Senior Accountant

The Company

At Caterpillar, you build what matters—whether it’s the career you want, crucial work skills, strong relationships, or new digital technologies. Our work is powered by our people. As a Caterpillar manufacturing professional, every day you’ll make sure our customers get the quality products they need to build our world’s infrastructure and power the world. And you’ll do it in modern, clean, safe environments equipped with the latest technologies. Here you can do the work that matters.

About SPM Oil & Gas

SPM Oil & Gas, a Caterpillar company, provides superior products and service solutions to make our customers more efficient and lower total cost of ownership. Globally, we deliver engineered oilfield and drilling equipment repair and certification, mechanical and rotating equipment repairs and upgrades, rapid prototyping of spare parts, robust asset management, operation and maintenance and field engineering services. We offer a wide range of career opportunities across a variety of technical and business roles in engineering and service locations worldwide. Join our team and help build engineering solutions that change the industry.

What will Caterpillar do for you?

When you join Caterpillar SPM Oil and Gas, you are joining a team of makers, innovators and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us.

The Company

At Caterpillar, you build what matters—whether it’s the career you want, crucial work skills, strong relationships, or new digital technologies. Our work is powered by our people. As a Caterpillar manufacturing professional, every day you’ll make sure our customers get the quality products they need to build our world’s infrastructure and power the world. And you’ll do it in modern, clean, safe environments equipped with the latest technologies. Here you can do the work that matters.

About SPM Oil & Gas

SPM Oil & Gas, a Caterpillar company, provides superior products and service solutions to make our customers more efficient and lower total cost of ownership. Globally, we deliver engineered oilfield and drilling equipment repair and certification, mechanical and rotating equipment repairs and upgrades, rapid prototyping of spare parts, robust asset management, operation and maintenance and field engineering services. We offer a wide range of career opportunities across a variety of technical and business roles in engineering and service locations worldwide. Join our team and help build engineering solutions that change the industry.

What will Caterpillar do for you?

When you join Caterpillar SPM Oil and Gas, you are joining a team of makers, innovators and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us.

The role

SPM Oil & Gas currently has an opening for a Senior Accountant. The role will involve independently performing staff level accounting functions that deal with accounting issues of normal complexity that support business processes and provide further experience with Caterpillar accounting practices.

Key Responsibilities Including but not limited to:

• Have a comprehensive understanding of Caterpillar’s business and accounting practices, systems and procedures;
• Apply accounting knowledge and provide guidance on accounting issues
• Participate on and lead teams
• Review various outputs for reasonableness and advise other accountants. Incumbent works on challenging, medium to high risk issues and makes business decisions and recommendations as appropriate. Work is supported by a supervisor primarily through review of results.
• Possible areas of responsibility are varied, including:
• Conduct financial accounting including preparation of journal entries, financial statements, variance analysis, and account reconciliations
• Oversee inventory accounting and standard cost revision
• Complete payroll and benefit accounting
• Conduct intercompany reconciliation and analysis
• Develop development and maintenance of internal controls, including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) control documentation
• Other possible areas of support include: Inventory Accounting & Plant Support, Sales / Cost of Sales Accounting, General Ledger / Legal Entity Reporting & Analysis, Capital Assets Accounting, Financial Systems, and SOX Compliance

Basic Qualifications

• 4-year degree, preferably in accounting. Non-accounting degree requires minimum 18 hours of college level accounting or approved Accounting certification.
• 2-4 years of accounting experience
• Must have proven record of strong initiative, leadership, accountability and effective communication skills.
• Knowledge of local statutory accounting, currency, and tax and trade controls are desired.
• Sales and use tax and VAT compliance
• Sales tax audit support

Role Based Competencies and Functional Skills

• Drive For Results, Trusted Advisor, and Business Acumen
• Finance Operations & Process Improvement and Financial Analysis & Support

Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected applicant. #LI