Video Teller - Onsite

Essential Credit Union; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Essential Credit Union in Baton Rouge seeks a Teller with strong cash handling and customer service skills. You will process daily transactions, verify accuracy, and assist members with inquiries using the ITM system.

The role emphasizes accuracy, confidentiality, and a friendly, professional demeanor. Responsibilities include posting transactions, handling checks and cash, balancing drawers, and supporting other departments as needed.

Qualifications

• Cash handling and customer service experience is preferred.
• Familiarity with ITM and bank procedures.

Responsibilities

• Process financial transactions accurately for checking, savings, and loan payments.
• Verify and post transactions, confirm details with customers to minimize errors.
• Issue traveler’s checks and money orders and verify cash amounts.
• Assist customers with inquiries and refer complex needs to appropriate departments.
• Balance cash drawer daily and maintain accuracy of records.
• Maintain a professional appearance and assist other departments as needed.

Skills

Cash handling

Customer service

Tools

ITM system

Job description

Responsible for accurately processing financial transactions and being an effective source of information for customers: using ITM. Provides friendly, professional, confidential and effective assistance to customers and company associates assuring a positive experience and minimizing wait time. Typically has more than 1 year of experience as a Teller and may provide backup for account opening platform.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

Description

Demonstrate efficiency with financial transactions for checking, savings and borrowing customers: receives funds, posts transactions and pays out funds as requested. Verbally confirm intended transactions with customer to assure needs are met and minimize redoing.

Issues Traveler's Checks and money orders, receives currency for coin and verifies amounts, processes the redemption of bonds, cashes checks according to written procedures.

Research, troubleshoot and resolve customer and internal inquiries regarding policies, practices and products. Demonstrates empathy for customer's needs and refers members to appropriate departments when a financial need is discovered.

Receives loan payments and savings deposits from customer, addresses inquiries on accounts, records amounts and dates of payments and other significant information, checks customer calculations and validates checks and/or counts cash payments.

Balances cash drawer daily to assure accuracy in transactions and notifies supervisor regarding any outages. Appropriately applying policies.

Create and maintain a clean, neat, pleasant work environment by maintaining a professional look (i.e. dress, posture, attitude, etc.), positive outlook and behavior toward customers and co-workers.

Assist other departments and branches with transactions as needed, provide support for the department and branch managers in fulfilling customer requests and merchant verifications.

Must comply with all company policies and procedures, applicable laws and regulations, including but not limited to, the Bank Secrecy Act, the Patriot Act, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Knowledge and Skills

Experience

Cash handling and customer service experience is strongly preferred. Demonstrates personal commitment to continuously develop technical skills needed to conduct customer transactions.

ADA Requirements

Physical Requirements

Perform primarily sedentary work with limited physical exertion and regularly lifting cash box of up to 10 lbs. and coin bags up to 30 lbs on occasion. Must be capable of climbing / descending stairs in emergency situation. Must be able to operate routine office equipment including telephone, copier, facsimile, and calculator.Must be able to stand for long periods of time. Must be able to routinely perform work on computer for an average of 6-8 hours per day, when necessary. Must be able to work extended hours whenever required or requested by management. Must be capable of regular, reliable and timely attendance.

Working Conditions

Must be able to routinely perform work indoors in climate-controlled shared work area with minimal noise.

Mental and/or Emotional Requirements

Must be able to perform job functions independently or with limited supervision and work effectively either on own or as part of a team. Must be able to read and carry out various written instructions and follow oral instructions. Must be able to speak clearly and deliver information in a logical and understandable sequence. Must be able to use basic math skills and spell accurately up to a highschool graduate level. Must be capable of dealing calmly and professionally with numerous different personalities from diverse cultures at various levels within and outside of the organization and demonstrate highest levels of customer service and discretion when dealing with the public. Must be able to perform responsibilities with composure under the stress of deadlines / requirements for extreme accuracy and quality and/or fast pace. Must be able to effectively handle multiple, simultaneous, and changing priorities. Must be capable of exercising highest level of discretion on both internal and external confidential matters.