BOQ Group Graduate Programs & Internships

Applications for our 2024/2025 Summer Internship open now!

BOQ Group is one of Australia’s leading regional banks and provides a genuine alternative for Australian financial services customers and employees. Our purpose is to build social capital through banking, and we will achieve this by remaining optimistic, curious and accountable. Our ambition is to be known as the bold challenger bank; with multi-brands that are digitally enabled with a personal touch.

BOQ Group operates several brands which offer a diverse range of products and services for our personal and business customers including our BOQ Specialist and BOQ finance subsidiaries and our fully owned, independently run Virgin Money Australia and ME Bank brands. Yes, we are in good company!

Our Story

Bank of Queensland (BOQ) began its journey in 1874 as a Building Society. Today we have 165 Owner Managed and Corporate retail branches across Australia, as well as a national network of brokers. You may have also heard of some of our other brands, Virgin Money Australia, ME Bank, BOQ Specialist and BOQ Finance. Yes, we are in good company!

Our Culture - The BOQ Way

At BOQ Group we strive to create a culture that sets us apart. We are a purpose-led organisation that is focused on creating prosperity for our customers, shareholders and our people through our values of empathy, integrity and making a difference. BOQ Group’s inclusion vision is to foster a workspace that values and leverages differences and creates new possibilities, a place where our people feel confident to bring their whole selves to work every day. We embrace difference and believe that our workforce should reflect the customers and communities that we serve. In 2021 BOQ Group was awarded a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality citation.

Our Social Impact

Through our Purpose and Values, we are playing our part to improve Australia’s financial system and to make a positive social and environmental impact. We love to support our people to create meaningful relationships with our community partners to allow vulnerable Australians to prosper. Our community partners include Clontarf Foundation, STARS Foundation, Career Trackers, The Smith Family and Orange Sky.

Your Intern Experience

As an Intern in your penultimate year, you’ll be embedded in a supportive team to build your professional and technical skills over a 12-week summer Internship Program. You will have a support network including your manager, buddy, mentor and learning facilitators who will help you develop your knowledge and interpersonal capabilities through on-the-job and formal training. As a high performing Intern from our BOQ Internship Program, you’ll be first-in-line for graduate opportunities the following year.

BOQ Group Interns will be core team members delivering meaningful work for the customers or business areas they support. You’ll be encouraged to reach your potential and grow your career through diverse and challenging experiences. Through this experience you will grow and foster your technical, interpersonal and leadership capabilities.