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Job Description:
**Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. **
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.
Our common values and focus on inclusion and respect drive the decisions made by our company, teams, and people. This is why we are committed to hiring and building diverse team representatives of the customers we serve globally. When you join our team, you can apply your unique life and job experiences and work in an environment where your ideas are heard, your contributions are celebrated, and your whole-self matters.
**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.
The Role:
- With limited supervision, support the global business with a focus on SOX Compliance within Caterpillar's captive finance subsidiary.
- Partner and collaborate with finance and functional teams to ensure appropriate accounting, reporting, and disclosures in accordance with US GAAP and SEC reporting.
What You Will Do:
- Coordinate timely control testing, remediation, documentation, and reporting of internal controls and related accounting activities in accordance with the COSO framework and Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX).
- Leverage technology to enable management to easily review global control deficiencies and remediation efforts to ensure accurate financial reporting.
- Partner with the business to drive sustainable process improvements in global financial reporting; provide recommendations for process simplification and standardization; and educate personnel on SOX and internal controls through training sessions, newsletters, and bulletins.
- Work closely with internal auditors, external auditors, and other financial professionals to ensure processes and controls are in line with the overall goals of the organization.
- Support enterprise-wide scoping and risk assessment activities to facilitate the assignment and testing of internal controls.
Degree Requirement:
- Bachelor’s in Accounting, or a bachelor’s degree in another discipline plus 18 credit hours of Accounting.
Skill Required:
- **Accuracy and Attention to Detail: **Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
- Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
- **Effective Communications: **Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
- Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
- **Accounting: **Knowledge of accounting methods, processes, and tools; ability to maintain and prepare financial statements and reports using accounting methods and processes.
- Financial Analysis: Knowledge of tools and approaches of financial analysis; ability to read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from financial and numerical material.
- Financial Record Keeping: Knowledge of financial record keeping processes, methods, and tools; ability to maintain accurate and thorough records of financial transactions.
- Financial Reporting: Knowledge of processes, methods, and tools of financial reporting; ability to create and maintain accurate and thorough financial reports.
What Top Candidates Will Bring:
- Holds a CMA and/or CPA qualification, bringing strong technical accounting expertise, commercial acumen, and a solid grounding in financial governance and control frameworks.
- Proven experience across internal and/or external audit, with the ability to assess risk, strengthen controls, and provide independent, value‑adding insight to the business.
- Excellent communicator and collaborator, able to engage confidently with senior leaders and influence decision‑making through clear, well‑structured financial and risk narratives.
- Experienced working with global, cross‑functional teams, partnering effectively across finance, risk, compliance, and operational stakeholders in complex, matrixed environments.
**Compensation & Benefits: **
Summary Pay Range: $94,728.00 - $151,572.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance, and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
**Benefits: **
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary of the benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.) *
- 401(k) savings plans*
- Health Savings Account (HSA)*
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
- Health Lifestyle Programs*
- Employee Assistance Program*
- Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
- Career Development*
- Incentive bonus*
- Disability benefits
- Life Insurance
- Parental leave
- Adoption benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
_* These benefits also apply to part-time employees _
Additional information:
- This position requires the successful candidate to work full time, 5 days per week in the Nashville office.
- Relocation is available for this role.
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.
This position requires working onsite five days a week.
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Posting Dates:
May 12, 2026 - May 19, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
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