2026/27 CommBank Summer Intern Program: Risk Management

Get hands-on with real projects in CommBank’s 10-week Summer Intern Program. Learn, grow, and discover where your career can take you.  

Do work that matters

When you join the Risk Management Summer Intern Program, you'll work alongside incredibly talented risk professionals, who are committed to supporting your career. You'll be working on programs of work with large impacts across the business, customers and communities. This includes current risk practice, focusing on emerging risk and industry trends.

Risk Management has its very own Risk Academy, investing in you from the moment you arrive, through:

• An onboarding experience that’s personalised to you and your career, including a clear view of the skill requirements for your role, and how to develop them
• Tailored learning pathways providing self-directed learning opportunities to support your personal and career goals
• Providing an opportunity to develop those all-important soft skills – thought leadership and coaching, problem-solving and decision making, effective business and report writing, honing those meeting and presentation skills
• Access to an incredibly talented and experienced pool of mentors with a growth mindset
• Helping disrupt financial crime across CommBank and the broader community, protecting our customers and the bank through implementing compliance obligations & regulatory change
• projects that navigate the highs and lows of the credit cycle in credit risk (which impacts some of our most vulnerable customers)
• Strategically explore the mechanics of operational risk that looks at everything from people to customers to third parties, suppliers and vendors, technology and transactions and all the risks in between
• You have a STEM-related degree majoring in disciplines such as data science; mathematics; computer science; cyber or environmental science; or a business degree focusing on accounting; finance or econometrics. Or a degree within the humanities area such as criminology; financial crime or legal
• You’re a naturally curious, analytical and strategic thinker
• You’re passionate about delivering better risk and customer outcomes
• A Permanent Resident of Australia (please note, this does not include bridging visas while awaiting permanent residency or 820 visa holders), or Citizen of Australia or New Zealand at the time of your application
• In your penultimate year of your overall university degree
• Achieving a minimum credit average across your degree
• Sydney based, or willing to relocate to Sydney for the program at your own expense

See yourself in our team

You’ll have the opportunity to immerse yourself in Risk Management and contribute to: 

Risk Management engages with every area across CommBank which provides an enormous springboard for opportunities after the program!

We’re interested in hearing from you if:

At CommBank, we’re committed to your development, career growth and training. We encourage you to apply for our program no matter what your degree. Your skills may align with one of our roles.

If this sounds like you, and you are:

Apply now for our 2027 Risk Management Summer Intern Program and help shape the future of banking!

We have a long history of supporting flexible working in its many forms so you can live your best life and do your best work. Most of our teams are in one of our office locations for at least 50% of the month while working from home the rest of the time. Speak to us about how this might work in the team you're joining. 

Check out https://www.commbank.com.au/earlycareers to find out more about our pathways.