Tellers

Key skills

A typical day

• •Balance currency, coin, and checks in cash drawers at ends of shifts and calculate daily transactions, using computers, calculators, or adding machines.
• •Receive checks and cash for deposit, verify amounts, and check accuracy of deposit slips.
• •Monitor bank vaults to ensure cash balances are correct.
• •Cash checks and pay out money after verifying that signatures are correct, that written and numerical amounts agree, and that accounts have sufficient funds.
• •Count currency, coins, and checks received, by hand or using currency-counting machine, to prepare them for deposit or shipment to branch banks or the Federal Reserve Bank.

Fields of study

Any field