Senior Accountant - Cash Flow Reporting

Career Area:

Finance

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Cat Financial is a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off‑highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel‑electric locomotives. For more than 40 years, Cat Financial has provided a wide range of financing solutions to customers and Cat® dealers for machines, engines, Solar® gas turbines, genuine Cat parts and services. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Cat Financial serves customers globally with offices and subsidiaries located throughout North and South America, Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa.

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• Under broad direction, conduct a wide variety of intricate and complex accounting duties and projects with primary responsibilities over cash flow accounting and reporting.
• Assignments and work require a broad knowledge of accounting policies, practices, and procedures and a demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• This role has significant visibility to senior management and international teams throughout the reporting process. Attention to detail and the ability to meet and coordinate reporting timelines are key skills.
• Perform research independently and prepare recommendations for changes in policies, procedures, and disclosures to address accounting related changes in guidance, disclosure requirements, and changes in the business. Initiate and implement changes needed to accounting systems, processes, policies, and procedures.

A wide variety of responsibilities may exist within the various accounting units. Responsibilities vary, but may include one or more of the following duties:

• Under broad direction, performs a variety of intricate and complex accounting duties. Duties and responsibilities include preparing monthly cash flow statements, research on topics related to cash flow reporting, providing technical accounting support for cash flow reporting treatment of new and non‑recurring transactions, internal and external audit liaison, etc. requiring the use of in‑depth accounting knowledge. Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Duties and responsibilities may include complex accounting related to non‑standard transactions, digital transformation projects, internal and external audit liaison, and disclosure benchmarking, requiring the use of in‑depth accounting knowledge, practices and principles as well as ingenuity and originality.
• Establish business partnerships across the organization and assist accounting in support of their business strategies.
• Organizing and coordinating quarterly reporting timeline and meetings with management and participating in meetings with senior management.
• May perform accounting policy and disclosure research and assist in solving complex accounting issues applying knowledge obtained per review of SEC and FASB guidance.
• Analyzes financial reports and records and may make studies or recommendations relative to the accounting of reserves, assets and expenditures.
• May review and verify the accuracy of journal entries and accounting classifications assigned to various records.
• When inconsistencies or problems are identified, provide management with timely recommendations to appropriately resolve.
• May make recommendations for changes in accounting policies and procedures to ensure compliance with US GAAP.
• Applies a broad knowledge of advanced accounting methods and procedures.
• May participate in accounting system development, determining specifications, testing and implementation.
• Reviews accounting work…