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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.

Role Definition

Provides timely and accurate financial record keeping, reporting and analysis as directed by management. This position requires working onsite 5 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining and consolidating financial records in accordance with GAAP and organizational standards.

• Creating reports on financial performance for internal and external use.

• Creating and utilizing automated tools for the updating, analyzing and reporting of consolidated financial results.

• Support business analysis, process improvements and take part in special projects and ad hoc requests.

Degree Requirement

Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Processes large quantities of detailed information with high accuracy and productivity.

• Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.

• Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
Level Working Knowledge: 

• Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.

• Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.

• Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.

• Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Level Working Knowledge:

•   Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.

•   Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.

•   Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.

•   Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.

•   Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.

Level Working Knowledge:

•   Completes current work according to assigned priorities.

• Handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities.

• Responds to day-to-day operational priorities while still making progress on project work.

• Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Working Knowledge: 

• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.

• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.

• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.

• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.

• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Accounting: Knowledge of accounting methods, processes, and tools; ability to maintain and prepare financial statements and reports using accounting methods and processes.

Level Working Knowledge:

•   Utilizes cost monitoring practices, techniques and considerations.

•   Works with financial transactions and related documentation within the organization.

•   Participates in accounting practices of classifying and recording financial data.

•   Maintains existing charts of accounts.

•   Follows regulations for entering and reporting the financial content in major accounting systems.

Financial Analysis: Knowledge of tools and approaches of financial analysis; ability to read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from financial and numerical material.
Level Working Knowledge: 

• Interprets major types of financial statements issued by the organization.

• Utilizes basic qualitative and quantitative tools and techniques with proficiency.

• Works with a specific financial analysis tool set.

• Implements valid financial analysis aligned with key criteria.

Financial Reporting: Knowledge of processes, methods, and tools of financial reporting; ability to create and maintain accurate and thorough financial reports.

Level Working Knowledge:

•   Follows organizational practices and guidelines for product profitability reporting.

•   Analyzes errors or inaccuracies in financial reports.

•   Uses basic tools to create simple financial reports.

•   Monitors compliance with organizational standards for financial report writing.

•   Implements organizational methods and procedures for financial report writing.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of "essential job functions" as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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