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Accounting  

• Technical Account Manager: Provide account management and high-level technical support to project teams and customers. Mentor and train technical account specialists. 
• Accounting Consultant: Responsible for programming, implementing, and handling of his/her organization’s accounting processes. Offer assistance and resolve issues affecting the customer. 
• Accounting Lead: Analysis of financial statements, revenue recognition, budgeting & forecasting, month-end entries, review of junior accountant work, bank & credit card reconciliations, and processing state excise taxes. 
• Senior Accountant: Perform accurate and timely month, quarter and year-end close. Prepare and review monthly financials and management reporting package, maintain general ledger structure, consolidate and track monthly revenue, ensure revenue recognition is in accordance with ASC 606, and revenue is deferred appropriately, and review new and existing company contracts for technical accounting issues. 

• Manager of Accounting: Responsible for developing and maintaining the accounting systems and procedures that accountants use to collect, analyze and verify an organization’s financial data.  
• Managing Director of Finance and Accounting: Lead a team of expert recruiting professionals where we specialize in matching great companies with great candidates. Analyze local and national trends, the economy, location, and any skill set and salary limitations in order to deliver the best solutions to my clients. 
• Chief Financial Officer: Track cash flow and financial planning.  Analyze the company’s financial strengths and weaknesses and propose corrective actions. 
• Technical Accounting Manager: Support the global implementation and operationalization of new FASB accounting standards in accordance with US GAAP. Support quarterly SEC Reporting process. Research and interpret technical accounting matters. 
• Financial Reporting Accountant: Conduct the monthly consolidation and preparation of global balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, statements of stockholders’ equity, and ad hoc reports on a quarterly, monthly, and annual basis for management, Board of Directors, and investors, including the drafting of MD&A and footnotes. 

• Director of Global SEC Reporting: Conduct monthly presentations to the CFO and Senior. Management team on the SEC filings for the organization. Review and revise the SEC financial filing process and SEC filings, including Form 10-K, Form 11-K, Form 10Q, footnotes to the financial statements, XBRL and Management Discussion and Analysis. Oversee the consolidation process including shared-based compensation; derivatives, and benefit plan journal entries. 
• Accounts Payable Processor: Utilize Oracle software to timely process high volumes of invoices for multiple operating units. Answer vendor questions regarding status, terms, and methods of payment. Resolve invoice rejections and holds by communicating with the procurement and general ledger teams. 
• Tax Manager: Responsible for keeping businesses compliant with various local, states, and federal tax regulations. They implement measures and develop policies for dealing with various areas relating to taxes. Perform estimations, analysis, planning, research and oversee audits. 
• Controller: Supervise the month-end close process each period, ensuring that all entries are booked completely, accurately and in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Coordinate the year-end audit with the company’s external auditors, ensuring that all deadlines are met. Manage all cash flow and treasury activities including 13 week forecasts, weekly reporting to private equity owners, intake and outflow projections, and managing relationships with vendors. 
• Financial Analyst: Improves financial status by analyzing results, monitoring variances, identifying trends and recommending actions to management. Reconciles transactions by comparing and correcting data. Maintains database by entering, verifying, and backing up data. 

• Fractional Controller: Produce monthly financial reports, balance sheet, profit & loss, prepare budgets and financial plans, industry-specific reports and analysis, set up internal controls, and policies and procedures. 
• Finance Manager: Manage North American corporate accounts payable relationships with numerous business partners aimed at driving efficiency in the business while meeting global AP metrics. 
• Senior Accountant: Controller-type role managing general ledger, financial statements and related stakeholder relationships for most diverse sports and entertainment stadium in the nation. 
• EVP & Chief Financial Officer: Lead strategic growth initiatives for the 110+ year-old farmer-owned co-op with net sales rapidly approaching $1B. Oversee financial planning and analysis, treasury, risk management, accounting, information technology and strategic planning. 
• Accounting Specialist: Manage all forms of financial accounts within an organization. Keep accurate records of both accounts payable and receivable, ensuring that invoices are paid where necessary, and that clients pay invoices as required. 

• Basketball Data Analyst: Work with coaches and players to maximize the talents of the players like “Money Ball”, identify under-valued players. NBA players use wearable technologies to track their health, avoid injury, and track their fatigue levels.
•  Director of Business Development: Build relationships and provide strategic direction to grow profit. Focus on building and guiding relationships both internally and externally with sales and marketing teams, vendors and distributors, and customers.
• Director at Economics: Provide expert testimony on the valuation of companies and projects involved in international disputes. Deliver analysis that explains economic and valuation theory in straightforward terms easily understood by all parties involved.
• Assistant Sales Manager: Manage value-added product categories such as bagged salad, super premium juice, dried produce, bulk foods, refrigerated dressings, Asian specialty, healthy/meat alternatives, and more. Oversee all marketing and merchandising.
• Communications and Research Coordinator: Develop locally oriented marketing publications and other printed materials in conjunction with the CEO. Design and produce weekly and monthly newsletters. Manage production of limited edition in-house print projects. Maintain social media outlets including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.
• Financial Wellness Professional: Empower the financial wellness of clients’ one decision at a time. Develop a comprehensive understanding of client needs by asking questions around banking, borrowing, saving, and investing. Effectively manage a book of business by identifying products and services to meet client needs and/or referring to appropriate sales professionals in retail, investment services, private bank, mortgage, or business banking.
• In-Stock Management: Oversee planning of drive analysis and optimization of inventory management systems and processes to ensure company achieves world-class inventory availability and inventory health.
• Solutions Engineer: Meet with clients to discuss their hardware and software needs. Strategize with the sales team to create customized solutions. Draft and deliver presentations on targeted products. Design and install customized software and hardware solutions for the customer.
• Procurement Analyst: Act as strategic thought partner with category managers to ensure a data-driven strategy. Develop procurement analytics space. Help build the procurement brand internally by building trust and influencing stakeholders to find solutions that provide optimal value.
• Operations Manager: Advance knowledge of members business to best assist them in their desired and potential growth on platforms of analysis, influence, and operational effectiveness. Create innovative strategies for efficiency in members business with the resources on hand to improve the culture of members personal, professional & financial goals.
• Senior Product Manager: Lead and coordinate design/implementation efforts between internal teams and outside merchants and vendors to develop optimal solutions. Make appropriate tradeoffs to optimize time-to-market, clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal cross-functional and remote-project teams.
• Private Investor:  Invest in small or large start-up businesses, and businesses that have been operating but have run into hard financial times.
• Project Manager: Take construction projects from bid (estimate) to completion. Manage the budget for projects and present on the estimated “vs” actual budget to ownership. Assist in the audited financial-statement preparation and year-end adjusting journal entries. Develop company-wide documenting standards for all aspects of the business including A/P, A/R, bidding, and project management.
• BSA Investigator: Responsible for supporting all aspects of the BSA Compliance Program. Partner with safety and soundness examiners to efficiently schedule and execute the BSA portion of the examination of financial institutions. Analyze bank policies, procedures and controls related to BSA strategy, risk, and independent testing. Collaborate with BSA and bank examiners and Reserve Bank management to recommend BSA regulatory assessments. Develop organized work papers to document analysis and support conclusions.
• Mortgage Loan Officer: Responsible for fostering quality relationships with borrowers while completing the origination processing of loan applications and disclosures.  Review files for completeness, accuracy, and adherence to all guidelines.
• Senior Diversity Consultant: Develop and execute DE&I programs to build brand trust and strategic relationships, create an inclusive workplace culture to drive results, and reflect the communities served in workforce.
• Senior Managing Consultant: Asset management and investment advisory for public entities within the Pacific Northwest Region.
• Senior Business Analyst: System administrator for enterprise content management system. Work with internal customers to transform business requirements into Tableau dashboards and reports.
• Deputy Manager: Manage staff to increase sales and ensure business efficiency. Propose operational and strategic goals for both short and long term. Produce reports on performance and measure these against set indicators. Analyze sales figures and forecasting future sales volumes.

OTM, being an inter-disciplinary major, involving the disciplines of operations management, information management, and data sciences/analytics opens job opportunities in these three areas.

Our alumni work in numerous roles across many industries. Some companies that employ our alumni include: Amazon, Adidas, Nike, Intel     , Apple  , Facebook, Google, Microsoft, KMPG, Visa, Warner Brothers Games, Daimler, Blount, LinkedIn, Fisher Investments, Frito Lay, Booz Allen Hamilton, U.S. Bank, Columbia Sportswear, Pacific Sea Foods, Starbucks, Qualcomm, PACCAR, Providence Health, Acumed, Blount, Kaiser Permanente.

Salary range: Average annual starting salary for graduates with undergraduate degrees similar to OTM (MIS, Management sciences and quantitative methods) is between $58,000 and $60,000 (NACE data, 2017).

OPERATIONS

• Operations Analyst: Analyzes operations, identifies problems, uses operations management tools and techniques to research, solve, and recommend solutions.
• Supply Chain Analyst: Uses analytical and quantitative methods to understand, predict, and enhance supply-chain processes and performance. Identifies problems, assembles data, applies models and methods to analyze performance and develops and communicates recommendations.
• Procurement Analyst: Contributes to supply-chain processes; main role is to be a liaison between their employers and vendors by negotiating contracts and presenting decision-making criteria to decision makers to help enable efficient procurement of goods and services.
• Buyer: Analyze demand of current market, negotiate and make deals with vendors, make or contribute to buying decisions based on their market research and ultimately help choose what products end up on the shelves of a store.
• Supply Chain Planner: By considering the entirety of supply chain, planners are responsible for long and short-term planning. Through forecasting and planning, they are responsible for driving supply-chain efficiencies, managing risks, promoting safety, and help with the decision-making process.
• Warehouse Manager: Responsible for managing warehouse and staff.  Maintains receiving, warehousing, operational, and personnel policies and procedures; Coordinate operations by planning and enforcing programs.
• Business Analyst: Determines operational objectives by studying business functions, gathering information, and evaluating output requirements and formats.  Works on improving operational efficiencies.
• Inventory Analyst: Responsible for managing product inventory and day-to-day inventory operations. Using inventory-management theory and practice, they are responsible for managing non-stationary demand, perpetual inventory systems accuracy, physical and cycle counting programs, overstocks, and shortages.
• Project Manager: Responsible for a specific project or projects within a company. Their job is to plan, budget, oversee and document all aspects of the project they are working on using project management principles and frameworks.  They efficiently address project risk and ensure that projects are delivered successfully.
• Brand Development and Management: Responsible for all aspects of creating and managing brands; overseeing operations to ensure that customers receive the right message regarding brands.
• Product Owner: Using insights from customers, they are responsible for coming up with a product vision and product features that will lead to successful products in the market.
• Operations Manager: Plan, direct, or coordinate the operations of organizations by formulating policies, managing daily operations, and planning the use of materials and resources. They analyze and improve organizational process and work to improve quality, productivity and efficiency.
• Operations and Logistics Manager: Specializes in overseeing warehouse management, inventory control, material handling, customer service, transportation and managing workers. They control the flow of incoming materials and outgoing products to ensure customers receive products on time.
• Quality Engineer: Responsible for setting up quality standards by collecting and analyzing data to ensure that company’s processes are meeting the stipulated standards.
• Demand Planner: Use internal and external data, models, and analysis to effectively estimate/forecast future product demand.
• Transportation Supply Chain Leader: Negotiate contracts and rates with shipping lines, freight forwarders, customs house brokers, warehouse managers and related third-party logical service providers. Oversee import and export compliance procedures.
• Business Process Specialist: Researches, analyzes, and recommends improvements to an organization’s business processes to improve overall performance.
• Manufacturing Performance Manager: Coordinates the work of employees and machinery in the production process ensuring that all employees and departments meet the productivity and efficiency standards of the organization.
• Logistics Coordinator: Works in transportation and/or warehousing by processing orders and oversee cycle of order fulfillment.  Responsible for making sure supplies, stock, materials, packages, and/or products are processed through the delivery and warehouse system efficiently.
• Director: Leads a large group of employees, creates operations plans, overviews a portfolio of projects, interviews and hires key positions for projects, and works with customers in meeting their requirements.

INFORMATION SYSTEMS

• Business Systems Analyst: Determines business requirements by studying business processes, researching, evaluating output requirements and formats, and modeling requirements. Improves systems by studying current practices, designing modifications, and creating new systems.
• E-commerce Analyst: Analyzes online retail sales data by generating sales reports.  They analyze trends in customer purchases and evaluate changes in the online retail market.
• CRM Analyst: Manage and analyze the data that companies collect about customers including: sales records, purchasing history, type of purchases, service history, complaints, and exposure and response to marketing campaigns and channel preferences. Use such data and CRM systems to improve ways to serve customers.
• Software Implementation Consultant: Provide software consultancy primarily to customers during an implementation phase of an information systems project.
• System Administrator (e.g., Salesforce administrator): Install, upgrade, and monitor various aspects of an information system. Maintain systems such as operating systems, business applications, security tools, web-servers, email, PCs, and area networking.
• IT Audit and Advisory Specialist: Reviews and improves aspects of a company’s IT infrastructure including data systems, computer networks and security solutions.  Identifies risks and advises on appropriate controls to put in place.
• Technical Recruiter: Responsible for all aspects of the sourcing and hiring of IT professionals to fill technical positions.
• IT Support Specialist: Maintain computer systems and hardware and assist users in requests.
• Cloud Systems Engineer/Cloud Architect: Responsible for management of a company’s cloud computing environment including cloud application design, cloud approval plans, and systems required to manage cloud storage.
• Site Reliability Engineer: Responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of internal container software platform.
• Software Engineer: Apply information systems development principles for the design, development, and testing of software applications for computers.
• IT Internal Control Specialist: Specializes in streamlining and improving organizational work processes, IT systems, implementing methods to minimize risks, oversee processes for incidents reports, maintaining records for work processes and provide technical guidance to personnel.
• BI SQL Technical Administrator: Design, develop, and maintain business intelligence solutions, and are proficient in the technical administration of BI systems.
• Technical Architect: Responsible for designing the overall structure of enterprise applications or systems needed to fulfill the informational needs of a company.  Responsible for working with teams to implement such systems to efficiently streamline operations.
• Lead Developer: Responsible for application development and oversees work being done by any other software engineers working on the project.
• VP of Information Systems: Plan and execute information systems strategy for the organization as well as for the implementation and maintenance of current/new systems.
• Solutions Architect: Responsible for solution-level decisions and analysis of impact on the overall business goals and outcomes.

DATA/ANALYTICS

• Data/Analytics/Business Intelligence Analyst: Responsible for providing the necessary information to assist organizational development at operational, tactical, and strategic levels. The information is usually provided in the form of reports, visualizations, and dashboards. Analysts are also proficient in combining data from different sources and evaluate data for fitness of use for statistical modeling.
• Data Engineer: Develop programs, tests, maintenance of processes and systems, (such as engineering databases and large-scale data processing systems) for further use by analysts. They plan, design, and implement ways to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality.
• Marketing/Retail/Sales/Customer Operations Analyst: Responsible for measuring marketing performance, managing retail and sales data, and assist with client-support services. They use this information to improve and implement new marketing operational processes.
• Marketing Research Analyst: Perform research and gather data to help a company market its products or services. Focus on customer demographics, preferences, needs, and buying habits to provide insights into customer behavior.
• Information and Governance Lead: Create and enforce set of rules and governance policies regarding data usage in executing company’s operations. Communicates these policies for planning, monitoring, and appraising data expectations to their internal members and external stakeholders.
• Senior Manager (Digital Analytics): Responsible for designing, deploying, and enhancing a suite of critical analytic reports and queries to support the analytical strategy for the company.