Accounting Manager

**Career Area**:Accounting**:
**It's not just about the money. It's about helping people succeed.**

The design, manufacture, sale and support of Cat® products: There are investments and financial risks at every link in our value chain. That's why having an efficient finance team is important. And that's why we're not just looking for finance experts, but people who are effective communicators and leaders who know how to make decisions, so they can help us move forward intelligently and ethically. You will be successful here if:

- Work with a lot of integrity.
- He brings energy and tenacity and is willing to learn every day.
- You want to be a trusted advisor.
- Build strong relationships with the people you serve.

**Job Purpose**:
To manage the accurate and timely recording, summarization, and (if applicable) transmittal of all business information for the facilities or areas assigned.

**Job Duties**:
Though organizations vary, incumbent typically provides first level of supervision with both technical and administrative responsibility for a team of salaried and management staff. This could be in a specialized area (General Ledger, Inventory) for a larger organization or in a general area (Cost Accounting, Financial Accounting) for a smaller unit (e.g. a facility/plant within the parent company). Overall accounting policies have been prescribed, but there is a continual need to interpret, coordinate and record activities resulting from constantly changing business conditions. Incumbent has a comprehensive knowledge of the organization’s accounting processes & systems.

Reporting directly to the incumbent are various levels of management accountants and salaried support positions.

Primary responsibilities of the Accounting Supervisor II are divided into three areas:
**Managing People**:

- Works with selected financial systems, interpreting and adhering to Caterpillar’s general accounting practices and procedures, and supervises salaried and management personnel who perform accounting functions of varying complexity.
- Manages a small team and their related workload, prioritizes projects, assigns and reviews work, and controls the daily operating environment.
- Evaluates and reports on staff performance, participates in employee selection, provides career guidance and training direction, complies with personnel practices, and promotes team rewards and successes.
- Provides technical guidance and expertise to current team.
- Motivates team members to work towards individual and team goals and objectives and fosters an environment of teamwork and cooperation.

**Managing Expectations**:

- Communicates effectively within the team and with internal and external customers and data providers.
- Understands and manages customer requirements and expectations.
- Serves as liaison between customer, team and data providers.
- Identifies and communicates goals and objectives of team.
- Provides services, makes recommendations and manages costs.

**Performing Complex Staff Work**:

- Provides technical guidance and expertise on highly complex accounting issues such as preparing financial results analysis for upper level management, providing forecast data, etc.
- Leads initiatives outside team to represent the group (e.g. documenting processes, making presentations).
- Demonstrates a comprehensive knowledge of Caterpillar’s businesses, products, suppliers and customers.

**Background / Experience**:

- University degree, preferably in accounting.
- Non-accounting degree requires minimum of 18 hours of college level accounting or approved Accounting certification. All approved certifications can be found on Finance Services Division Accounting Certification website.
- Must have proven record of process and accomplishments at lower levels.
- Must demonstrate initiative, leadership, good judgment and superior communication skills.
- Strong analytical, problem solving and human relations skills also are necessary.
- 5-7 years of accounting experience is recommended.
- Fluent English

**Final Details**:
**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.**

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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