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Kym Bowles

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Head of Product - Lending, Cards & Insurance at Defence Bank
📍 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Kym Bowles is a strategic banking leader who recently concluded an incredible 30-year career at Defence Bank. She has extensive experience managing a $3. 7B portfolio across lending, cards, and insurance, and has led major enterprise-wide platform transformations. She holds a Diploma of Business from Swinburne University of Technology.

Passionate about simplifying complexity and continuous learning, she has recently completed courses on leveraging AI for productivity and creative problem-solving. She is also a public speaker, having appeared on podcasts to explain complex home buying processes and schemes for the military community.

After three decades of dedicated service and growth at Defence Bank, she has recently moved on to her next chapter.

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Experience
30 Years
Current Role
Head of Product - Lending, Cards & Insurance
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Lending Transformation
Led the implementation of a new loan origination platform at Defence Bank, reducing loan processing times by 25% and boosting straight-through approvals.
AI for Productivity
Demonstrates a keen interest in emerging technology by recently completing courses on "Custom GPTs for Creative Problem Solving" and "How to Boost Your Productivity with AI Tools".
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Career

Work history

1-2019
Head of Product - Lending, Cards & Insurance
Defence Bank
9-2018 - 1-2019
Head of Business Services
Defence Bank
4-2017 - 9-2018
Manager - Operational Initiatives & Projects
Defence Bank
5-2009 - 4-2017
Manager - Home Loans
Defence Bank
4-2008 - 4-2009
Parental Leave
Defence Bank
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Education
5-2020 - 12-2020
Professional Banking Fundamentals
FINSIA
10-2014
Diploma of Finance and Mortgage Broking Management
Institute of Strategic Management
2-2007 - 10-2007
Diploma of Business
Swinburne University of Technology
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