Profession foreign exchange cashier

Foreign exchange cashiers process cash transactions from clients in national and foreign currencies. They provide information on the conditions and exchange rates for buying and selling foreign currencies, make deposits of money, record all foreign exchange transactions and check for money validity.

Personality Type

• Conventional / Enterprising

Knowledge

• Electronic communication

  Data communication performed through digital means such as computers, telephone or e-mail.

• Customer service

  Processes and principles related to the customer, client, service user and to personal services; these may include procedures to evaluate customer's or service user's satisfaction.

• Foreign valuta

  The currencies of different countries such as the euro, dollar or yen including their exchange rate and the methods of currency conversion.

• Banking activities

  The broad and continuously growing banking activities and financial products managed by banks ranging from personal banking, corporate banking, investment banking, private banking, up to insurance, foreign exchange trading, commodity trading, trading in equities, futures and options trading.

Skills

• Perform clerical duties

  Perform administrative tasks such as filing, typing up reports and maintaining mail correspondence.

• Maintain financial records

  Keep track of and finalise all formal documents representing the financial transactions of a business or project.

• Maintain records of financial transactions

  Collate all the financial transactions done in the daily operations of a business and record them in their respective accounts.

• Provide financial product information

  Give the customer or client information about financial products, the financial market, insurances, loans or other types of financial data.

• Trade foreign currencies

  Buy or sell foreign currencies or valuta on the foreign exchange market on your own account or on behalf of a customer or institution in order to make a profit.

• Handle financial transactions

  Administer currencies, financial exchange activities, deposits as well as company and voucher payments. Prepare and manage guest accounts and take payments by cash, credit card and debit card.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB