• Job Description

  Req#: R0000237373

  Career Area:

  Finance

  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.

  Objective

  Global Logistics continuously seeks to improve processes, reduce costs, mitigate supplier risk, and improve quality. The focus of this role will include managing third-party partners and leading cross-functional teams, deploying new systems and processes worldwide, working with data across multiple systems, and ensuring accurate day-to-day audit and payment of freight invoices. The incumbent will provide technical guidance and expertise on business issues of high complexity such as applying General Ledger's policies to transportation invoices, managing tax accounting procedures, and synthesizing data to support annual RFQ procurement processes.

  The incumbent will propose global freight audit and payments strategies, and lead the day-to-day execution to improve the audit of freight invoices, collection of global logistics spend data, synthesize data to show carrier performance, and improve carrier on-time payment, and cost reduction while employing lean processes to reduce labor costs.

  Dimensions

  The Business Manager role typically manages multiple assignments simultaneously with urgent deadlines impacting cost, revenue, and margin. They manage, cost accounting, create documentation, and serve as a liaison between internal customers, data providers, and outside partners. They are responsible for analyzing multiple data sources and following up on discrepant invoices to explain root causes and propose opportunities for improvement.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Participates in the development and support of business strategies.
  • Communicates effectively within the team and with internal and external customers, including presentations to all levels of management.
  • Identifies, establishes, and prioritizes goals and key metrics.
  • Provides services, makes recommendations, and manages costs.
  • Own third-party and supplier (carrier) relationships.
  • Deploy new systems and documents QMS process flows
  • Provide oversight of the data domain and set standards of excellence.
  • Manage reconciliation of accounts payable with suppliers and internal finance partners
  • Support the sourcing of carrier lanes by working with internal partners.
  • Ensure compliance policies (trade automation, privacy, anti-corruption, etc.)
  • Lead cost savings, quality improvement initiatives, and operation execution

  Required Qualifications

  • A 4-year degree, preferably in supply chain, or accounting.
  • 5+ years of related experience
  • Strong conviction, open to considering alternative points of view.
  • Business acumen and understanding of accounting concepts
  • Strong change agent; effective communicator with internal clients and outside partners
  • Proven project management experience leading initiatives from inception to execution
  • Ability to effectively communicate with other team members and end-users
  • EXPERIENCE: Must have a proven record of success and accomplishments at lower levels, preferably with prior supervisory experience. Must demonstrate initiative, leadership, ability to work under pressure, good judgment, and superior communication skills. Strong analytical, process improvement, problem-solving, and human relations skills are also necessary.

  Preferred Qualifications

  • 5-9 years of freight audit or accounting experience is recommended
  • Freight audit and payments management experience
  • Power BI and Tableau exposure
  • Data systems management experience
  • Accounts payable experience
  • Exposure to EDI and other data integrations
  • This position is in-person, San Diego, Prague, Morton or Peoria-based. There are no relocation benefits provided.

  This Job Description is intended as a general guide to job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. 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 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.

  Summary Pay Range:

  $117,485.00 - $176,227.00

  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:

  Annual incentive bonus plan*

  Medical, dental, and vision coverage

  Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)

  401k savings plan

  Health savings account (HSA)

  Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

  Disability benefits

  Life Insurance

  Parental leave

  Healthy Lifestyle Programs

  Employee Assistance Programs

  Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts

  Tuition Reimbursement

  Career Development

  *Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines.

  Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

  EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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• About the company

  Since 1925, Caterpillar Inc. has been helping our customers build a better world – making sustainable progress possible and driving positive change on every continent. With 2020 sales and revenues of $41.7 billion, Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives. We do business on every continent, principally operating through three primary segments – Construction Industries, Resource Industries, and Energy & Transportation – and providing financing and related services through our Financial Products segment.

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