Commonwealth Bank

Executive Manager, Asset Finance Specialist

To empower our people and the communities in which we work and making sustainable, transparent and balanced business decisions.

  • Finance and accounting

  • Full-time

  • Office | Melbourne, VIC, Australia

  • Visa sponsorship · No

  • Senior · A role for someone with advanced knowledge and skills. May involve mentoring, leading others or specialisation. Typically at least 5 years of experience.

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Why Commonwealth Bank

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We really love working here, and we think you will too. Diversity, flexibility and innovation are just some of the reasons why our people come to work every day.

Our team includes around 45,000 people from all walks of life, with different goals, experiences, and perspectives. At CommBank we’ll encourage and support you to be yourself. This is a place where you can feel confident expressing who you really are; where you belong because of your uniqueness.

About the role

The Asset Finance team is a national end to end business that sits within Business Banking spanning across product, operations, specialists and technology. We provide specialist expertise to assist our customers within Commercial Banking, Major Client Group and Regional & Agribusiness with their asset finance needs.

Do Work That Matters The Executive Manager Asset Finance Specialist plays a key role as an expert across asset finance solutions, risk and continuous improvement and will lead our team to meet their potential whilst delivering successful customer outcomes.

Using your ability to coach, mentor and engage both your team and our clients, you will focus on building a strategy for managing and growing new business within Asset Finance. You will work with a strong performing team of Specialists and Bankers to support our customer’s achieve their asset finance needs with oversight across a diverse customer base.  

More specifically, you will:

  • Lead and manage a diverse team of Asset Finance Specialists  
  • Utilise your industry expertise to understand and identify key opportunities within an ever changing commercial landscape, and develop strategies accordingly
  • Drive deal execution with proven skills in origination, structuring and negotiation of complex solutions
  • Coach and mentor a team and support ongoing development, maintain and develop a high performance culture
  • Build strong relationships with clients and support your people’s ability to retain their business through excellent customer service
  • Develop key internal relationships to maximise opportunities to deliver a broad range of financial solutions
  • Continue to build your profile and presence on behalf of CommBank

We want to hear from you if you have:

  • Demonstrated people management – Coach a team to deliver exceptional customer outcomes
  • Exceptional commercial acumen and credit understanding
  • Strong Asset Finance and/or commercial lending product expertise (preferred), banking and financial services solutions knowledge
  • A track record of leading high performing diverse teams including the ability to inspire, motivate and persevere 
  • Leadership capability and a strong risk management focus
  • Engaged and motivated with a strong success orientation
  • A tertiary qualification in Business/Finance and/or Commerce would be highly regarded

This is an outstanding opportunity to build and progress your leadership career in a growing and successful business.

What you'll be responsible for

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    Development of Finance Strategy

    Recommend improvements to optimize and improve financial performance and development of strategic long-term plans

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    Operational and Financial Reporting

    Analyze financial data to prepare timely reports to support business decisions

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    Financial Modeling

    Analyze data to create financial models that support planning and projections

Skills you'll need

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    Collaboration

    Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals

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    Numerical problem solving

    Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems

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    Critical thinking

    Identifies and synthesizes patterns and trends amongst various sources of information to reach a meaningful conclusion, perspective or insight

Meet the team

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Commonwealth Bank

Responsible for a variety of tasks – including accounting, recordkeeping, administrative work, and cash flow. A finance team is also in charge of all duties related to your organization's capital funds, including acquiring and managing these funds.