HomeTrust Bancshares, Inc. is the holding company for HomeTrust Bank. As of June 30, 2024, the Company had assets of $4.7 billion. The Bank, founded in 1926, is a North Carolina state chartered, community-focused financial institution committed to providing value added relationship banking through over 30 locations as well as online/mobile channels. Locations include: North Carolina (including the Asheville metropolitan area, the “Piedmont” region, Charlotte, and Raleigh/Cary), Upstate South Carolina (Greenville), East Tennessee (including Kingsport/Johnson City, Knoxville, and Morristown) Southwest Virginia (including the Roanoke Valley) and Georgia (Greater Atlanta).
10 Woodfin Street, Asheville, NC
Employees at our company have a positive vision for the future because our leadership team presents a vision that is easy to understand and communicates frequently via company-wide videos about where we stand relative to our stated goals. The phrase “Ready for What’s Next” is at the core of our culture. At HTB, we foster a culture of thinking and acting like an owner and taking intelligent risks, while keeping things fun.
Employees are encouraged to approach each day with integrity, professional courage, teamwork, continuous growth, and to embrace diversity. HTB strives to uphold these values every day and encourage extraordinary success through our 33 culture fundamentals. These fundamentals outline how we work with each other, our clients, and our partners.
Our CEO serves as a model of our company values by doing the right thing, always. This is our #1 culture fundamental and our CEO, Hunter Westbrook, demonstrates this fundamental each day through honesty, accessibility, and integrity.
We show respect and ensure that all voices are heard and ideas are valued throughout the company by providing employees with opportunities to share feedback through our annual employee engagement survey and subsequent action plans which allow employees and their leaders to identify and work on areas of opportunity as well as continue the things we do well. In addition, our CEO conducts skip-level meetings to get honest feedback from employees. In 2023, we conducted a corporate wide, “Kill a Stupid Rule” contest, which allowed employees to submit ideas and share their perspectives on what we can do to streamline processes for our customers and employees to make HTB a more efficient place to bank and work while maintaining appropriate compliance, safety, and quality. Submissions could be for something that we needed to stop completely or change/update to make it more efficient. A cross-departmental committee was formed to review and evaluate submissions to roll up the top submissions to the Executive Management Team for selecting the contest winners which was followed by planning for the implementation of solutions for the winning submissions.
Employees collaborate throughout our company by getting clear on expectations, speaking straight, and embracing diverse perspectives. We encourage collaboration because at HTB we feel that by sharing information and working together allows us to find better solutions for our customers inside and outside of the bank.
In addition to a generous PTO policy which increases with tenure and officer status, we offer company paid STD and LTD. The STD coverage is 100% wage replacement for 6 weeks for employees with at least 1 year of service with the bank. We offer 6 weeks 100% paid parental leave, which is gender neutral and inclusive – for birth, adoption or foster placement. Our benefits plans start as low as $14 per pay period and we offer wellness plans for physical, mental, and financial health. We offer access to complimentary financial planning days, annually. All employees may participate in our KSOP which is a 401K with company match and a discretionary contribution in the form of an Employee Stock Ownership Program. We also offer Community Service Leave, a Wellness Program, Employee Resources Groups, Monthly Book Club, Employee Banking Program, and Tuition Reimbursement Program.
