About Caterpillar
As a Fortune 500 company, Caterpillar is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. The company also is a leading services provider through Caterpillar Financial Services, Caterpillar Remanufacturing Services, Caterpillar Logistics Services and Progress Rail Services.
Caterpillar has had operations in China for over 30 years. Headquartered in Beijing, it has nearly 20,000 employees in manufacturing and distribution across China. Our footprint includes 22 manufacturing facilities, 3 R&D centers, 6 branches and 3 logistics and parts centers.
Responsibilities:
Caterpillar has exciting opportunities for accountants who want to be challenged, are mobile and are interested in progressing through a number of supervisory and leadership assignments. As a Senior Accounting Supervisor you will provide supervision with both technical and administrative responsibility for a team of primarily accounting management staff. Overall accounting policies have been prescribed, but there is a continual need to interpret, coordinate and record activities resulting from constantly changing business conditions.
Job duties include but are not limited to:
- Managing People:
- Manages a team of supervisors and management personnel by setting expectations and prioritizing work and projects..
- Evaluates and reports on staff performance, participates in employee selection, provides career guidance and training direction, complies with personnel practices, and promotes team rewards and successes.
- Provides technical guidance and expertise.
- Motivates team members to work towards individual and team goals and objectives, and fosters an environment of teamwork and cooperation.
- Managing Expectations:
- Participates in the development and support of business strategies
- Communicates effectively within the team and with internal and external customers and data providers, including presentations to all levels of management.
- Proactively interacts with customers to develop, understand and manage customer requirements and expectations.
- Serves as liaison between customer, team and data providers and manages customer relationships.
- Identifies, establishes, prioritizes and communicates goals and objectives of team.
- Provides services, makes recommendations and manages costs.
- Performing Complex Staff Work:
- Provides technical guidance and expertise on business issues of global impact and/or high complexity such as financial reporting requirements for business units, capital asset reporting, parent company inventory, consolidation of forecasting processes.
- Lead initiatives and make decisions outside team to represent the group (e.g., process improvements and new business requirements.)
- More experienced candidates will:
- Lead team in more comprehensive, diverse activities that require interpreting and adhering to U.S. GAAP and Caterpillar’s accounting practices and procedures.
- Collaborates with internal and external parties as appropriate
- Convinces non-accountants of appropriate financial treatment on business issues
- Provides creative solutions that challenge traditional methods and processes
You will have the opportunity to become one of our future business leaders. You will be in a position to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well as high levels of leadership and initiative.
Required Qualifications:
- Requires a 4-year degree in Accounting (or International equivalent)
- Demonstrated high levels of initiative, leadership, good judgment and superior communication skills.
- Strong analytical, process improvement, problem solving and human relations skills
- Must have a comprehensive knowledge of Caterpillar’s businesses, products, suppliers and customers and a broad understanding of accounting and business processes/systems.
Desired Qualifications:
- 6-10 years of progressive accounting experience
- CPA / CMA certification (or International Equivalent)
- Prior supervisory experience
To apply:
Please submit your motivation letter and CV in Chinese and English to Ms. Janet Wang: Wang_Janet@cat.com. We look forward to your application!
Deadline: April 2nd, 2013
