Job Description

Career Area:

Accounting

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Position Title: Accountant - Legal Entity Job Location: Bangalore, KA-India Job Purpose: To independently perform staff level accounting functions that deal with accounting issues of normal complexity to support business processes and provide further experience with Caterpillar accounting practices. Job Duties

• From the outset, the Accountant will be expected to be a contributing performer, performing financial/decision support accounting work that supports business processes.
• Additionally, this position will: -develop an expanded understanding of Caterpillar\xe2\x80\x99s business and accounting practices, systems and procedures; -apply accounting knowledge -participate on and lead teams .
• The incumbent will be exposed to a variety of accounting functions and will perform high level of compilation with a broad range of analysis work.
• Incumbent works on challenging, low to medium risk issues and makes decisions and recommendations as appropriate.
• Work will be directed by an accounting supervisor primarily through review of progress and results.
• Possible areas of responsibility are varied and of medium complexity, including:
• financial accounting, including preparation of journal entries, account reconciliations, inventory accounting, consolidations
• internal management accounting, including profit centre reporting and budgeting and margin analysis \xe2\x80\x93
• coordination of purchased services and transfer prices -development and maintenance of internal controls and procedures, including Sarbanes-Oxley control Documentation.

Possible areas of responsibility are varied and of medium complexity, including:

• Financial accounting including preparation of journal entries, financial statements, trend marginal variance analysis, and account reconciliations
• inventory accounting and standard cost revision
• Intercompany reconciliation and analysis
• Development and maintenance of internal controls, including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) control documentation.

Possible areas of support could include:

• Inventory Accounting& Plant Support
• Sales/ Cost of Sales Accounting \xc2\xa7 General Ledger / Legal Entity Reporting & Analysis
• Capital Assets Accounting
• Financial Systems
• SOX Compliance
• Tax Accounting, Tax & Trade Compliance (outside the U.S.) Interacts with multiple functional areas and levels of authority.

The Staff Accountant is capable of handling complex accounting issues such as:

• inventory valuation \xc2\xa7 intercompany transactions \xc2\xa7 sales and cost of sales reporting \xc2\xa7 resolving financial reporting problems
• They will demonstrate good communication skills and have an expanded knowledge of Caterpillar\xe2\x80\x99s businesses, products, suppliers and customers.

• CA/CMA fresher or accounting degree with experience
• Experience in reconciliation and journal entry is required.
• SAP experience is preferred.

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