Senior Manager, Portfolio Insights

Job Description

Senior Manager, Portfolio Insights & Analytics | CommBank

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at CommBank, located in Australia. The company builds a portfolio insights team that combines data, analytics, and risk expertise to understand the forces shaping Business Banking. The role matters because it turns complex data and external signals into actionable intelligence, supporting better outcomes for customers and the Bank by helping senior leaders understand the credit health of Business Banking portfolios and anticipate risk.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid – Australia

• Team: Provisioning & Portfolio Insights team within Business Banking Risk Management
• Mission: To provide analytics and portfolio intelligence that help senior leaders understand the credit health of Business Banking portfolios and anticipate risk.
• Tech Stack: R, Python, SQL, R Shiny, Tableau, Power BI

What You’ll Actually Do
• Analyse: Analyse the Business Banking credit portfolio to identify trends, anomalies, concentrations, and emerging risk signals, understanding underlying drivers and potential implications.
• Investigate: Investigate emerging risk signals in depth, drawing on credit risk expertise and analytical techniques to test hypotheses and determine where further action may be required.
• Contextualise: Connect portfolio insights with the wider business environment, integrating industry, economic, socio-economic, and geopolitical context into your analysis.
• Report and Visualise: Develop deep, comprehensive portfolio intelligence, SME reporting, intuitive dashboards, and visualisations for senior leaders to view emerging risks and real-time metrics.
• Lead and Influence: Translate complex analysis into clear recommendations and executive-level narratives for senior risk forums, while providing analytical and technical leadership to the team.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Senior Manager in advanced analytics, portfolio insights, commercial credit risk, econometrics, business strategy, or another relevant quantitative discipline.
• Experience: A track record of using data to inform complex business decisions and developing robust, defensible reporting for senior executive audiences. Experience leading complex analytical work, conducting critical data peer reviews, and developing the capability of others.
• Skills: Excellent critical-thinking capability to frame ambiguous problems and wrangle complex data. Ability to connect portfolio data with the wider commercial, economic, and industry environment, translating connections into meaningful business and risk implications. Strong written and verbal communication skills to turn complex analysis into clear narratives and recommendations for senior technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bonus: Experience with R, Python, SQL, R Shiny, Tableau, Power BI, or large-scale enterprise data platforms. Tertiary education in Economics, Econometrics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or another quantitative discipline. Experience within Business Banking, Commercial Banking, Institutional Banking, or portfolio credit risk.