Thank you for your interest in joining Bippus State Bank's team located in northeast Indiana.
At Bippus State Bank, our staff members are not just employees, they're part of our family and members of your community based around Huntington, North Manchester, Roanoke, and Warren, Indiana. We are focused on creating positive experiences for our customers and treat them as neighbors, not just another random account number. If you are dependable, motivated, and looking for a rewarding career, consider joining our team and discovering the true value of working at a community bank.
Open Positions
BSA Analyst
Job Description
Position Summary:
The BSA Analyst is responsible for providing support for the Head of Compliance. The BSA Analyst, will assist the BSA Officer in ensuring adherence to the BSA/AML compliance program. Responsible for conducting BSA/AML investigations, due diligence, and tracking. Analyzing alerts and incidents generated for unusual activity. Assist branches affected by BSA Compliance issues & Regulatory requirements. Effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills. Proficient in Excel.
Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions):
- Daily review, work with all applicable staff to clear all alerts in BSA risk software program.
- Review, audit, and certify OFAC reports and watch list alerts and/or messages.
- Prepare and review CTRs for accuracy and make necessary changes to file(s).
- Review cash reports and other applicable core reports for daily tracking and suspicious activity
- Monitor Phase I/II accounts for documentation; review & analyze account activity
- Monitor Independent Automated Teller Machine Owners/Operators for documentation; review & analyze account activity.
- Review FinCEN 314(a) alerts.
- Assist BSA Officer with Suspicious Activity reviews and filings.
- Assist departments with BSA Regulatory requirements.
- Maintain the BSA Education and Compliance Program development and tracking.
- Maintain advanced knowledge and awareness of financial industry status and trends.
- Reinforce the application of superior customer service through his or her own example along with appropriate follow through with involved customers and employees.
- May assist in the preparation for external regulatory audits and state and federal regulatory examinations.
- May assist in the BSA Training for all new employees.
- Seek out, develop, and maintain knowledge and skills through completion of continuing education and training pertinent to the position.
- Must understand all applicable BSA laws and regulations that apply to the position and comply with the requirements.
- Abide by all policies and guidelines as outlined in the Employee Manual and supports the Bank’s goals and values.
- Follow department policies and procedures; completes administrative tasks correctly and on time; supports the Bank’s goals and values; benefits the bank through outside activities.
- Operate computer terminal or personal computer to obtain and process data
- May represent the Bank in various community, civic, and/or BSA functions.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skill, and Ability Requirements:
- Three (3) years or more of banking compliance, banking operations, or bank processing experience required – may be a cumulative combination.
- Prior experience reading, analyzing, summarizing BSA laws and regulations is preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to perform research, and analysis on unfamiliar topics with little direction required.
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong organizational skills, with a demonstrated ability to meet deadlines while working with little or no supervision.
- Highly motivated with the ability to be proactive, take initiative, and carefully monitor, follow through, and complete projects/responsibilities in a professional and timely fashion.
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills, including the ability to interact with freely and comfortably with staff and management at all levels.
- Displays professionalism
- Teamwork oriented
- Ability to conduct extensive research and apply data to improve BSA Program
- Proficiency with PC utilization, standard office software (Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Verafin Monitoring software etc.)
Education:
Associate degree in English, Legal, Data Analytics, or similar required. Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
Travel Requirements:
Ability to travel for audits, meetings, projects or seminars as needed.
Operations Clerk
Position Summary:
This position is a full-time position at the North Office location in Huntington. The Operations Clerk performs a variety of duties in the operations area. Including but not limited to working on check processing, adjustments, return items, exception processing, statement rendering, bookkeeping, reconciling, etc. May perform only one or a combination of these or other related operations duties.
Qualified applicants should possess the following:
- Prior banking experience required
- Overall knowledge of basic finance and accounting preferred
- Must be a self-starter
- Must be detail oriented
- Must possess strong computer skills utilizing but not limited to Microsoft Outlook, Excel and Word.
- Possess strong communication skills
- Posses strong research and comprehension skills
Specific operations duties include (but not limited to):
- Prepare and analyze account reconciliations
- Research and resolve customer problems and assist coworkers
- Proof information that is input into bank software
- Monitor and ensure the correctness and completeness of Begin-of-day and End-of-day procedures, software functions and the processing calendar
- Core banking software administration
- ACH – daily management
- Internet banking administration
- Remote capture administration
- ATM reconciliations
- Maintaining loan records, applying payments, closing account entries, assist in escrow analysis
- Reviewing new account documentation and maintaining that information on the bank’s Core system