Trying to get a Government Job

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Staff Accountant or Accounts Receivable (look at hospitals, universities, schools, physician practices, as well as big businesses):

- Maintaining journal entries and ledger balances for the purpose of reporting financial performance.

- Handle business transactions, keeping records of cash collections, monitoring outstanding accounts, working to improve your company's process for collecting cash faster and more often

Contract Analyst, Reimbursement Analyst, Contract Manager/Management:

- Pricing out contract proposals to determine whether a contract offer represents an increase or decrease in revenue, and quantifying said amounts.

Business Analyst or Financial Analyst in a Financial Planning or Financial Planning & Analysis department:

- Assess business opportunities, develop a financial projection for said opportunity, develop financial metrics with the goal of supporting an executive and informing him whether the business opportunity is wise

- Develop reports on market share to assess competition within certain regions, helping to inform business decisions and the development of a firm's strategic direction

Operations Analyst in an Operations Management department:
- Designing processes, such as routes for a delivery truck, to maximize the number of deliveries in a day while minimizing time and expenses for things like gasoline.

- Analyzing operational efficiency in a business with the goal of enhancing throughput, speed, efficiency.

Business Analyst in a finance, accounting, or budget department:
- Working behind the scenes to maintain a database's integrity, permitting end users to reliably report accurate information.

Budget Analyst in a finance, accounting, or budget department:
- Develop budgets and financial projections for a company, and assist deparment heads in the development of their budgets

Actuary (requires passing a test and a mastery of probability and statistics):
- Calculating probabilities of certain events taking place, factoring in the cost of said event, for the purpose of developing an expected cost

Claims Adjuster (Matty does this stuff):
- Interfacing with customers to handle insurance claims

Sales
- Interfacing with customers to sell products (Trained to do this but I don't really want to go into sales anymore).

Marketing Coordinator, Marketing Analyst, Advertiser, Advertising Analyst, Advertising Coordinator:
- Design marketing materials and advertising to the customer