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Job Description
Role Definition
Primary financial and accounting support for a focus facility subsidiary or business unit team; providing business analysis cost analysis financial counsel and strategic planning/analysis support to the facility Management Team.
Responsibilities
Assist with business unit planning for upper level management including facility manager business unit manager
Cost and investment analysis for upper level management (i.e. plant rates ROI Pricing and Make/Buy studies).
Involved in consensus decision-making regarding the facility and/or business being supported.
Responsible for routine monthly reporting including profit center results and Rolling Business Management (RBM) as well as annual business processes including the business plan and executive reviews.
Academic and professional experience.
CA / CMA or any other equivalent degree from reputed institute / university.
7 year professional experience.
Experience of large multinational manufacturing organisation preferrable
Skill Descriptors
Business Acumen:
Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the companys business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Extensive Experience:
Designs the organizations planning processes and decision-making channels.
Explains business issues and trends of own business unit as compared to other business units.
Demonstrates a big picture understanding of the business its interrelationships and priorities.
Demonstrates strong foundation of business fundamentals measurement and business finance.
Develops business cases for own function; reviews and critiques cases for other functions.
Explains advantages and risks of using business simulations for critical business decisions.
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 Extensive Experience:
Develops refines and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.
Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.
Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.
Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.
Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals technical and business objectives.
Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.
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.
Level Extensive Experience:
Differentiates assumptions perspectives and historical frameworks.
Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative command or consensus.
Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.
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 Extensive Experience:
Reviews others writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
Communicates well downward upward and outward.
Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
Maintains focus on the topic at hand.
Organizational Leadership:
Knowledge of leadership concepts and ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting embracing and achieving objectives.
Level Working Knowledge:
Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate & attain desired behaviours; increases productivity.
Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence dominance persistence integrity confidence.
Manages own behaviours during interactions such as feedback giving to shape workplace events.
Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic democratic laissez-faire/free rein etc.
Employs leadership theories such as contingency and transactional and associated techniques.
Cost-Benefit Analysis:
Knowledge of the principles and tools used in cost-benefit analysis; ability to analyze the purpose and scope of a producer product process or project in terms of cost and benefits.
Level Working Knowledge:
Follows organizational guidelines and procedures for conducting a cost-benefit analysis.
Participates in the development of a cost-benefit analysis.
Calculates common measurements such as NPV and ROI.
Documents and measures direct and indirect costs and projected benefits.
Resolves common errors or omissions in developing the analysis.
Financial Analysis:
Knowledge of tools and approaches of financial analysis; ability to read interpret and draw accurate conclusions from financial and numerical material.
Level Extensive Experience:
Conducts and documents analyses of a variety of financial statements and indicators.
Anticipates the potential impact of decisions based on financial data analysis.
Oversees financial analysis to evaluate organizational and managerial performance.
Evaluates financial statements and ensures regulatory compliance.
Advises others on a variety of financial tools techniques and approaches.
Directs others work with financial and cash flow ratios and trend analyses.
Financial Forecasting and Modelling:
Knowledge of processes tools and techniques of financial forecasting and modelling; ability to explore and evaluate alternative financial scenarios and results.
Level Working Knowledge:
Explains the fundamentals of financial forecasting and modelling.
Resolves common forecasting problems in the application of modelling.
Uses basic features and facilities of a specific modelling tool.
Produces and reports the results of a forecast model to management.
Gathers information necessary to run a forecasting model.
Posting Dates:
August 19 2025 - August 26 2025Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
