Tellers

Receive and pay out money. Keep records of money and negotiable instruments involved in a financial institution's various transactions.

• 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.
• Enter customers' transactions into computers to record transactions and issue computer-generated receipts.