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Caterpillar, Inc. Senior Accounting Consultant in Peoria, Illinois

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.

The Opportunity

Caterpillar’s Resource Industries Sales, Services & Technology (RISST) team has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Accounting Consultant. This highly motivated individual contributor will provide insights to the business related to large deals, including but not limited to Americas Large Deal support, Post Close Analysis, regional profit targets and dashboards. This position will also work closely with other workstreams and functional areas across Resource Industries.

What You Will Do:

  • Business partner and trusted adviser supporting Large Deal Analysis.

  • Drive business decisions through insightful analysis of customer needs and product profitability.

  • Provide business insights and support for the Resource Industries Go-to-Market (Commercial) organizations, including pricing, sales variance and variable margin analysis and support/proposal profitability analysis.

  • Commercial support, including pricing and sales variance strategy, deal support and recommendation.

  • Create process to measure deal performance and lifecycle analysis.

  • Analyze and critique information for conformance with US and local GAAP, corporate guidelines, and reasonability levels.

What You Have:

  • Education/Experience: This position typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree in accounting, finance, or business-related degree and 8+ years of job-related experience.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Top Candidates Will Also Have:

  • Strong communication skills, intellectual curiosity, and interpersonal skills.

  • Initiative, leadership, good judgment, and accountability.

  • Ability to resolve issues independently and take ownership of responsibilities.

  • Excellent business acumen along with familiarity with tools such as Excel, Power BI, Snowflake.

Additional Information:

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 .

Employee benefit details:

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.

Here you earn more than just an hourly wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) and potential for a yearly performance bonus.

Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).

Final details

Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.

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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:

April 23, 2024 - May 5, 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.

Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community (http://flows.beamery.com/caterpillarinc/talcom) .

There’s more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar.

Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee’s contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we’ve built.

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