- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who plans, develops, and directs financial policies and practices of bank, savings bank, commercial bank, trust company, mortgage company, credit union, or company dealing in consumer credit, such as finance company, to ensure that financial objectives, goals, and institutional growth are met and in accordance with policies of Board of Directors or corporate charter and government regulations. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and develops investment, loan, interest, and reserve policies to ensure optimum monetary returns in accordance with availability of investment funds, government restrictions, and sound financial practices.
* Coordinates communication and reporting activities between divisions, departments, and branch offices to ensure availability of data required for efficient daily operations.
* Delegates to subordinate corporate officers authority for administering activities and operations under their control.
* Reviews reports and financial statements to determine policy changes due to changes in economic conditions.
* May serve as bank representative in professional, business, and community organizations to promote bank services.
* May plan budget and monitor financial activities, using computer.
* May serve on Board of Directors.
* May be designated according to type of financial institution as President, Commercial Bank; President, Credit Union; President, Finance Company; President, Mortgage Company; President, Savings Bank; President, Trust Company.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares budgets based on previous budget figures or estimated revenue and expense. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews records of sales and actual operating expenses, such as payrolls and material costs.
* Compiles tables of revenues and expenses to show current budget status.
* Writes justifications for overrun or underrun of budget estimates.
* Computes ratios and percentages to make interdepartmental comparisons, indicate trends, and show other selected factors.
* Prepares charts and graphs.
* Tabulates statistical data for presentation in miscellaneous budget reports, using calculator and typewriter or computer.
* May prepare financial statement showing profit and loss.
* May examine budget and requisition funds and be designated Expenditure-Requisition Clerk.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who computes and records cash receipts, issues operating funds, receives money and makes change, via pneumatic tube, to assist cashiering personnel in department store. Responsibilities include:
* Issues bank to cashiering stations.
* Receives, via pneumatic tube, carriers containing money and sales slips from sales departments, and makes change, using cash drawer and change dispenser.
* Records individual payments received, using adding machine.
* Inserts change into carrier and routes, via tube, for return to specified department.
* Receives bank and cash receipts from departments and c.o.d.
* collections from delivery-truck drivers, tallies cash receipts, and verifies cash against accompanying reports.
* Sorts and counts currency, checks, refunds, and gift certificates.
* Stacks currency manually and sorts, counts, and wraps coins, using machine.
* Computes totals, using adding machine, and records on daily report.
* Corrects faulty entries on individual cash reports received.
* May perform tasks without use of pneumatic tube.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rakes cooked offal or tankage from cookers or from platform near press into hopper of hydraulic press used to extract grease.
* Cleans working area and scrubs floors, using cleaning agents and brushes.
* May rake crackling residue from extractor tanks onto conveyor and start pump to transfer solvent to extractor tanks to dissolve crackling and be designated Extractor Puller (oils & grease).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, supervises, and participates in activities of personnel engaged in Federal Aviation Administration inflight testing of air navigational aids, air traffic controls, communications equipment, and sites of proposed equipment installations. Responsibilities include:
* Schedules and coordinates inflight testing program with ground support crews, air traffic, and military personnel to assure ground tracking, equipment monitoring, and related services.
* Conducts regularly scheduled and special flights to test equipment under all types of flight conditions including adverse weather, using both manual and automatic controls.
* Prepares evaluation reports of flight activities and reviews reports prepared by facilities-flight-check pilots.
* Recommends promotion, transfer, and discharge of personnel and authorizes leave.
* Recommends purchase, repair, or modification of equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages hotel or motel recreational facilities. Responsibilities include:
* Advises guests of available activities, such as swimming, skating, boating, and other sports.
* Processes applications for rental of cabanas, docking of yachts, and membership.
* Hires and directs activities of subordinates.
* Compiles record of receipts collected for use of facilities.
* Requisitions supplies and equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles payroll data, and enters data or computes and posts wages, and reconciles errors, to maintain payroll records, using computer or calculator. Responsibilities include:
* Compiles payroll data, such as hours worked, sales or piecework, taxes, insurance, and union dues to be withheld, and employee identification number, from time sheets and other records.
* Prepares computer input forms, enters data into computer files, or computes wages and deductions, using calculator, and posts to payroll records.
* Reviews wages computed and corrects errors to ensure accuracy of payroll.
* Records changes affecting net wages, such as exemptions, insurance coverage, and loan payments for each employee to update master payroll records.
* Records data concerning transfer of employees between departments.
* May prorate expenses to be debited or credited to each department for cost accounting records.
* May prepare periodic reports of earnings, taxes, and deductions.
* May keep records of leave pay and nontaxable wages.
* May prepare and issue paychecks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles records of fund reserves of bank and branches to ensure conformity with Federal Reserve requirements. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews cash orders from branches to determine that order follows established procedure and amount meets with bank limitations and requirements.
* Posts order to department record sheet, or computer files, using computer.
* Telephones order to Federal Reserve Bank, and prepares letter to Federal Reserve confirming order, using computer or typewriter.
* Charges or credits accounts, following bank regulations.
* Keeps records of bank balance with Federal Reserve Bank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to dissolve crude tetryl in heated benzene for manufacture of explosives. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pump to transport benzene in weighing tank and turns valve to transfer it to dissolving tank.
* Admits steam to outer jacket of dissolving tank to heat solvent.
* Weighs out raw tetryl on scale and scoops it into tank with heated solvent.
* Starts agitator to mix solution for prescribed time.
* Turns valve to transfer solution to crystallizer for recovery of solvent.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who maintains bank's balances on deposit in foreign banks to ensure foreign exchange position, and negotiates prices at which such exchanges shall be purchased and sold, based on demand, supply, and stability of currency. Responsibilities include:
* Refers to international bank market rate to determine foreign exchange rates.
* Establishes local rates based upon international bank rates, size of transaction involved, stability of market, and bank's balances available to fund customer requirements.
* Negotiates purchase and sale of foreign exchange drafts on foreign exchange market and calculates U.S.
* dollar equivalents, using calculator or computer.
* Adjusts deposit balances with foreign banks.
* May direct foreign exchange personnel in transactions relating to international monetary business.
Industry:Professional careers
