Job Description

Career Area: Accounting

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Responsibilities may include, but are limited to:

Drive continuous improvement activities including mapping current and future process maps, driving corrective actions, and developing, tracking, and measuring qualitative and quantitative results.

Drive a culture of innovation, simplification and continuous improvement through best practice sharing, advocacy, and hands-on leadership.

Partner with senior leadership, understand business goals, analyze opportunities, and develop improvement plans for various workflows/systems and technologies.

Build roadmaps that support the tactical execution of key continuous improvement initiatives across stakeholder teams.

Ensure consistent application of continuous improvement tools, methodologies, and best practices to accelerate improvements at scale.

Identifies and engage subject matter experts in support of multi-functional efforts in continuous improvement.

Basic Qualifications:

Preferred previous consultancy experience (2-3 years)/overall experience 6 to 10 years

Knowledge of best practices in invoice processing, supplier inquiry & helpdesk design, remittance advice issuance, vendor inquiries and dispute management

Knowledge and understanding of the mechanics in the ITP process stream and how these fit into the end-to-end financial process environment.

Project Management skills

People leadership/management experience

Diagnostic capabilities to identify improvement opportunities

Ability to work effectively across a matrix environment and navigate without a formal authority to deliver on business results

MSc/MBA in a scientific or business discipline

Accounting certification or an equivalent combination of related experience

Working knowledge of financial systems (SAP, QAD, etc) and ITP specific tools (e.g. OCR, Supplier Portals, Invoice Workflow tools)

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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