KeyCorp creates 200 jobs in WNY; bank beefs up Key Express, IRA servicing functions at Amherst center. (KeyCorp Inc.; Western New York; individual retirement accounts; Amherst, New York)

KeyCorp's fresh merger with Cleveland-based Society Corp. is continuing to funnel new jobs into Western New York.

The nation's 11th largest bank is moving some back office operations into the Buffalo area. By year-end, almost 200 new jobs are expected to have been created.

Furthermore, more growth in KeyCorp's Western New York job force, which includes KeyCorp Mortgage Inc., is anticipated in 1995 and beyond as KeyCorp seeks to gain efficiencies through consolidating back-room operations into regional sites, a spokesman said.

KeyCorp and its subsidiaries currently employ 2,455 in the five-county district that includes Buffalo.

Included in the current realignment are:

* KeyCorp's Key Express operations unit in Amherst, which will …