Our workplace and you

The Commonwealth Bank (the Group) is an exciting, challenging and rewarding place to work. We offer personal and professional development opportunities at all levels in an inclusive and supportive working environment.

As a valued staff member, you’ll be offered a range of employee benefits and we’ll work with you to help you develop and build your career.

Employee benefits

The Group offers a range of competitive employee benefits.

Career development

To stay in business, we believe it's critical to develop the professional skills of our people.

Performance Feedback and Review

Our Performance Feedback and Review (PF&R) framework offers regular, structured feedback so you know exactly how you are progressing. We are passionate about our people’s development and we continually strive to improve our extensive training and development programs.

Supporting professional development

We support employees wishing to enhance their professional development through tertiary study assistance and professional memberships by providing financial assistance.

Employee Share Acquisition Plan

We recognise the contribution our people make to the success of our organisation by offering free share grants – 75 per cent of our employees are shareholders.

Occupational Health and Safety

We are committed to fulfilling corporate and legal occupational health and safety responsibilities by implementing and maintaining policies, procedures and practices to provide a healthy and safe place of work.

Life balance and flexible work options

Balancing work and home life can sometimes be a challenge. We are committed to providing an flexible work environment where our people feel engaged, passionate and valued.

A healthy approach

We offer our employees a range of programs to help them stay healthy.

Care options

The Group aims to provide support to employees who have caring responsibilities for children and other family members.

Policies and Procedures

To create a fair, safe and rewarding working environment, we have a number of workplace policies and procedures, to which we expect our people to adhere to.

Statement of Professional Practice

Our employees observe the Bank's Statement of Professional Practice ensuring professionalism, honesty, commonsense and fairness in their dealings with customers.