Bank Teller Resume Examples & Writing Guide

A one-page resume for a senior teller with five years in banking, first at a credit union and now at a community bank. The name, bank and school are made up. Each job gives transactions a day, the balancing record, referral numbers and the compliance work, because those are the four things a branch manager asks about in the interview.

A recruiter or an applicant tracking system screens first, then the branch manager or head teller reads the page. The manager has two worries: will this person keep the drawer balanced and follow the rules, and will they refer products and show up for Saturday shifts. Four things answer those worries.

• Cash accuracy. How much you handle a day, your drawer limit, how often you balance and how big your variances have been. Banks track this for every teller, so a stated record ("balanced 99.7% of days, no variance over $20") reads as credible. Without bank experience, a retail drawer record does the same job.
• Referrals and sales. Almost every teller job carries referral goals: accounts, cards, loans, digital banking enrollment. Give the monthly number and the share that were opened, or your rank in the branch or region.
• Compliance and security. Currency transaction reports for cash over $10,000, escalating suspicious activity, check holds under Regulation CC, verifying identification, catching counterfeit bills. Audit and exam results with no exceptions are worth a bullet.
• Reliability and trust. Tellers are bonded and go through a background check, and many banks also run a credit check. Saturday availability, attendance and years at one branch all count. Say you are bondable if it is true.

“I read the balancing record first. Someone who tells me they balanced 99 percent of the time and what their biggest outage was has already passed my first question. Then I look for referral numbers, because the teller line is where most of our new accounts start.”

Most people search for a bank teller job description to paste into the resume. Do not paste it; the manager wrote it. Take each duty and add the volume, the rule or tool involved and a result. The numbers come from your balancing reports, the branch referral tracker, the audit letter and your schedule.

List 10 to 14 skills the branch manager can check in the interview or the teller assessment. Lead with cash handling and the systems you know, then compliance, then referrals and service. Match the posting: a credit union says "member", a big bank says "client". Skip bare words like "trustworthy"; your balancing record proves it.

• Cash handling: counting and strapping currency, drawer balancing to a stated limit, buying and selling cash to the vault, cash recycler (TCR) operation, foreign currency exchange if your branch does it.
• Transactions: deposits, withdrawals, check cashing and negotiability review, cashier's checks, money orders, loan and credit card payments, savings bond redemption, wire request intake, safe deposit box access.
• Compliance and security: Bank Secrecy Act basics, currency transaction reports, suspicious activity escalation, customer identification (CIP), Regulation CC holds, counterfeit detection, robbery and dual-control procedures.
• Systems: your bank's teller and core platform (Jack Henry, Fiserv, FIS or the bank's own system), check imaging, ID verification tools, Microsoft Outlook and Excel for logs and reports.
• Referrals and service: needs-based conversations, product referrals to bankers, digital banking enrollment, handling upset customers, drive-up and lobby queue management.
• Habits banks screen for: attention to detail, Saturday and extended-hours availability, confidentiality, and staying calm when the lobby is full on the 1st and the 15th.

Three lines: years and type of bank, transactions a day and balancing record, referral number, one compliance or trust point. Use an objective only if you have never worked in a bank; then lead with your retail cash record and the role you want.

Bank teller is one of the most common entry-level jobs in banking, and banks expect to train you on their systems and rules. What they cannot train is honesty, accuracy with money, patience with customers and showing up. Prove those four with jobs that were not in a bank.

1. 1Header: name, phone, email, city, and your availability (full time, part time, Saturdays). Add "bondable" if you have no criminal record; it is the word banks use.
2. 2Objective, two lines: your current or last job with a cash or volume number, your accuracy or attendance record, and the teller role you want.
3. 3Experience: cashier, retail, restaurant server, pharmacy or grocery service desk, front desk, call center. Give the dollars handled a shift, the drawer record, customers served, any sales numbers, and attendance.
4. 4Money-handling evidence outside work: club or church treasurer, fundraising, a family business, a bookkeeping course. Be specific about amounts and how you kept records.
5. 5Skills: cash handling, point-of-sale systems, 10-key or numeric data entry, Microsoft Excel, customer service, a second language. Education: high school diploma or GED at minimum; list college coursework in accounting, finance or business if you have it. One page, no photo.

No license is required to be a bank teller in the US. The bank trains you on its own systems and on the rules that apply to tellers. What you can list on a resume is the training you have completed, a notary commission, and any optional certificate that shows you already know the basics.

• Required by nearly all banks: a high school diploma or GED, a clean background check, being bondable, and passing a cash-handling or teller assessment. Many banks also review your credit report. A degree in business or finance helps later, when you want to move up to personal banker or branch management.
• Employer training worth listing: Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering (BSA/AML), Regulation CC (funds availability), customer identification program, information security, robbery procedures. Write "annual BSA/AML and Regulation CC training, current (employer program)" so the manager knows you have already done it.
• Notary Public: a state commission that lets you notarize documents for customers. Common for senior tellers, and worth getting if your bank will sponsor it. Requirements and terms vary by state (most commissions run 4 to 5 years); list the state and the commission dates.
• Optional certificates: the American Bankers Association offers a Bank Teller Certificate built from its online courses, and credit union trade groups offer similar teller training. Nice to have, not required. Name the issuer and year.
• Not needed for tellers: NMLS registration, which applies to mortgage loan originators, and securities or insurance licenses. If you want to move to personal banker or loan officer later, say so in the interview, not on the resume.

• One page, always. Even a head teller with 15 years fits on one page by giving older jobs a single line each.
• Order: header with availability, summary or objective, work history with numbers, skills, certifications and training, education. Put the balancing record and referral numbers in the top third of the page.
• Plain single-column layout, one conservative color, standard font, no photo, no date of birth, no Social Security number. Large banks use applicant tracking systems (Workday, Taleo, iCIMS) that parse simple layouts best; a community bank manager prints the PDF. Banks are conservative employers; a resume that looks like a bank statement reads better than one that looks like a flyer.
• Keywords to mirror from the posting: "teller", "cash handling", "balancing", "transactions", "deposits and withdrawals", "referrals", "cross-sell" or "needs-based conversations", "BSA", "Regulation CC", "customer service", "member service" (credit unions), "drive-up", "vault", "ATM", the teller platform named in the posting, and "Saturday availability".
• Titles vary: bank teller, teller I/II/III, senior teller, head teller, member service representative (credit unions), universal or relationship banker (tellers who also open accounts). Use the posting's title in your objective and your real title in the work history.
• Outside the US the document is a bank teller CV, and the job is often called bank cashier or bank clerk in the UK and Ireland. Two pages is normal there; the balancing and sales numbers still carry the page.

Run the finished page through the cvplex ATS checker with the posting pasted in. It flags a missing balancing or referral number, terms from the posting you left out ("BSA", "Regulation CC", the platform name), and formatting a bank's tracking system may misread.