Summer Business Banking Internship

About the role

Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey in the world of banking? Join us for our Summer Internship Program at BOQ Group! As a Business Banking Intern, you’ll gain experience in a variety of future ready areas where your career will thrive. Over 12 weeks from Tuesday 24th November 2026 – 12th February 2027, you’ll engage in projects designed to challenge you, while delivering work that helps BOQ Group be the bank customers choose.

As a Business Banking intern, you’ll see how we back small business at BOQ. You’ll gain exposure to relationship management, business development and financial analysis that sees us support businesses across Australia to get started, grow and thrive. Equal parts customer experience, problem solving and collaboration, this fast-paced stream will help you consider a career with impact.

Our intern program offers you the chance to collaborate with top professionals and other interns across the Group and contribute to initiatives that build social capital through banking. There is potential for ongoing employment, with high conversion to permanent placements at the end of the 12-week program. We’re eager to connect with individuals who are passionate about building their future with BOQ Group in our Business Banking division.

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.

In 2023, we successfully implemented an innovative Reconciliation Plan, driving positive change and promoting inclusivity across BOQ Group.

Our perks

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

To apply for this role, follow the links.

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.