Senior Teller (St. Petersburg)

Seacoast Bank•Saint Petersburg, FL

8h•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Teller position at Seacoast Bank in St. Petersburg, FL, involves essential duties focused on relationship building with customers and performing critical operational functions. Key responsibilities include preparing for customer interactions, building rapport, understanding financial goals, explaining bank products and services, and generating referrals. Operationally, the role requires processing transactions, ensuring adherence to AML/BSA requirements, audit procedures, and security protocols, balancing cash drawers, and resolving customer concerns. The position emphasizes teamwork, community involvement, embracing new technology, and maintaining proficiency in consumer deposit and lending products, as well as customer-facing technology.

Requirements

High School diploma or equivalent required.
Minimum of 12 months cash handling experience required.
Flexible schedule required with ability to work during hours of operations, including weekends and occasional non-bank operational hours.
Demonstrate excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
Able to work independently and exercise a high degree of initiative.
PC Proficiency in Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, and Smartphone devices as well as Microsoft Office Suite software.

Nice To Haves

Minimum of 12 months previous experience in retail sales and/or financial services experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Exhibit consistent relationship building including, but not limited to: Prepare for various customer interactions
Build rapport
Effectively utilize and document open and closed-ended questions to understand current and future financial goals of customers
Match customer needs to Seacoast Bank products and services
Confidently and proficiently explain Seacoast Bank products and services to customers
Proven ability to create and enhance relationships based on customer needs
Ask for referrals from new and existing customers
Exhibit good listening skills and speak clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations.
Respond promptly to customer needs and requests for service.
Quickly seek out appropriate people in more complex financial matters.
Able to balance business needs with customer requests while managing potential risk to bank.
Embrace new technology and remain up to date on industry changes to create an open environment that fosters idea generation and innovation.
Participate in community, charitable or civic events.
Exhibit strong work ethics and teamwork, collaborating with other associates within the branch and across the organization.
Display Proficient knowledge of consumer deposit and lending products and processes.
Exhibit proficiency in outbound calling process.
Demonstrate proficiency in identifying referral opportunities with internal business partners.
Participate in presentations regarding banking products/services through networking events.
Display proficiency in Customer facing technology with the ability to discuss with and enroll customers in self-service products/processes.
Develop an introductory knowledge of small business deposit products and processes including account maintenance.
Process checks, cash and the sale of negotiable instrument transactions adhering to the banks current policies and procedures.
Ensure branch adherence to AML/BSA requirements (Currency Transaction Reports, Suspect Activity Form, etc.), audit procedures, operational procedures, dual control, security, Business Continuity, and all other regulated banking requirements to protect associates, clients, and bank assets.
Assists in remediating audit / scorecard / QC deficiencies.
Proactively helps to resolve customer concerns in a timely, professional and positive manner, escalating issues to the next level of authority as needed.
Balance cash drawer daily and monitors own work for accuracy.
Follow instructions and responds to management direction to help resolve more difficult customer objections, and solves problems in a timely and positive manner to retain the customer relationship.
Adhere to Seacoast Bank’s Code of Conduct.
Follow all safety and security procedures.
Oversee day to day operations of the branch (including vault and ATM responsibilities).
Maintain and update documents for all audit and compliance requirements.