About the Role
Reporting to our Head of Employee Relations & WHS, you’ll support the delivery of our employee relations strategy and continue to ensure that all employee issues are managed in a fair and equitable manner. We’ll need you to provide strategic and operational ER/IR leadership and we’ll certainly lean on your expertise regarding legislation, policies, and procedures.
You’ll be working closely with some great internal teams including, people and culture business partners and our business unit leaders across the enterprise. Given the nature of the work, you will also deal extensively with the Union, external tribunals and other external stakeholders.
Some of the key responsibilities for this role include:
1. Lead enterprise bargaining processes on behalf of the business.
2. Manage union relationships to minimise disputes and ensuring a stable industrial environment.
3. Negotiate with and influence senior management, staff and external stakeholders towards best practice employment relations practice and solutions.
4. Provide written and oral advice to management regarding key policy, employment legislation issues and emerging employment relations trends.
5. Effectively lead and/or manage investigations or processes in response to discrimination, harassment & bullying complaints through end-to-end case management.
6. Provide advocacy, or lead support, for contested matters in the Fair Work Commission and Anti-Discrimination Tribunals.
7. Proactively review P&C policy and process and identify areas of improvement and develop and implement training to address any deficits.
About you
The BOQ group is going through a very exciting period of growth and transformation and that includes our employee relations space. We are looking for an accomplished ER specialist, someone who can engage with senior stakeholders whilst also providing guidance and support to the rest of the P&C team.
Your stakeholder engagement and management skills will be one the main drivers for success in this role as will be your commerciality. You audience will be diverse, will have competing priorities and bring with them unique situations for you to work through. We’ll need you to demonstrate critical thinking, resilience and problem solving to achieve successful outcomes.
Some of the other key experience we will be looking for includes:
8. Demonstrated experience in leading enterprise agreement negotiations, including preparing for, negotiating and obtaining approval of enterprise agreements;
9. Legally qualified and experienced in employment law, potentially holding a practicing certificate (ideal, but not essential)
10. Demonstrated understanding of contemporary industrial and employee relations including knowledge of the recent legislation amendments.
11. Experience in preparing for, negotiating and appearing in person at the FWC and other Courts and Tribunals.
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.
Since, BOQ Group is recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).
In, we successfully implemented an innovative Reconciliation Plan, driving positive change and promoting inclusivity across BOQ Group.
Our Benefits
12. Flexible working arrangements
13. Discounted financial products
14. Salary sacrificing options
15. Paid parental leave with no minimum
16. Purchase annual leave
17. Discounted private health insurance plan
18. Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
19. Access to employee network groups focused on First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, Multicultural, Gender, Early Careers and accessibility
20. BOQ Group is a member of Pride in Diversity and a participating organization in the Australian Workplace Equality Index