Senior Finance Analyst

Overview

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.

Caterpillar has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Finance Analyst where you will be responsible for delivering high quality finance operations support to our Dealers while assisting the development, implementation, and management of a portfolio of financing solutions that drive our Enterprise Strategy. Being responsible for your scope of work, you will receive all the support to be innovative to bring positive change to your work and deliver them at the highest standard.

The Team:

EAME Distribution’s mission is to deliver superior customer experience, profitable market leadership and service growth through industry - best distribution performance. Our 3 strategic priorities are Service growth, Dealer Excellence and Talent & Culture. As the EAME Finance Team, we provide governance and administration of Cat® dealers across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Eurasia.

Role Definition:
As the senior person in the team, the incumbent will provide support to leadership in delivering on the team’s goals. The role provides general leadership on all projects within the team while supporting other team members to deliver on their responsibilities.

Financing Solutions

• Create relationship with Dealers to understand their financing needs
• Build and maintain relationships with financing partners
• Lead discussions with financing partners and dealers to develop and implement financing solutions.
• Provide governance on all financing solutions projects
• Support all monthly drawdown requirements and the renewal of existing financing solutions

Operational Support

• Execute all operational tasks as assigned:
  Field Follow, RFPs, Extended Payment Terms, etc.
• Lead operational efficiency efforts within the team including gathering voice of stakeholders and driving improvement ideas
• Execute prioritized lean projects as assigned
• Provide governance of all lean initiatives within the team, communicating with senior leaders and other stakeholders on Lean status and highlighting areas requiring support

Team Support

• Work with different teams/ stakeholders to gather and report on information about the Team’s progress on our goals
• Update team’s dashboard and report to leadership

Others

The incumbent will be called upon from time to time to support various projects within the organization

What

You Will Have:

• Accuracy and Attention to Detail
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  Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
• Communicating Complex Concepts
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  Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.
• Problem Solving
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  Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
• Relationship Management
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  Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
• Planning and Organizing
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  Knowledge of the process of planning and arranging tasks and resources; ability to plan and organize both time and resources to get things completed while structuring and maintaining work in a systematic and highly methodical way.
• Financial Markets
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  Knowledge of the products, types, competitors, customer base, major issues and regulatory considerations in the financial markets; ability to apply financial market knowledge to various business environments.
• Financial…