.**Career Area:**:Accounting**Job Description:**:**Here, mobility, growth and innovation matter.**Finance careers—and leadership opportunities—at Caterpillar run the gamut. You may find your home in corporate cash and accounts receivable, commodity and foreign currency risk assessment, or property and casualty insurance. Or perhaps subsidiary funding, dealer/supplier financing or employee benefits fund management is where your passion lies.You'll have plenty of opportunities to find your ideal fit. Through our informal professional development program, you'll likely spend your first year on an assignment learning the fundamentals. In year two, you'll make it yours. By year three or four, you may be ready to move to something new. We want you to find the area that best matches your interests and our needs. And we want you to make every finance job you hold better, too, so we encourage you to innovate, improve and find ways to do work that really matters.**JOB PURPOSE**:To perform entry-level staff accounting functions that support business processes and provide experience with Caterpillar accounting practices.**JOB RELATED STATISTICS**:Indeterminate**JOB DUTIES**:From the outset, incumbent will be expected to be a contributing performer, doing staff level accounting work that supports business processes. Additionally, this position will:- gain an understanding of Caterpillar's business and accounting practices, systems and procedures; - provide assistance to a project team or others in the work group.Accountants will be exposed to a variety of accounting functions and will accomplish a high level of compilation and basic analysis work, reviewing clerical input and generating reports. The accountant identifies relevant data and data sources, gathers and analyzes the information, and provides feedback. Typically, decisions will impact relatively low risk issues and will be reviewed by a supervisor. A supervisor will direct work, but this position does not require close supervision to be effective.Possible areas of responsibility are varied, including:- Financial accounting including preparation of journal entries, variance analysis and account reconciliations- Request for investment process manager- Capital Management System Administrator- Budget Analysis & forecast for the lines of depreciation, Assets Disposals & Capital expenditures- Enterprise Component Capacity Planning process Manager- Construction in Process follow up & management- development and maintenance of internal controls, including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) control documentationPossible areas of support could include:- Inventory Accounting & Plant Support- Sales / Cost of Sales Accounting- General Ledger / Legal Entity Reporting & Analysis- Capital Assets Accounting- Financial Systems- SOX Compliance- Statutory GAAP, Tax accounting, General Accounting, and Tax & Trade Compliance (outside the U.S.)The variety of accounting tasks ranges from low to medium complexity
