Since 1856, Kerndt Brothers Bank has strived to help our customers achieve their financial goals. Our customers' success can be attributed to our team of exceptional employees.
We continuously seek to add talent that focuses on integrity, teamwork, and superior customer service. For nearly 160 years, change and innovation has provided opportunity and growth for career advancement for both existing and new employees.
How to Apply
Complete and e-mail your application along with your resume to [email protected].
Kerndt Brothers Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer as to all protected groups including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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Career Opportunities
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Teller - West Union
At Kerndt Brothers Savings Bank we’re looking for a friendly, detail-oriented Teller to join our team and help create a welcoming experience for every customer who walks through our doors.
If you're enthusiastic, reliable, and love delivering great service, we'd love to hear from you to join our West Union team!
This full-time Teller position is the face of the bank, assisting customers with everyday banking needs while building strong relationships. You will be responsible for:
- Maintaining and balancing a cash drawer, and assisting customers with deposits, withdrawals, check cashing, payments, and coin/cash orders in a friendly and courteous manner
- Answering questions and providing guidance on our products and services
- Identifying opportunities to refer customers to additional banking solutions
Skills We’re Looking For
- Attention to detail and commitment to accuracy
- Basic math and computer proficiency
- Prior customer service or cash-handling experience is a plus, but not required
- A team player who thrives working as with others
This position also has the option for additional career growth opportunities to open and service new personal and business checking, savings, certificates, money market, IRA, safe deposit boxes, HSA and other accounts.
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Client Service Assistant - Decorah
Are you a bright professional who is organized and able to work independently while also functioning as a financial planner’s right hand? Do you have exceptional attention to detail and an ability to complete error-free work? Are you computer savvy? Do you enjoy assisting clients in servicing accounts while providing exceptional service? If so, then you may be the person we are looking for to join our professional financial services team.
This role is designed as both a critical support position and a starting point for long-term career growth within Wealth Management. The Client Service Assistant will have the opportunity to develop the skills and experience needed to pursue industry licensing and grow into a licensed advisor role over time.
This person will be responsible for the administrative functions for Kerndt Brothers Savings Bank Wealth Management financial planners. Responsibilities may vary but include: client correspondence, meeting preparation and follow-up, application processing, database management, and commission tracking.
- Maintains a safe, professional, orderly, and clean working environment, ensuring positive, high-quality customer service at all times.
- Prepares materials and information for client meetings, including but not limited to preparing investment summaries and block charts outlining recommended changes, and ensuring all necessary materials and forms are ready for meetings.
- Processes applications by reviewing and completing any missing information when received from the planner or client.
- Screens client telephone inquiries; answers questions, researches appropriate responses, or refers inquiries to the financial planner as needed.
- Answers incoming customer telephone calls in a courteous and professional manner.
- Delivers superior responsiveness in support of our client base’s inquiries.
- Communicates effectively any concerns to all applicable internal staff members.
- Responds to and researches representative inquiries within a 24-hour period.
- Answers client inquiries and provides appropriate technical and/or product-related information, as well as assistance with requested transactions.
Qualified candidates must be detail-oriented and able to multi-task. Experience working in a paperless office environment is highly preferred. Candidates must be passionately committed to serving and caring for others and able to handle multiple projects simultaneously while operating successfully under deadlines. Must be able to follow directions, work independently, and demonstrate a commitment to excellence and high standards. Strong verbal, written, presentation, and customer service skills are essential.
Previous experience in the investment field is preferred, but not required. Software experience in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook is required.
We support professional development and offer opportunities for motivated individuals to pursue licensing and advance within the organization.
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Business Banker - Cedar Rapids
As a Business Banker, we are looking for candidates with effective interpersonal skills to maintain and create lasting relationships with customers and co-workers. This position will manage and develop commercial credit relationships.
Responsibilities for this position include:
- Managing an existing portfolio
- Soliciting and promoting new business development opportunities from both existing customers and qualified prospects
- Performing financial analysis, by collecting necessary financial information from current and prospective borrowers to enable adequate analysis of the credit.
- Performing thorough underwriting of all new and existing credits in accordance with Bank policy and procedures and utilizing financial analysis software to aid in underwriting and credit decisioning.
- Working with Credit Analysts and other loan support personnel to thoroughly document and maintain credit files to meet Bank and Regulatory standards.
- Maintaining past due accounts at acceptable levels and collection of assigned credit relationships
- Maintaining accurate risk ratings for all assigned credit relationships as required by Bank policy. Pro-actively recommend changes to risk ratings as financial conditions of a credit relationship deem appropriate.
Qualified candidates will have Bachelor’s degree in banking or finance and 5 or more years of related commercial and/or ag lending experience.
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