Manager Accounting Full Time

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.

We are seeking a skilled Manager Accounts Payable to join our team who will have the opportunity to champion us for GLBL BusSvcs India AP ITP team, Global Finance services Division.

As an integral part of the Invoice to Pay Center of Excellence, specifically focused on Operation. The candidate will support execution of our Global Invoice to Pay operations within the Global Business Services scope, with additional focus on standardization, optimization and digitalization of Invoice-to-Pay processes (ITP).

The incumbent would be expected to manage accurate and timely recording, analysis, and communication of business information for all Caterpillar Inc. facilities and selected subsidiaries. Provides guidance on complex issues related to procurement, logistics, and related recording to the financial systems.

The preference for this role is to be based out of Whitefield Office, Bangalore, India with No remote working

What You Will Do:

Job Roles and Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and direction with both technical and administrative responsibilities for a team of individual contributors.
• Overall payment and verification practices have been established, but there is a continual need to interpret, coordinate and change recording activities resulting from constantly changing business conditions.
• This job role mainly focuses on payables and payment management processes.
• Ideal candidate should also have prior experience in reviewing freight contracts and validating the invoices from service providers with relevant agreement terms and contracted rates.
• Flexibility to work in US shift is required.

Primary Responsibilities Are Divided Into Three Areas:

• Managing People:
• Manages a team of management personnel and their related workload. Sets expectations and prioritizes work and projects. Analyses staff-provided data for decision making at a summary level.
• Motivates team members to work towards individual and team goals and fosters an environment of teamwork and cooperation.
• Evaluates and reports on staff performance, participates in employee selection to ensure qualified candidates are selected to benefit the enterprise, provides career guidance and training direction, ensures compliance with personnel practices, and promotes team rewards and successes to ensure employee engagement to meet corporate strategic goals.
• Provides technical guidance and expertise.
• Managing Expectations:
• Counsels and actively participates in customer’s strategic business initiatives.
• Identifies, establishes, prioritizes, and communicates goals and objectives of team.
• Ensures team meets new and existing performance targets rapidly and effectively through continuous process improvement.
• Proactively interacts with customers to develop, understand, and manage customer requirements and expectations.
• Provides services, makes recommendations, and manages costs.
• Communicates effectively within the team and with all internal and external customers, including presentations to all levels of management.
• Resolves customer’s issues independently.
• Ensures team’s focus is on cost reduction as well as improving product/process quality.
• Managing Complex Work:
• Provides counsel and technical guidance and expertise on complex business issues related to various supply chain processes.
• Works with customers and informational technology teams to establish system priorities.
• Leads initiatives and makes decisions to represent the team with both customers and internal team members (i.e. process improvements, new business requirements).
• Provides creative solutions that challenge traditional methods ensuring processes are adaptive, flexible, and less complex to enhance team and customer performance, working with information technology to make changes to existing systems.
• Investigates new technology to recommend cost effective tools to improve customer satisfaction and reduce processing costs.
• Partners with managed service provider for completion of routine transactional work and reviews monthly performance metrics.
• Demonstrates a comprehensive knowledge of Caterpillar’s entire supply chain.
• Limited travel required (less than 5% of working time).

What You Will Have:

• Degree in accounting with at least 10 years of accounting experience.
• Incumbent must demonstrate knowledge of policies and procedures, plus initiative, leadership,
• Excellent analytical skills, problem solving, good judgment and superior communication skills.
• Accounting skills and a strong knowledge of internal controls is required. Excellent interpersonal skills are required to deal with highly sensitive issues, develop others or persuade others inside and outside the department to take specific actions.
• SAP experience is preferred.

Skills Desired:

Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Contributes to short-term operational plans.
• Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.
• Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.
• Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.
• Under guidance, develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.

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 Extensive Experience:

• Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.
• Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.
• Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.
• Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.
• Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.
• Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.

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.

Judgment and Decision Making: Knowledge of the decision-making process; ability to carefully evaluate the impact of emerging business situations and choose the best path forward communicating actions and activities that maximize organizational performance.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Discerns between “signal” and “noise” when considering courses of action.
• Selects the right activities to work on from a range of competing priorities.
• Stands by decisions in the face of conflict or unexpected outcome.
• Makes the transition from evaluation to conclusion readily and in a timely manner.
• Revisits decisions when appropriate, but infrequently and without disrupting focus.

Managing People: Knowledge of processes involved in managing people; ability to lead successful teams, and diligently address issues related to performance and conflicts at the workplace.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Assesses the amount of time and resources needed to accomplish a task; delegates work accordingly.
• Explains how the team’s work contributes to the success of the organization; creates a shared vision.
• Reviews progress and performance of employees; addresses bottlenecks or concerns impending employee growth.
• Uses multiple channels such as meetings, e-mails, newsletters to communicate important messages with the team regularly.
• Works with employees to set and define performance standards and career development goals; supports in achieving them.

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 Analysis: Knowledge of tools and approaches of financial analysis; ability to read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from financial and numerical material.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Applies principles used to evaluate the economics of investment decisions.
• Interprets major types of financial statements issued by the organization.
• Utilizes basic qualitative and quantitative tools and techniques with proficiency.
• Works with a specific financial analysis tool set.
• Implements valid financial analysis aligned with key criteria.

Financial Reporting: Knowledge of processes, methods, and tools of financial reporting; ability to create and maintain accurate and thorough financial reports.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Follows organizational practices and guidelines for product profitability reporting.
• Analyzes errors or inaccuracies in financial reports.
• Uses basic tools to create simple financial reports.
• Monitors compliance with organizational standards for financial report writing.
• Implements organizational methods and procedures for financial report writing

What You Will Get:

• Work Life Harmony
• Earned and medical leave.
• Relocation assistance

Holistic Development

• Personal and professional development through Caterpillar ‘s employee resource groups across the globe
• Career developments opportunities with global prospects

Health and Wellness

• Medical coverage -Medical, life and personal accident coverage
• Employee mental wellness assistance program

Financial Wellness

• Employee investment plan
• Pay for performance -Annual incentive Bonus plan.

Additional Information:

Caterpillar is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status; however, 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

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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