Regional community bank with commercial and consumer lending across NY and Mid-Atlantic
Five Star Bank is a 200-year-old regional bank serving Western and Central New York plus the Mid-Atlantic via commercial loan offices. The tech stack is traditional—Excel, Office, Salesforce, Azure, AWS—with no active adopts or replacements, reflecting a mature operations footprint. Hiring velocity is accelerating across finance, sales, and ops roles, while project focus clusters heavily on compliance (BaaS policies, deposit/lending product oversight, risk assessment) and operational friction (mortgage improvements, delinquency reduction, platform reliability).
Five Star Bank provides consumer and commercial banking, lending, and investment services to individuals, small businesses, and municipalities across Western and Central New York, with a commercial loan production office serving the broader Mid-Atlantic region. The bank operates as a subsidiary of Financial Institutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISI), a financial holding company. Five Star's service portfolio includes personal and business banking, online account management, bill pay, small business lending, and insurance products. The organization spans 501–1,000 employees focused on retail banking delivery, commercial credit, and community relationships.
Core systems: Excel, Microsoft Office, Windows Server, Active Directory, Salesforce, Outlook, Azure, AWS. Specialized tools include NMLS for compliance. No recent tech migrations are underway.
Warsaw, NY. The bank operates branch locations across Western and Central New York and maintains a commercial loan production office serving the Mid-Atlantic region.
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