Career Area:
Legal
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.
When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don't just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in - the roads, hospitals, homes and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer's needs.
Purpose :
To manage the business process development, improvement, and ongoing support of Caterpillar's Enterprise Ethics & Compliance Program within the Division. To manage and provide centralized business resources for business operations to mitigate the risks of fraud and regulatory non-compliance in alignment with Corporate objectives. This position will have dotted-line reporting and accountability to the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer.
JOB DUTIES:
This position is responsible for all Compliance Risks associated with Caterpillar's Enterprise Ethics & Compliance Program.
Consistent with Caterpillar's Enterprise Ethics & Compliance Program, the incumbent will lead the development and ensure implementation of the ethics and compliance program within the Division to include:
Provide leadership and support to leaders in fostering and enhancing a values-based culture.
Provide leadership to actively interface and collaborate with all Compliance Risk process partners and act as an advisor to senior management for interpreting, analyzing, using and effectively responding to compliance information.
Develop and maintain a close working relationship and coordination with the Corporate Compliance Attorneys, the General Manager responsible for Compliance and the Business Manager to ensure effective, efficient and compliant business processes, annual action plans and metrics for the Division.
Establish and maintain strong partnering relationships with all risk owners in Caterpillar's Ethics & Compliance Program; develop and maintain a close working relationship and coordination with the Office of Business Practices.
Lead the development and implementation of worldwide controls/processes to ensure compliance with Caterpillar's Code, policies and procedures, and applicable laws by the Division.
Support in leading the Division's annual Ethics & Compliance Risk Assessment in coordination with the Business Risk Management (BRM) process; identify key compliance risks and how they impact the Division.
Deliver targeted communications on the Ethics & Compliance Program to the Division.
Work with the HR Department to ensure completion of required Ethics & Compliance training (Annual Assessment & Questionnaire, required, job role, leadership) within the Division.
Oversee the development and timely completion of any applicable remediation plans to correct the issues identified through the course of a compliance audit, assessment or OBP investigation.
Work with the export compliance team and implement processes and resources centrally and regionally to ensure compliance with global trade regulations and U.S. export controls and Enterprise procedures.
Oversee the coordination of worldwide policies and procedures with those of the Enterprise.
Provide leadership in developing relationships with the appropriate departments to ensure clear and effective implementation of policies.
Coordinate with process partners to identify and prioritize key compliance risks to the Division and develop action plans to support the most effective integration of compliance processes.
Design, develop, implement, monitor, and report compliance metrics to demonstrate Ethics & Compliance Program effectiveness within the Division. Provide reports to senior leaders, to the Office of Business Practices and to Risk Owners as required.
Serve as a key contact, where appropriate, for Corporate Compliance Audits and Assessments.
Set the tone on communications and play a key role delivering ethics and compliance learning needs within the Division.
Participate in process-partner projects to improve overall ethics and compliance as well as culture alignment with Our Values in Action.
Provide visibility of compliance issues/concerns to the Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Office of Business Practices, Divisional leadership, and Risk Owners.
Identify process improvement opportunities for providing transparent transactional processes to increase the likelihood of consistent ethical behavior of employees at all levels.
Coordinate with the appropriate Managers to provide Our Values in Action training to employees and timely training to new employees.
Responsible for other functions designated from time to time that supports the Office of Business Practices overall objective of fostering and enhancing Caterpillar's ethical culture through an effective Ethics & Compliance Program.
Participate / attend global and regional meetings in support of the Caterpillar's Enterprise Ethics and Compliance Program.
The position's primary customers are internal. Typical process partners include the Office of Business Practices, Enterprise and Regional Risk Owners, and compliance risk contacts (subject matter experts) within the Division. The incumbent will work directly with senior leadership within the Division on the Ethics & Compliance strategy for the Division. The position often confronts complex issues or problems, which require careful analysis, diagnosis, and confidentiality. The incumbent may need to modify existing approaches or develop new solutions. The incumbent sets priorities and establishes a work plan in order to complete broadly defined assignments and achieve desired results.
The position will require some (approx 20%) travel, as the above-mentioned processes and responsibilities need to be implemented throughout 's global operations.
BACKGROUND/EXPERIENCE:
The position requires thorough knowledge of the Division's business processes. Broad company knowledge and an understanding of Caterpillar's Ethics & Compliance Program, Our Values in Action, and the Enterprise Policies and Procedures are also required. The position requires a university degree or equivalent experience. In addition, 10 to 15 years of progressively responsible job-related experience is desired. Excellent interpersonal skills, high integrity, and good judgment are required in order to deal with confidential issues, develop others, or persuade others inside and outside the department to take specific actions needed to support the Enterprise and Division.
Additional Information:
This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers .
Employee benefit details:
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
Here you earn more than just an hourly wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of a monthly bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Final details
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