Senior Finance Specialist at Caterpillar in Nashville, Tennessee

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Career Area:
Finance
Job Description:

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When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

About Cat Financial

Cat Financial is a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For more than 40 years, Cat Financial has provided a wide range of financing solutions to customers and Cat® dealers for machines, engines, Solar® gas turbines, genuine Cat parts and services. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Cat Financial serves customers globally with offices and subsidiaries located throughout North and South America, Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa. Visit cat.com to learn more about Cat Financial.

Role Definition

Provides analysis and recommendations on risk exposures, specifically interest rates and market risks. Supports strategic projects to improve Treasury operational activities including, but not limited to, Finance Transformation initiatives, cash management processes, pricing activity, bank management, cash forecasting, foreign exchange, and funding.

Responsibilities

• Supports the production of monthly interest rates and performs risk analysis; interprets results.
  
• Identifies significant trends in behavioral patterns of consumers that have a direct relationship to interest rate movements, as well as those that do not.
  
• Applies project management principles to manage scope, timeline, resources, stakeholders, and risk throughout the lifecycle of strategic initiatives.
  
• Leads high-priority projects to achieve measurable business process improvements.
  
• Provides technical training and guidance for continuous improvement on the planning, development and implementation of process improvement.
  
• Assesses financial risks of forecasted transactions using modeling capabilities of in-house applications.
  

Skill Descriptors

Communicating Complex Concepts: Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Uses subtle cues to determine the language and experience level of an individual or group.
  
• Introduces technical terminology to listeners in the context of the product or service.
  
• Uses effective analogies to help an audience understand a novel feature of a product or service.
  
• Explains important details as they relate to the basic value of the product or service.
  
• Approaches communication challenges from various angles to find the one that works.
  
• Proceeds to next level of information when audience is ready.
  

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
  
• Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
  
• Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
  
• Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
  
• Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
  
• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.
  

Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Provides prompt and effective responses to client requests and interactions.
  
• Monitors client satisfaction levels on a regular basis.
  
• Alerts own team to problems in client satisfaction.
  
• Differentiates the roles and responsibilities in a business relationship.
  
• Works with clients to address critical issues and resolve major problems.
  

Data Gathering and Reporting: Knowledge of tools, techniques and processes for gathering and reporting data; ability to practice them in a particular department or division of a company.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Prepares cost-benefit analyses of alternative approaches.
  
• Analyzes complex reports as revealed by the data.
  
• Teaches others the calculations necessary to capture data and develop more complex reports.
  
• Oversees multiple data-gathering and analysis initiatives.
  
• Participates in developing criteria for selecting data gathering and reporting tools and techniques for various projects.
  
• Reviews and verifies data and reports for accuracy.
  

Financial Markets: Knowledge of the products, types, competitors, customer base, major issues and regulatory considerations in the financial markets; ability to apply financial market knowledge to various business environments.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Creates and defines standards to evaluate the financial status for large organizations.
  
• Elaborates on the threshold and limitation to enter into financial markets for various industry participants.
  
• Analyzes the impact of interest rate changes on the economy.
  
• Consults on trading platforms and operations of various financial markets.
  
• Provides coaching on the analysis and valuation models for various financial markets.
  
• Takes effective measures to ensure regulatory compliance of financial markets.
  

Financial Services Applications: Knowledge of a specific financial services application, associated systems and sub-systems; ability to use financial services applications for delivery of services to internal and external clients.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Works with all basic features and facilities of the application and related sub-systems.
  
• Documents maintenance and upgrade requirements and considerations.
  
• Troubleshoots and resolves common application or data problems.
  
• Integrates major interfaces to other financial applications and associated criticalities.
  
• Assesses the major inputs, outputs, and information flow.
  

Market Risk: Knowledge of processes, tools, and techniques used for analyzing market risk; ability to assess and manage investment exposures to market risk.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Analyzes the pros and cons of various market risk management and measurement models.
  
• Applies results of analysis, metrics tools, and processes to influence investment decision-making.
  
• Evaluates the contribution of market risk analysis to the organization.
  
• Establishes key business-specific market risk management benchmarks.
  
• Measures key benefits and gaps of market risk management practices.
  
• Implements unit-level or department-level market risk management processes and tools.
  

Financial Analysis: Knowledge of tools and approaches of financial analysis; ability to read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from financial and numerical material.

Level Expert:

• Leads others on the full spectrum of financial analyses.
  
• Consults on all major financial analysis approaches, quantitative and qualitative measures.
  
• Adapts financial analysis methods to support organizational goals.
  
• Directs others in interpreting and drawing reliable conclusions from industry financial data.
  
• Predicts industry trends and their potential impact on the organization.
  
• Champions the use of new technologies and tools for analyzing financial data.
  

Process Improvement & Project Management: Maintains focus on the continuous improvement of processes, products and services. Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Defines the critical workflow for executing key processes.
  
• Implements methods for improving and establishing controls for critical processes.
  
• Under guidance, plans and estimates simple projects
  
• Assists in detailed project plans including cost, schedule, and resource requirements and produces standard project status reports.
  
• Obtains information from stakeholders during the planning stage of a project.
  

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of "essential job functions" as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

#LI-Hybrid
Relocation is available for this position.Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.
Posting Dates:
November 12, 2024 - November 26, 2024
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

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