Accounting Supervisor

**Career Area**:Accounting**:
**Here, mobility, growth and innovation matter.**:
Finance careers—and leadership opportunities—at Caterpillar run the gamut. You may find your home in corporate cash and accounts receivable, commodity and foreign currency risk assessment, or property and casualty insurance. Or perhaps subsidiary funding, dealer/supplier financing or employee benefits fund management is where your passion lies.

You’ll have plenty of opportunities to find your ideal fit. Through our informal professional development program, you’ll likely spend your first year on an assignment learning the fundamentals. In year two, you’ll make it yours. By year three or four, you may be ready to move to something new. We want you to find the area that best matches your interests and our needs. And we want you to make every finance job you hold better, too, so we encourage you to innovate, improve and find ways to do work that really matters.

**JOB PURPOSE**:
To manage the accurate and timely recording, reporting, and analysis of all business information for the facilities or areas assigned, managing the efforts of the team, and innovating and improving the processes in place to make the work more efficient.

**JOB DUTIES MAY INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO**:

- Work with selected financial systems, interpreting and adhering to Caterpillar’s general accounting practices and procedures.
- Manage a CAT and Third-Party team, and their related workload, prioritizing projects, assigning and reviewing work, and controlling the daily operating environment.
- Evaluate and report on staff performance, participate in employee selections, provide career guidance and training direction, comply with personnel practices, and promote team rewards and successes.
- Provides technical guidance and expertise to team.
- Motivate team members to work towards individual and team goals and objectives, fostering an environment of teamwork and cooperation.
- Communicate effectively within the team and with internal and external customers and data providers.
- Understand and manage customer requirements and expectations. Serve as liaison between customer, team, and data providers.
- Identify and communicate goals and objectives of team.
- Provide services, make recommendations, and manage costs.
- Provide technical guidance and expertise on highly complex accounting issues such as preparing financial results analysis for upper-level management, providing forecast data, etc.
- Lead initiatives outside team to represent the group, (e.g., documenting processes, making presentations).
- Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of Caterpillar’s businesses, products, suppliers and customers.
- You will have the opportunity to become one of our future business leaders. You will be in a position to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills, as well as, high levels of leadership and initiative.

**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS**:

- 4-5 year Degree in Accounting or equivalent.
- Fluent English
- Must demonstrate initiative, leadership, good judgment and superior communication skills. Strong analytical, decision making, problem solving, and human relations skills also are necessary.

**DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Professional Certification (Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA) or equivalent)
- 5 to 7 years of Accounting experience.
- Accounting experience at a large public accounting firm or a Fortune 500 company.
- MBA or Master’s Degree in Accounting (or equivalent)

**The Caterpillar Code of Conduct states that we will select and place employees based on their qualifications for the job to be performed, without regard to race, religion, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age or disability. In this company we do not request pregnancy tests, nor HIV tests as requirements for employment entry, permanence or promotion.**

**Final details**

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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