Career Area:
Finance
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.
The Opportunity:
We have an exciting opportunity for an Accounting Manager supporting Solar Turbines Customer Services. In this role, you will lead a team responsible to partner with the business to solve complex challenges, and oversee our data systems, process improvements and analytics in addition to champion our global finance strategy. The position supports Customer Services leadership and worldwide overhaul operations with Solar Turbines.
What You Will Do:
- Manage a staff of four to five direct reports through coaching and guiding daily activities
- Lead Customer Services financial processes supporting the worldwide overhaul business
- Present high-level story to senior leadership, while also understanding the underlying details
- Sponsor projects to standardize and simplify processes by leveraging our digital capabilities
- Partner with the business to provide deeper strategic insights and solve challenges with a customer-oriented mindset
- Influence our finance culture by demonstrating desired behaviors, including but not limited to continuous improvement and learning
What You Have:
- Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- Leadership: Use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing, and achieving objectives while having a long-term perspective of the future state of things and how to get there
- Effective Communication: Utilize 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
- Managing People: Lead successful teams, and diligently address issues related to performance and conflicts at the workplace
- Vision for Change: See opportunities for change and establish the big picture vision as well as drive thinking and planning towards a long-term strategic goal
- Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understand the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high level of precision
- Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; capacity to determine root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions to resolve those problems
- Manage Multiple Priorities: Manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation
- Decision Making: Capable of accurately analyzing situations and reaching productive decisions based on informed judgment
- Financial Planning & Analysis: Knowledge of processes, methods, and tools for financial reporting; ability to apply finance knowledge appropriately to diverse situations as well as read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from financial and numerical material
Domestic relocation offered
Posting Dates:
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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