Perform staff accounting functions that support Centre of excellence business processes and gain experience with Caterpillar accounting practices.
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.
- Learn and develop skills which result from the practical application of basic accounting knowledge, and
- Aid 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 analyses 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.
- Cost system maintenance
- Normals machine rate development
- Abnormals identification reporting
- Prime product and/or component cost monitoring analysis
- Operations and/or product group budgeting and expense analysis
- Capital expenditure forecasting and reporting
- Standard and current cost grief resolution
- Support management with analysis for decision making in various projects and cost reduction programs
- New product Introduction (NPI) comprehensive support which includes determining discounted cash flow (DCF) and Internal rate of return of different projects
- The variety of accounting tasks ranges from low to medium complexity
- Interaction outside the workgroup is typically with peers
- As the Accountant gains experience, he/she will develop a technical understanding of more complex accounting issues and expand their decision-making capability
- Accountants will continuously learn through training and experience
- Learning at this level will focus on methods, processes and systems applied to accounting, developing communications skills, and building knowledge of Caterpillar s businesses, products, suppliers and customers
Background/Experience
- Requires a certified accountant (CA/CMA) with college degree in accounting and 3-5 years of experience in accounting preferably in a manufacturing environment.
- Part Qualified with 7 years of experience, postgraduate or an MBA.
- Good accounting background, thorough knowledge of accounting flow and related methods of recording in the General Ledger and knowledge in SAP environment (FI, MM CO Module).
- Effective communications skills and a good understanding of computer systems especially in MS-Office and Financial Analytics Tool (Power BI, Tableau, Power Apps. etc).
- Must demonstrate strong leadership, initiative, inter-personal skills, and the ability to communicate effectively.
