# Competences — foreign exchange cashier

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/b7fc1cd1-0d6d-4e9e-8a9f-c3270201be81).

## Essential

- **banking activities** (knowledge)
- **customer service** (knowledge)
- **electronic communication** (knowledge)
- **foreign valuta** (knowledge)
- **handle financial transactions** (skill/competence)
- **maintain financial records** (skill/competence)
- **maintain records of financial transactions** (skill/competence)
- **operate cash register** (skill/competence)
- **perform clerical duties** (skill/competence)
- **provide financial product information** (skill/competence)
- **trade foreign currencies** (skill/competence)

## Optional

- apply technical communication skills (skill/competence)
- commercial law (knowledge)
- communicate with banking professionals (skill/competence)
- communicate with customers (skill/competence)
- financial jurisdiction (knowledge)
- financial markets (knowledge)
- offer financial services (skill/competence)
- process order forms with customer's information (skill/competence)
- provide customers with order information (skill/competence)
- provide customers with price information (skill/competence)
- statistics (knowledge)
- trace financial transactions (skill/competence)
- use IT tools (skill/competence)

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## Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 6 ads, as of 2026-07-12)

Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.

### Hard skills

- cash handling — **100 %**
- customer service — **100 %**
- problem solving — **67 %**
- data entry — **33 %**

### Responsibilities

- customer service delivery — **50 %**
- customer assistance — **33 %**
- following procedures — **33 %**
- independent work — **33 %**
- money transactions — **33 %**
- providing customer service — **17 %**
- maintaining accuracy — **17 %**
- handling cash — **17 %**

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