Career Area:
Accounting
**Job Description**:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.
Typically provides supervision with both technical and administrative responsibility for a team of primarily management staff supporting manufacturing operations in the areas of financial, planning and analysis (FP&A), global inventory reporting, and various other financial and reporting processes. Overall accounting policies have been prescribed, but there is a continual need to interpret, coordinate and record activities resulting from constantly changing business conditions. In addition, this position identifies and develops specific accounting policies, practices, processes or systems to support business needs. Incumbent has a comprehensive knowledge of the organization's accounting processes & systems and typically has had prior supervisory experience.
Primary responsibilities are divided into three areas:
Managing People
- Supervises primarily management personnel who perform accounting functions of varying complexity including working with selected financial systems, interpreting and adhering to Caterpillar's accounting practices and procedures.
- Manages a team and their related workload, prioritizes projects, assigns and reviews work, and controls the daily operating environment.
- Evaluates and reports on staff performance, participates in employee selection, provides career guidance and training direction, complies with personnel practices, and promotes team rewards and successes.
- Provides technical guidance and expertise.
- Motivates team members to work towards individual and team goals and objectives, and fosters an environment of teamwork and cooperation.
Managing Expectations
- Participates in the development and support of business strategies
- Communicates effectively within the team and with internal and external customers and data providers, including presentations to all levels of management.
- Proactively interacts with customers to develop, understand and manage customer requirements and expectations.
- Serves as liaison between customer, team and data providers and manages customer relationships.
- Identifies, establishes, prioritizes and communicates goals and objectives of team.
- Provides services, makes recommendations and manages costs.
Supervising and Performing Complex Staff Work
- Provides technical guidance and expertise on business issues of global impact and/or high complexity such as financial reporting requirements for multiple legal entities, investment analysis, product cost studies, consolidations process and corporate financial results analysis, management of tax processes and customer requirements analysis.
- Leads initiatives and recommends decisions outside team to represent the group (e.g. process improvements, new business requirements).
- Demonstrates a comprehensive knowledge of Caterpillar's businesses, products, suppliers and customers.
- Collaborates with internal and external parties as appropriate
- Influences non-accountants of appropriate financial treatment on business issues
- Recommends creative solutions that challenge traditional methods and processes
BACKGROUND/EXPERIENCE: Requires a 4-year degree, in accounting. Minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar position Must have proven record of success and accomplishments. Preferably with prior supervisory experience. Must demonstrate initiative, leadership, good judgment and superior communication skills. Strong analytical, process improvement, problem solving and human relations skills are also necessary. 6-9 years of accounting experience is recommended. Must be bi-lingual (English, Spanish) and ability to effectively communicate with global workforce is essential. Legal representative experiences preferred.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).
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