Customer Service Representative

BMO•Hamilton, ON

11d•Onsite

About The Position

The Customer Service Representative at BMO is responsible for delivering exceptional service to customers and prospects, providing advice and guidance on financial solutions, and collaborating with BMO partners to achieve business objectives. This role involves identifying customer needs, initiating referrals to colleagues, and supporting banking service requests, including handling transactions and customer inquiries. The representative welcomes customers, offers advice on digital and self-serve options, and reviews customer profiles to identify opportunities for everyday banking plans and credit card needs. They are expected to escalate complex situations to managers, contribute to branch business results and customer experience, and support operational activities such as inventory management, service requests, and cash reconciliation. The position requires executing routine tasks within service level agreements, acting as a collaborative team member, and integrating marketing promotions into customer conversations. The representative must organize work for accuracy, personalize customer experiences, and contribute to ongoing improvements. The role may involve working at multiple branches or through various channels with a flexible schedule. Adherence to risk and compliance processes, safeguarding customer assets, maintaining privacy, and upholding ethical requirements are paramount. This includes staying current with the financial marketplace, legal and regulatory environments, maintaining product knowledge, and reporting suspicious activities. The representative completes standardized tasks under supervision, performs initial problem-solving, and applies BMO's Risk Management Framework.

Requirements

No prior experience necessary.
High-level knowledge of personal, commercial and partner offers, and how each can best serve customers’ individual needs.
Confident and experienced in the use of social media, tablets, smart phones, online tools, and applications.
Highly skilled at helping people who don’t find digital applications intuitive to gain confidence in how to use them and to understand their benefits.
Projects a professional presence.
Basic knowledge of specialized sales and business banking solutions to refer to specialists.
Passionate commitment to helping customers.
A focus on delivering a personal experience to customers.
Resourceful self-starter with courage and confidence to approach customers.
Readiness to collaborate and work in different capacities as part of a team.
Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to build rapport and connections with customers.
An aptitude for listening, solving problems, and responding flexibly and creatively to new challenges.
Basic knowledge learned on the job.
Verbal & written communication skills - Basic (in business environment).
Organization skills - Basic (in business environment).
Collaboration & team skills - Basic (in business environment).

Nice To Haves

Post-secondary degree or certification in related field of study is desirable.

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.
Identifies customer needs and initiates referrals to BMO colleagues.
Supports customer requests for banking services, including handling transactions and customer inquiries.
Welcomes customers warmly and meets their banking service and transactional needs with seamless execution.
Offers advice and guidance on available digital and self-serve options with the goal of making it easy, simple, and fast to bank with BMO.
Reviews customer profiles and engages customers in a needs-based conversation to identify potential opportunities and address everyday banking plans and credit card needs.
Escalates complex or unresolved customer situations to managers as required.
Contributes to meeting branch business results and the customer experience.
Supports operational activities (e.g. inventory management, escalated service requests, following up on customer applications, filing, opening and closing activities).
Manages, loads, and reconciles cash transactions between treasury and various branch units (e.g. CRU).
Executes routine tasks (e.g. service requests, transactions, queries, etc.) within relevant service level agreements.
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 standardized tasks under supervision.
Performs initial problem solving within given rules/limits & escalates when required.
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.