AddressYour Business
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) Group is an Australian multinational bank with businesses across New Zealand, Asia, the United States and the United Kingdom. We provide a variety of financial services including retail, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment, and broking services. CBA employs over 45,000 people, serves over 15 million personal and small business customers, and has more than 800,000 shareholders.
The Human Resources (HR) team plays a key role in supporting the Group’s strategy by working with our client teams to attract and build talent, develop leaders, drive capability and performance, create a diverse culture, and enhance productivity.
The Group People Services (GPS) team provides the Group with HR advisory and operational services across Workplace Relations, Employee Benefits, Global Mobility, Health, Safety & Wellbeing, People & Payroll Services, Workforce Analytics, HR Direct, and Workers’ Compensation.
Your Team
The Industrial Relations Team is responsible for end to end management of industrial relations including developing the strategy and implementing the Group’s enterprise agreement negotiations, monitoring the external IR environment, competitor IR environment. The broader team is also responsible for:
- EA compliance and execution
- Provision of advice relating to EA interpretation and IR legislative changes
- Contract management
- Group policy
- Onboarding
- Grading
The purpose of this role is to support the IR function by providing advice and guidance on IR matters including EA interpretation, ensuring our compliance with the EA and our legal obligations and provide support on IR project initiatives. The role reports to the Executive Manager, Industrial Relations.
Your Responsibilities
You will be expected to perform and deliver the following in a manner consistent with CBA’s Values Expectations.
- Deliver operational Industrial Relations activities including supporting the business with IR queries and providing IR or HR advice in a large multifaceted organisation, understanding some decisions will impact >30,000 employees
- Facilitate presentations/workshops to different levels of employees across the Group on IR matters
- Monitoring and reporting on our competitors and the external IR environment, keeping across changes in legislation and case law as it applies to the Group’s IR framework and EA obligations; formulating and executing action plans to address emerging needs and changes.
- Lead IR strategic projects with technical support, analytical /data modelling, administrative support, planning, stakeholder management and organisational change as required.
- Engage with internal stakeholders to manage relationships and expectations while supporting organisational change
- Contribute to the resolution of industrial disputes and grievances in the workplace
- Draft clear, concise and compliant policies, procedures and guidelines
- Author system build requirements to ensure that our systems remain compliant with applicable law/legislation/policy.
Your Skills
- Experience in the delivery of operational Industrial Relations activities including identifying compliance risks and supporting the business with IR queries and providing IR, policy or HR advice in a large multifaceted organisation
- Well-developed problem solving ability
- Strong interpersonal, influencing and communication skills, including the ability to distil complex policy into simple, easy to understand messages
- Solid data analysis skills, to source and manipulate data to identify trends, issues and corrective actions
- Data modelling to input to strategic IR plans and decisions, with impact to >30,000 employees/ multi-million dollar outcomes.
- Solid knowledge of the Australian workplace relations and industrial relations environment and employment contracts
- Risk Mindset –All CommBank employees are expected to proactively identify and understand, openly discuss and act on current and future risks.
Highly Desirable:
- Experience and understanding of the data in Workday HR system and GV payroll system
- Data modelling experience to input to strategic IR plans and decisions
This is a 12 Month Contract role.
If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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