Position Title: Customer Contact Center – Inbound Associate

Reports To: Customer Contact Center Inbound Manager or Team Leader - Inbound

Department: Customer Contact Center

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Purpose: Five Star Bank is seeking motivated candidates to fulfill the position of Customer Contact Center – Inbound Associate. This position will act as first line of contact and trusted consultant to our customers. The Customer Contact Center – Inbound Associate will work directly with our customers to meet their needs and provide the best customer service.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Degree of Supervision Received: Moderate

Degree of Supervision Given: NA

Essential Functions:

• Support all products and services in our retail and commercial lines of business via inbound and outbound customer service calls.
• Answer customer inquiries concerning bank operations, regulations, transaction processing, electronic services, marketing, and promotional activities
• Identify customer needs and suggest appropriate products and services to meet their needs.
• Utilize technology to support and troubleshoot online services, gather information, and track customer interactions.
• Use critical thinking to remain solution-focused.
• Identify opportunities to help our customers and grow our business.
• Follow bank policies, procedures, all applicable laws, regulations and compliance.
• Flexibility to work various shifts including evenings, weekends, and holidays.
• Demonstrate the standards and principles of the Five Star Bank experience in every interaction with internal and external customers, associates, and stakeholders. Incorporate the high-performance behaviors of teamwork, leading by example, and service in every facet of work.
• This job description is not exhaustive. The [Job Title] may be required to perform other duties as assigned, including supporting other talent development and planning work that supports the business success.

Job Related Qualifications – Education and Prior Experience:

Required:

• Education: High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Prior Experience: 3 years Customer Experience, Contact Center

Preferred:

• Education: High School Diploma/Associate Degree
• Prior Experience: 5 years Customer Experience, Contact Center

Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written).
• Strong customer-service skills.
• Ability to organize and prioritize to meet deadlines.
• Bank experience preferred.
• Proficiency in Windows based and Microsoft office applications.

Physical Requirements:

• Able to regularly sit for prolonged periods of time.
• Able to travel:
  • occasionally
• Extensive computer usage is required.
• Ability to work:
  • Evenings
    • Frequently
  • Weekends
    • Frequently

Five Star Bank and affiliate companies are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action. We recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic. Five Star Bank and affiliate companies are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities to the full extent required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you feel you need a reasonable accommodation pursuant to the ADA, you are encouraged to contact us at (716)817-2706 or (716)817-5186.

Note: At a later stage in the application process, applicants may be required to provide information about their criminal conviction history, if any, and to authorize the procurement of a consumer report that will contain, among other things, information about criminal conviction history. Except as required by applicable law, prior criminal convictions will not automatically disqualify an applicant from employment, and Five Star Bank will only consider such history in accordance with applicable law. Please be advised, however, that federal law prohibits Five Star Bank from employing “any person who has been convicted of any criminal offense involving dishonesty or a breach of trust or money laundering or has agreed to enter into a pretrial diversion or similar program in connection with a prosecution for such offense” unless the FDIC has provided prior written consent.