Group Risk Internship

About the Role

Over six months, starting in late October 2025, you'll engage in projects designed to challenge you while delivering work that helps BOQ Group be the bank customers choose. We'll work around your university schedule to ensure you can balance your studies and internship commitments.

In this program, you'll gain hands-on, on-the-job experience delivering work within our Group Risk division, contributing to initiatives that build social capital through banking. You'll also have the opportunity to collaborate with top professionals and fellow interns across the Group, gaining exposure to real-world challenges and making a genuine impact.

Internship Streams

The intern streams we will likely offer as part of this program include:

Group Risk Management

This stream is ideal for all-rounders and strong communicators interested in project and business management experience.

Key activities include:

• Supporting operational change and strategic initiatives
• Contributing to the Credit Operating Model project
• Assisting with Maps Collection and Creation
• Driving activities with a strong achievement focus and growth mindset

Market Risk – Credit Models & Insights

Suitable for university students studying STEM, Actuarial Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, or IT.

Key activities include:

• Risk analytics and dashboard development using tools such as R, Python, SAS, PowerBI, and Tableau
• Quantitative modelling and credit risk analysis
• Model monitoring, provisioning, and stress testing reporting
• Data discovery and quality review
• Process automation and AI engineering

About you

You are a penultimate or ultimate year university student and eager to have a career with impact. We're interested in hearing from students from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. In line with our SOCIAL core values, the skills and behaviours we love you to demonstrate are:

• Spirited: Taking initiative and a strong bias for action
• Optimistic: A growth mindset and love for learning
• Curious: Thinking broadly and creatively to see connections and opportunities
• Inclusive: Collaborative style that builds a shared understanding
• Accountable: Taking responsibility for yourself and the work you're apart of
• Lionhearted: Customer orientated

Here at BOQ Group we are a multi-brand organisation, each dedicated to providing distinctive banking solutions and exceptional experiences to our customers. If you're eager to contribute to shaping the future of banking and are driven by a desire to create meaningful change, we want to hear from you

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

• Flexible working arrangements
• Discounted financial products
• Salary sacrificing options
• Paid parental leave with no minimum
• Purchase annual leave
• Discounted private health insurance plan
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Access to employee network groups focused on First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, Multicultural, Gender, Early Careers and accessibility
• BOQ Group is a member of Pride in Diversity and a participating organisation in the Australian Workplace Equality Index

How to Apply

To apply for this role at #boqgroup, 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: BOQ05231