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.

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

Our common values and focus on inclusion and respect drive the decisions made by our company, teams and people. This is why we are committed to hiring and building diverse teams representative of the customers we serve globally. When you join our team, you can apply your unique life and job experiences and work in an environment where your ideas are heard, your contributions are celebrated, and your whole-self matters.

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.

About Cat Financial

Cat Financial is a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For more than 40 years, Cat Financial has provided a wide range of financing solutions to customers and Cat® dealers for machines, engines, Solar® gas turbines, genuine Cat parts and services. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Cat Financial serves customers globally with offices and subsidiaries located throughout North and South America, Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa. Visit cat.com to learn more about Cat Financial.

Role Definition
Manages the day-to-day operations in specific finance process areas to enhance systems, processes, and analytics to drive operational effectiveness and efficiency.

Responsibilities
•    Defines key processes metrics across finance area(s) and putting measurement in place to track/monitor/report.
•    Leads a specific finance process area function to support operations, identify issues, and implement effective programs and strategies.
•    Collaborates globally, working with both internal and external providers to improve, automate, and maintain business processes.
•    Evaluates and recommends technology improvements in partnership with Global Operations Leads.

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors
Business Process Design: Knowledge of business process design; ability to develop appropriate techniques to re-examine key processes and focus on optimizing organizational performance.
Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Carries out business process design tasks with some supervision and coaching.
•    Uses a variety of business process design tools and techniques.
•    Examines, interprets, and explains work-flow materials and documentation.
•    Documents common obstacles and barriers for effective implementation.
•    Analyzes a process and associated business logic and offers recommendations based on analysis.

Operational Functions: Knowledge of major functional processes and associated operating requirements; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Works to resolve obstacles related to goals of own department.
•    Documents regulatory and reporting requirements.
•    Assesses situations based on awareness of the goals and operating issues of own department.
•    Seeks guidance when assigned goals conflict with departmental goals or overall strategy.
•    Carries out responsibilities that contribute to role of own department within the organization.

Coaching Others: Knowledge of coaching and mentoring concepts and methods; ability to encourage, motivate, and guide individuals in learning and improving effectiveness.
Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Determines how coaching can be applied to a situation.
•    Coaches others to improve their skills.
•    Observes skill practice; offers constructive feedback.
•    Offers suggestions for performance or process improvement in own unit.
•    Creates skill-practice opportunities for subject of coaching.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.
•    Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
•    Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
•    Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
•    Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.

Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Provides prompt and effective responses to client requests and interactions.
•    Monitors client satisfaction levels on a regular basis.
•    Alerts own team to problems in client satisfaction.
•    Differentiates the roles and responsibilities in a business relationship.
•    Works with clients to address critical issues and resolve major problems.

Managing Change: Knowledge of the necessity to adapt self and team to evolving business needs; ability to develop and implement new ideas and initiatives that improve the organization's performance in light of new requirements.
Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Encourages exploration of non-traditional ideas by team members.
•    Employs sound methods of planning, introducing, and following through on change.
•    Reinforces outcomes of change programs to increase the likelihood that they will take hold.
•    Articulates the rationale for, and positive and negative consequences of change so as to help others adapt.
•    Carries out difficult interpersonal responsibilities professionally and effectively.

Business Intelligence: Knowledge of business intelligence; ability to utilize business processes and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data that helps the organization make better business decisions.
Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Works on business intelligence projects in a limited environment.
•    Follows relevant BI ethics codes, standards, policies and practices.
•    Researches and reports on beneficial BI usage in different departments or environments.
•    Uses BI tools to produce management reports.
•    Assists in the application of BI to new business situations.

Software as a Service (SaaS): Knowledge of Software as a Service (SaaS) concepts and technologies; ability to apply these to the design, development, implementation, and management of computing products.
Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Works with the implementation and support of an outsourced business application.
•    Follows established procedures in defining client requirements for SaaS.
•    Documents and resolves basic problems related to user provisioning.
•    Under supervision, implements partitions for applications serving multiple businesses and users.
•    Highlights the relationship to other cloud computing services and service functions.

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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Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. 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.

Posting Dates:

October 3, 2024 - October 10, 2024

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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