Job Description
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.
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.
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
- Exercise decision-making authority to prepare, review, book, and fund financial transactions.
Responsibilities
- Collecting and checking documents, such as corporate documents and signing authority documentation, to ensure legal enforceability.
- Ensuring transactions are correctly documented and booked correctly into the system of record.
- Supporting and coordinating workflow for the funding processes.
- Generating regular and ad-hoc reports of the fund administration and distributing to dealers and vendors.
Skill Descriptors
Finance and Accounting: Knowledge of finance and accounting practices, financial analysis, and reporting; ability to apply finance knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge: •Works with general ledger accounts.
•Differentiates between capital investments and expenses.
•Uses finance and accounting systems, procedures and practices.
•Interprets profit and loss statements, balance sheets and financial forecasts.
•Resolves questions about finance and accounting policies and practices.
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.
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.
Initiative: Being proactive and committing to action on self-identified job responsibilities and challenges; ability to seek out work and the drive to accomplish goals.
Level Working Knowledge: •Identifies and exploits own strengths; minimizes limitations.
•Provides appropriate degrees of attention to both personal and professional priorities.
•Explains how own motivation relates to the workplace.
•Utilizes available tools or approaches for increasing knowledge of self-motivation.
•Learns and uses resources the organization has to assess and enhance team motivation.
Taking Ownership: Knowledge of the current situation or issue at hand; ability to take full personal responsibility or ownership for assignments, activities, decisions and results.
Level Working Knowledge: •Acknowledges and corrects mistakes; doesn't make excuses or diffuse blame for errors.
•Takes personal ownership of and strives to meet assigned accountability expectations.
•Delivers work quality and quantity in addition to meeting deadlines.
•Demonstrates commitment to delivering on all promises as a credible, trusted organizational representative.
•Presents problems or issues and simultaneously provides recommended solutions.
Relationship Building: Knowledge of the importance of creating positive relationships within the team and ability to develop trusting relationships by valuing others' concerns and contributions.
Level Working Knowledge: •Responds sensitively to other's concerns.
•Develops trust and credibility by acting in a consistent, genuine manner.
•Demonstrates a personal commitment to contributing to others' well being.
•Maintains appropriate distance as warranted by culture and level.
•Secures followers when leading initiatives.
Financial Instruments: Knowledge of the concepts, types and applications of financial instruments; ability to perform analyses, management and other related tasks associated with financial service business.
Level Basic Understanding: •Names and categorizes different types of financial instruments.
•Describes the key features of debt, equity and derivative instruments.
•Differentiates financial assets and financial instruments.
•Lists major laws and regulations related to financial instruments.
Order Processing - Financial Products: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques, and applications associated with order processing; ability to process financial products with high levels of accuracy.
Level Working Knowledge: •Completes major tasks involved in the processing of financial product orders.
•Utilizes equipment and core applications to complete financial product orders.
•Processes limited amounts of detailed financial product orders with a high level of accuracy.
•Applies checklists to ensure that financial product orders are fulfilled without errors.
•Aligns the development and implementation of order processing with the bank's objectives.
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.
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
Posting Dates: September 17, 2024 - September 24, 2024
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
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