Accelerated Leadership Track at Five Star Bank

Description

Who We Are

Five Star Bank is a high performing $4.4 Billion community business bank operating through 9 offices - 4 in the Capital Region, 3 in the North Valley, and 2 in the San Francisco Bay Area region. With an emphasis on commercial real estate and small business we partner with organizations to help them be successful by providing highly customized banking solutions. Organizations bank with us because of our entrepreneurial and empathetic spirit, speed to serve and deep connection to our market. And they trust us.

Accelerated Leadership Track (ALT)

At Five Star Bank, we invest in tomorrow’s leaders through the Accelerated Leadership Track (ALT). This interactive, rotational training program is designed for driven graduates, providing relevant experiences from the start. Our goal is to identify individuals who can take on challenging roles early in their careers and nurture their potential to become future leaders.

Program Details

Starting in January 2026, ALT participants will collaborate with various teams across the company. Each rotation offers traditional training, hands-on learning, and strategic insights into growth opportunities. While the rotation order may vary based on business needs, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of our operations by shadowing employees at all levels. At the conclusion of the program, you will work on an innovation project and present your findings to our Executive Leadership team.

Upon successful completion of The Accelerated Leadership Track, you will take on an entry-level management position in any function depending on your profile, interest and results. You will also receive a mentor from the executive team when you start in your first position.

Introduction

Induction to the company’s culture, strategy and structure. In this phase, you will get exposure to our CEO, COO, and meet key executives. 

Operations

Participants will learn the basics of branch banking and relationship banking during this rotation. Our operational division touches each area of the business and is the foundation of our internal and compliance controls.

This rotation will focus on the basics of branch banking with the following goals and outcomes:

•  Learn and understand the basics of being a bank: Bank vs. Credit Union, FDIC vs NCUA and Community Bank vs Big Bank
•  Branch banking controls, including bank terminology, cash controls, authority limits and how items clear
•  Training of security protocols and mitigating fraud with our Fraud 101 program
•  Understand and be able to identify regulations and their order of importance

Relationship Banking

Learn the business where it begins – with our customers. Relationship Management creates partnerships with businesses to help grow the communities we serve. During this rotation, you’ll better understand the client experience, learning how to listen to client needs, assess opportunities, and evaluate their growth potential.

The goals and outcomes of this rotation are:

•  Utilize our full portfolio of bank products, including opening new accounts and maintenance, E-Banking products and forms
•  Differentiate between ownership basics, formation documents, and manage requirements for CIP, phone and/or faxed transactions
•  Training and mastery of our tools and systems
•  Be able to quote rates, using terminology, and identifying and understanding different types

Loan Servicing

In this rotation, you’ll learn general loan concepts, transaction processing, and full-cycle loan processing. As you progress through this rotation, you’ll have hands-on experience with loan processing.

The goals and outcomes of this rotation are:

•  Introduction to general loan concepts (types of loans, interest rates, payment structures, terms, collateral types and direct vs indirect liability)
•  Working with our Loan Servicing team, you’ll work through transaction processing (advances and payments), demands and paid loan processing/release of collateral; and, insurance tracking
•  You’ll transition to working with our documentation specialists to learn loan types and the documentation package required
•  Review and perform collateral perfection sourcing, including title policy reviews; UCC filings/post searches/continuations and VINTek filings/pink slips
•  Shadowing loan boarding, learning what’s expected at funding, including approvals and monetary movement
•  Software training and mastery on nCino, including uploading, placeholding and viewing document packages for loans.
•  At the end of this rotation, the Participant should fully understand the variety of loan types and the start-to-finish loan process, including all documentation, how to utilize tools provided by Five Star Bank and research resources

Requirements

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is in regular communication, is required to use various tools or objects, and have the mobility to move about the office. The employee occasionally lifts and/or moves objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is full-time position and hours of work and days are Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Overtime may be necessary as job duties demand.

Other Duties

The purpose of the job description is to outline the duties and responsibilities for which the position is held accountable. The job description does not restrict the right of management to change, alter or reassign duties at any time with or without notice.

EEO Statement 

Five Star Bank is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and is committed to creating and maintaining a work environment that is free from all forms of discrimination and harassment. The Five Star Bank EEO policy prohibits harassment or discrimination due to age, ancestry, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and any related medical conditions), sexual orientation, and any other classification protected by federal, state, or local laws, regulations, or ordinances. It also prohibits retaliation for engaging in protected activity, such as filing a discrimination or harassment complaint or participating in an EEO investigation. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.

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NOTE: Five Star Bank personnel are employed on an at-will basis. All employment is at-will and can be terminated with or without cause, at any time, by the Employee or by Five Star Bank for any reason or no reason whatsoever, with or without notice.