You cannot be an imperious executive. But if you manage operations well and take good care of your upper management, staff, and customers, everyone will be happy to reward you. Many of these people have been promoted from a position as a loan officer. In addition to having extensive customer contact, tellers have to have a good feel for numbers, a willingness to handle large amounts of cash, and an attention to detail. Specific responsibilities can range from managing network systems to coding applications for a wide variety of transaction-oriented processes to modeling bank functions such as loan approvals and risk management.
Positions usually require specific platform experience or programming knowledge.
Here's another relatively sure prospect for the uncertain future. Banks are competing with brokerages, investment banks, and mutual funds, all of which offer more obvious and alluring opportunities in sales. An undergraduate degree in finance, business, or economics gets you in the door. An MBA gets you a second interview. The job involves helping clients with trust services, estate planning, taxes, investing, and probate law.