Bank Worker

Overview

Receives deposits and pays out money in a financial or commercial institution, keeps records of transactions, issues receipts and cashes cheques.

Skills

Most occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with the qualifications and experience outlined below. AQF Certificate II or III (ANZSCO Skill Level 4)

Tasks

  • greeting customers, identifying their needs and answering customer inquiries
  • ensuring customers' forms are filled in correctly and checking customers' identification
  • accepting cash and cheques deposited by customers, verifying records and receipts, and crediting customers' accounts
  • paying money to customers according to advice slips, cheques and negotiable documents, and debiting customers' accounts
  • providing change, cashing cheques and recording transactions
  • opening and closing accounts for customers
  • balancing cash and advising supervisors of cash position and discrepancies
  • explaining and promoting bank services to customers and referring them to appropriate financial services

Source: 1220.0 - ANZSCO - Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations, First Edition.
Note: The tasks associated with the occupation are to be used as guidance only. The tasks listing may include tasks associated with the grouping/category to which the occupation belongs.