Accounting Manager

1 day ago

Gauteng, South Africa Caterpillar Full time

**Career Area**:Accounting
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Whether it be ground-breaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.

When you join Caterpillar, 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.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Accounting Manager. The successful incumbent will manage the accurate and timely recording, analysis, summarization, and communication of business information for 4 South African legal entities:
**Cat Africa (parts), Cat Southern Africa (mining), (services) and Progress Rail **.

**Job Related Statistics**:
Team of 4 full time accountants serving various internal customers.

**Job Duties/Responsibilities**:
Incumbent provides supervision with both technical and administrative responsibility for a team of primarily management staff for all legal entity related areas as well as tax reporting (indirect and direct), treasury activities and internal controls. Overall accounting policies have been prescribed, but there is a continual need to interpret, coordinate and record activities resulting from constantly changing business conditions.

In addition, this position supports business and customer driven projects from an accounting perspective and supports overall business needs. Incumbent has a comprehensive knowledge of the organization’s accounting processes & systems.

Reporting directly to the incumbent are various levels of primarily management accountants and possibly some salaried support positions.

**Managing People**
- Supervises primarily management personnel who perform accounting functions of varying complexity including working with selected financial systems, interpreting and adhering to Caterpillar’s accounting practices and procedures.
- Manages a team and their related workload, prioritizes projects, assigns and reviews work, and controls the daily operating environment.
- Evaluates and reports on staff performance, participates in employee selection, provides career guidance and training direction, complies with personnel practices, and promotes team rewards and successes.
- Provides technical guidance and expertise.
- Motivates team members to work towards individual and team goals and objectives, and fosters an environment of teamwork and cooperation.

**Managing Expectations**
- Participates in the development and support of business strategies
- Communicates effectively within the team and with internal and external customers and data providers, including presentations to various levels of management.
- Proactively interacts with customers to develop, understand and manage customer requirements and expectations.
- Serves as liaison between customer, team and data providers and manages customer relationships.
- Identifies, establishes, prioritizes and communicates goals and objectives of team.
- Provides services, makes recommendations and manages costs.
- Performing Complex Staff Work
- Provides technical accounting guidance, financial results analysis, and customer requirements analysis.
- Leads initiatives outside team to represent the group (e.g. process improvements, new business requirements).
- Demonstrates a comprehensive knowledge of Caterpillar’s businesses, products, suppliers and customers.

**Background/Experience**:

- Position requires a bachelor's degree Accounting. An approved accounting certification is a plus.
- 6-8 years of accounting experience is recommended.
- Must have proven record of success and accomplishments at lower levels, preferably with prior supervisory experience.
- Must demonstrate initiative, leadership, good judgment and superior communication skills.
- Strong analytical, process improvement, problem solving and human relations skills are also necessary.

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