:
Reporting into the Senior Associate, you’ll work with a team of professionals and business partners within CBA to service IB&M’s Institutional Loan and Lease portfolio across the six industry eco-systems (ie: Natural Resources, Future Cities etc.).

The key role will see you manage compliance requirements - spanning across financial statement analysis, Insurance and Valuation reviews and assessments, contribute to process improvements and maintaining operational risk outcomes by focussing on data integrity and effective reporting.

Further responsibilities will include:

- Maintain effective client records within the Deal Management System
- Ensure diarised undertakings are followed up and assessed in accordance with bank policy and defined SLAs
- Direct liaison with clients in relation to enquires relating to their compliance requirements under their Facility Agreements with Commonwealth Bank
- Monitor client’s adherence to the provision of compliance reporting on time and in adherence to individual covenant obligations
- Maintain effective relationships with internal customers and stakeholders - including those in international locations
- Complete trend analysis on the Institutional Lending and Leasing clients financial position and performance and make appropriate recommendations to Risk Management at an individual client level or industry level
- Initiate the breach management process providing summary of analysis or events to Risk to assist in their assessment.
- Identify and take accountability for delivering continuous improvement opportunities across the team and stakeholders

**We’re interested in hearing from people who have**:

- An undergraduate degree in Business, Finance or Economics
- Experience working with Institutional lending and leasing products and clients with exposure to financial statements analysis, credit decisions, or risk recommendations
- Demonstrated experience handling issues related to operational risk, process or business management.
- Strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to form relationships with external and internal customers and become a trusted partner to the business
- A CAN DO attitude. Ability to collaborate with team members and contribute to a dynamic working environment, but also work effectively in an autonomous capacity
- A strong customer service mentality and proactive approach to your day-to-day activities

**What we offer**

The Global Compliance Monitoring team will offer outstanding career and professional development opportunities with significant investment being made to ensure team members have the opportunity to thrive in this dynamic working environment.

Team members will enjoy the opportunity to gain exposure to six industry eco-systems as well as being multi-skilled across different loan specialisations, such as Project Finance, Leveraged Finance, Structured Asset Finance and Funds Finance

Roles within the Global Compliance Monitoring team provide several opportunities in terms of next steps, including the opportunity to move into Risk Management, a Product Specialisation, Client Solutions, or simply