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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 and reporting as directed by management with supervision.

Responsibilities
•    Maintaining financial records in accordance with GAAP and organizational standards.
•    Posting entries, verifying and reconciling input to financial reporting systems.
•    Performing balance sheet and P&L reconciliations.
•    Research and resolve financial statement discrepancies, with supervision, by working with other departments.

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: 
•    Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.
•    Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
•    Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.
•    Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.
•    Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.

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 Basic Understanding: 
•    Names specific tools or techniques that can be used to support the analytical thinking process.
•    Describes specific software applications or products used for business analytics.
•    Gives examples of how analytical thinking has been used to resolve problems.
•    Helps others research and learn more about business analytics tools and applications.

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 Basic Understanding: 
•    Explains basic concepts of time and priority management.
•    Seeks guidance in detecting and addressing priority conflicts.
•    States own business priorities.
•    Describes team or unit 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 Record Keeping: Knowledge of financial record keeping processes, methods, and tools; ability to maintain accurate and thorough records of financial transactions.
Level Basic Understanding: 
•    Lists the reports used by the organization that depend on accurate financial records.
•    Describes the purpose and value of accurate financial record keeping.
•    Explains basic methods for financial record keeping.
•    Identifies basic financial record keeping tools.

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