-: My name is Linda Graham and I'm an accountant.
What we do at my organization is
pretty much everything, we are the...
I work for DFAS,
which is defense, finance, and accounting
organization or services.
And we are the largest finance
and accounting organization in the world.
So anything that falls on
the Department of Defense, we pretty much handle,
whether it's paying our war fighters,
paying civilians,
and I produce financial statements
for the government,
so that's my direct job title.
A lot of what I'm working on now is
to just pretty much go through
making our work more efficient.
So a lot of things we do in a process
improvement project, so somebody who could be in
project management would be
a great success at our company
because we're trying to make
programs more efficiently,
have systems that are more audible-friendly
and more user-friendly.
So that's probably the biggest thing,
is to make our department run more efficiently.
We collect a lot of data.
Clocked a lot of data, then we take that data
and there's usually a team of us,
and we go through pretty much steps
where we measure the data.
We try to predict
where's the problem at, where's the issue,
because a lot of times,
you may think it's one thing when it's something
completely different.
And we take that information
and we may create a micro app
which is usually access database
that's able to compile data,
spit it out faster to make sure it's more audible
and things like that.
For instance, working with,
we work with other defense organizations,
so that's anybody that falls under Department of Defense,
and they submit their monthly data
where it could've been,
they working on building this building.
All money is already appropriated and allocated
for certain things.
So once they send it in,
depending on when you send it in, it may hit 2013,
but it was really completed in 2014,
just how things work out.
So all that information will be on a file.
How much money they spent,
where,
what they're building.
Everything has a place.
Like we could read a specific line of accounting
and know exactly what it is.
So those are the files that are coming in,
and they can have thousands of lines of data on it.