Branch Assistant

6 days ago

Inverness, United Kingdom Scottish Building Society Full time

**Join our Team**

Scottish Building Society is a mutual building society, which means we are owned by and run for our members. Although you may not have heard about us, we are the oldest remaining building society in the world. We started life in 1848 as the Edinburgh Investment Company. We help people save and buy their first and subsequent homes throughout their lives. We are a dedicated team focused on growing the Society whilst not losing sight of our values.

At SBS, our people are our most important asset - we couldn’t offer such a personalised service without them. We are connected into the communities our colleagues live and work in, and we strive to have a workforce that is representative of our members.

We are keen to recruit talented individuals who are interested in joining a company in which they can really make a difference. Our culture is friendly, open and inclusive where we actively encourage everyone to bring themselves to work. If you choose to join our team, you’ll find a great workplace and opportunities to develop and grow. We are currently on an exciting transformative journey, which the successful applicant would be part of.

**The Opportunity**

Reporting to the Team Leader - Relationship Centres, a Member Relationship Assistant will deliver an exceptional personalised service, building relationships through regular contact and increasing awareness of our service offering to support growth and retention of existing members and acquisition of new members through online.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Service**:

- Provision of excellent customer service by being the first point of contact and delivering an exceptional Front of House Experience.
- Actioning customer queries and requests.
- Building relationships and finding solutions.
- Process transactions including opening of new accounts, making sure all due diligence is followed in line with regulatory requirements.
- Efficient Inbound call answering to meet Society’s standards.
- Efficient Outbound calling to members as part of our Relationship strategy
- Continuous identification of service improvements both from own experience and from member feedback
- Being a Subject Matter Expert in those tasks aligned to each Centre of Excellence and support other colleagues with their knowledge.
- Accurate cash handling.
- Adherence to Relationship Centre security measures.
- Treat information with appropriate confidentiality and sensitivity.
- Actively promoting use of online service to members.
- Logging any customer complaints in line with the regulatory guidance and timescales and taking personal ownership for these and where required, forwarding to the relevant departments for investigation, proactive tracking of progress and relaying the outcome of the investigation to the customer and/or providing progress updates to the customer as appropriate.
- Account maintenance including transfers, cheque requests and Faster Payments, closing accounts and processing of Bond maturities.
- Power of attorney and deceased customers.
- Ensuring the relevant operating procedure manuals are reviewed in the first instance and updated as required and kept fit for purpose.

**Other**:

- General office duties.
- Dealing with incoming and outgoing mail
- Project work or testing as required.
- Participate in the training and mentoring of colleagues.
- Continuously develop and maintain your technical and professional knowledge and competence.
- This list is not exhaustive and the post holder is expected to carry out any other tasks that are required to fulfil the needs of the role. Management may add or subtract from the list of duties in order to meet the need of the business as they see fit and as per the terms and conditions of contract._

**Skills & Capabilities for the role**

**Qualifications**:

- Preferably educated to Higher Level or equivalent.

**Essential experience**:

- Working in a Customer Service environment.
- Previous experience of working with Microsoft Office.

**Desired experience**:

- Working within a Financial Services organisation
- Tenured experience working within a Customer Service environment

**Behaviours**:

- Professional and ethical
- Strong interpersonal relationships
- Able to work with minimum supervision and to deadlines
- Willing to take on responsibility and accountability
- Ability to consider the needs, abilities, and personalities of others
- Willing to work as part of a team and involve others
- Positive approach

**Essential skills**:

- Accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Excellent numeric abilities.
- Good listening skills.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Customer service orientation.
- Problem solving.
- Honesty and integrity.
- This list is not exhaustive, management reserve the right to amend the requirements as they see fit to ensure the post holder’s ability to fulfil the needs of the role._

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