Senior Accountant
Caterpillar
- Thiruvallur, Tamil Nadu
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Maintaining financial records in accordance with GAAP and organizational standards.
- Creating reports on financial performance for internal and external use.
- Creating and utilizing automated tools for the updating, analyzing and reporting of consolidated financial results.
Graduate Degree in Finance and Accounting or equivalent experience desiredSkill Descriptors
Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices.
- Processes large quantities of detailed information with high levels of accuracy.
- Productively balances speed and accuracy.
- Employs techniques for motivating personnel to meet or exceed accuracy goals.
- Implements a variety of cross-checking approaches and mechanisms.
- Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.
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.
Level Working Knowledge:
- Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.
- Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
- Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
- Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
- Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.
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.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities.
- Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities.
- Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments.
- Works with or leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary.
- Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work.
- Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Supervises all aspects of an accounting function.
- Consults on the effectiveness and efficiency of accounting process flow.
- Oversees the process and data flow between accounting systems and sub-systems.
- Develops an accounting system for the management of assets, liabilities and transactions.
- Formulates accounting practices for general ledger, A-P, A-R and assets.
- Evaluates the organization's and industry's practices on how capital assets are depreciated.
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.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Designs and interprets varied and complex financial reports.
- Advises others on the methods and purposes to create accurate financial reports.
- Monitors and ensures accuracy of the use of a variety of financial report-writing tools.
- Updates or establishes organizational standards for financial reports.
- Consults others on identifying, tracing, and correcting errors in financial reports.
- Creates and customizes organizational methods and procedures for financial reports