What this occupation involves

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

  • 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

Labour market — Australia

Source: Jobs and Skills Australia. New Zealand does not publish per-occupation shortage ratings or projections.

No shortage National rating
By state & territory
ACT
No shortage
NSW
No shortage
NT
No shortage
QLD
No shortage
SA
No shortage
TAS
No shortage
VIC
No shortage
WA
No shortage
National rating history
No shortage Moderate Shortage
Employment projections
Job growth · Jobs and Skills Australia

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