Retail Relationship Banker

bmo; Joliet (IL); On-site; USD 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

BMO Harris Bank in Joliet, IL is hiring a Relationship Banker to deliver exceptional service, assess customer needs, and guide clients to suitable financial solutions across personal banking, lending, and investments.

You will work with branch teammates and partners, engage customers proactively, and promote digital and self-serve options while ensuring compliance and accurate data entry in all lending processes.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of relevant experience; post-secondary degree desirable.
• Experience in financial services is an asset.
• Strong knowledge of personal and small business banking needs.
• Confident with social media, tablets, and online tools.

Responsibilities

• Delivers exceptional service to customers; identifies needs and provides appropriate financial guidance.
• Leads proactive engagements with existing customers and prospects to grow loyalty.
• Assesses needs and recommends tailored banking solutions (personal, lending, home financing, small business).
• Promotes digital/self-serve options to make banking easy and fast.
• Supports customer transactions and process accuracy while complying with policies.

Skills

Customer service

Sales oriented

Needs-based advice

Regulatory compliance

Education

Post-secondary degree

Tools

CRM systems

Online banking platforms

Job description

Application Deadline: 11/29/2026

Address: 801 Essington Road

Job Family Group: Retail Banking Sales & Service

Responsibilities

• Delivers exceptional service to BMO customers and prospects. Identifies customer needs and provides advice and guidance regarding financial solutions that are in the best interests of customers. Works collaboratively within the branch and through various channels with BMO partners to deliver the desired customer experience and achieve overall business objectives.
• Takes a lead in proactively engaging with existing customers and prospects by providing needs-based assessments to grow loyalty and identify immediate / future opportunities.
• Engages customers to complete needs assessments that identify financial solutions and preferred banking channels while recommending tailored solutions addressing both sales and service needs (e.g. everyday banking, retail investments, lending solutions, home financing (including business-for-self applications)), and small business solutions).
• Offers clients advice and guidance on available digital and self-serve options with the goal of making banking easy, simple, and fast.
• Supports customer transactions needs based on customer traffic.
• Engages customers to grow BMO’s business by reaching out, generating appointments, and building new relationships within the community.
• Addresses questions and resolves issues raised through consumer credit audits and quality checks to ensure accurate data entry and lending application recommendations in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and lending policies and processes.
• Applies the risk management framework to the portfolio to protect the Bank’s assets and maintain the quality of the lending portfolio in compliance with requirements for the lending process and established yield, quality, diversification, and risk guidelines.
• Makes credit recommendations for personal lending transactions, including home financing, in accordance with sound credit granting principles and with the Bank’s policies and procedures.
• Acts as a key member of a collaborative and versatile branch and market team.
• Probes to understand customer personal banking and credit card needs and integrates marketing promotions and programs into customer conversations to provide strategic advice.
• Organizes work information to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Takes the initiative to find creative approaches that make each customer’s experience feel personal.
• Looks for ways to contribute to the ongoing improvement of the overall customer experience.
• Contributes to business results and the overall experience delivered.
• May work at multiple branches or through various channels based on market needs; work schedule may differ from week to week in terms of days worked, hours, and shifts.
• Follows through on risk and compliance processes and policies to ensure we safeguard our customers’ assets, maintain their privacy, and act in their best interest.
• Keeps current with the wider financial services marketplace, the legal and regulatory environment, and our commitment to uphold the highest ethical requirements of our industry.
• Maintains current knowledge of personal banking products, practices, and trends and integrates into customer conversations.
• Identifies and reports suspicious patterns of activity that are suspected to be related to money laundering.
• Complies with legal and regulatory requirements for the jurisdiction.
• Protects the Bank’s assets in compliance with all regulatory, legal, and ethical requirements.
• Completes complex & diverse tasks within given rules/limits and may include handling escalations from other employees.
• Analyzes issues and determines next steps.
• Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.
• Take measured risks while protecting the bank by applying our Risk Management Framework in the execution of your role, in line with our Risk Culture and within our approved Risk Appetite, making sound and risk informed decisions that align to business strategy, protect assets, and adhere to applicable policy documents (Frameworks, Policies, Standards, Procedures and Supporting documents), laws and regulations.

Qualifications

• Typically between 2 - 3 years of relevant experience and post-secondary degree in related field of study desirable or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Canada only: Registration to sell investment products completed - as appropriate for the jurisdiction.
• Appropriate lending qualifications and designations.
• Working knowledge of personal and small business customer needs and solutions.
• Working knowledge of retail investments and lending products.
• Experience in financial services is an asset.
• Confident and experienced in the use of social media, tablets, Smart phones, online tools, and applications.
• Experience in a consultative customer service or sales role, with a drive to deliver a personal customer experience.
• Passionate commitment to helping our customers.
• Drive to deliver a personal cus