Operations Teller

A typical day tends to involve daily cash settlement, ATM and vault operations, exception research on differences and out-of-balance items, fraud reporting, and supporting branch tellers when complex transactions arise. You'll often catch errors before they become regulatory issues — a teller difference that needs investigation, a CTR filing deadline, a missing endorsement chain. Documentation discipline is the heart of the work.

Coordination involves branch management, branch tellers, regional operations partners, internal audit, and sometimes Bank Secrecy Act officers. The role lives in compliance gray areas more than people expect — knowing when to escalate versus resolve in-branch is judgment built over time. Audit windows and month-end can compress work significantly.

People who tend to thrive here are detail-obsessed, calm during audits, and energized by procedural problem-solving. If you need customer-facing variety or strategic decision-making, the procedural rhythm can feel narrow. If you find satisfaction in being the person whose work makes the front-line teller team functional and protects the branch from operational risk, the role tends to feel quietly essential.