Caterpillar, Inc

Credit Analyst

Caterpillar, Inc$74K — $118K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Degree or equivalent experience in finance or a related field.
  • Knowledge of credit analysis and verification techniques.
  • Familiarity with financial statement analysis and reporting practices.
  • Experience in customer service and handling client inquiries.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with customers and credit authorities.

Responsibilities

  • Review client credit histories and financial statements for loan risk assessment.
  • Consult with customers regarding financial transactions and resolve complaints.
  • Communicate with relevant authorities about customer credit history.
  • Analyze financial data to recommend loan approvals or denials.
  • Document customer interactions and loan application processes accurately.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits available.
  • Paid time off plan including holidays and volunteer days.
  • 401(k) savings plan with potential employer contributions.
  • Access to a Health Savings Account (HSA) and flexible spending accounts.
  • Support for career development and tuition reimbursement opportunities.
Full Job Description
Career Area:

Job Description:

Role Definition
Evaluates commercial loan requests by reviewing applicants' credit histories and analyzing financial statements in order to approve or deny loan applications.

Responsibilities
• Reviews the credit history, profitability and liquidity of clients to assess the risk level involved in credit extension or money lending.
• Consults with customers to verify financial and credit transactions; responds to customer inquiries and resolves customer complaints.
• Communicates with credit associations and other relevant authorities about the credit history of customers.
• Analyzes financial data to determine customers' risk profile for commercial loans; recommends approval or denial of loan applications.

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors
Finance and Accounting: Knowledge of finance and accounting practices, financial analysis, and reporting; ability to apply finance knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.

Level Basic Understanding:
• Describes the purpose of basic financial reports.
• Explains basic practices for financing projects; gives examples.
• States local financial tracking and reporting requirements.
• Explains basic financial and accounting concepts and terminology.

Service Excellence: Knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.

Level Working Knowledge:
• Provides a quality of service that customers describe as excellent.
• Resolves common customer problems.
• Responds to unexpected customer requests with a sense of urgency and positive action.
• Provides direct service to internal or external customers.
• Documents customer complaints in a timely manner.

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.

Level Working Knowledge:
• Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.
• Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
• Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.
• Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.
• Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.

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.

Level Working Knowledge:
• Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
• Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
• Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.
• Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.
• Identifies the major forces, events, and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.

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.

Level Working Knowledge:
• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Credit Analysis and Verification: Knowledge of credit analysis and verification; ability to utilize tools and techniques to determine the credit-worthiness of an applicant.

Level Basic Understanding:
• Identifies major tasks and responsibilities of credit analysis staff.
• Lists basic tools and techniques used to perform credit analysis.
• Describes the role and importance of credit analysis and verification.
• Clarifies the role of technology in credit analysis and verification.

Financial Statement Analysis: Knowledge of financial statement and balance sheet; ability to analyze financial statement data and determine the credit-worthiness of a business enterprise.

Level Working Knowledge:
• Works with balance sheets and income statements to evaluate credit worthiness.
• Selects examples of common red and green flags.
• Explains the roles of FASB and general accounting principles in the analysis process.
• Explains the relationship of balance sheets, income statements, and cash flows in the analysis process.
• Examines financial statement for validity and general correctness; highlights problems or issues.

Loan Origination: Knowledge of the skills, methods and technologies used to process new loan applications; ability to perform loan origination activities while adhering to established policies and procedures.

Level Working Knowledge:
• Performs customer service with regard to loan application processes.
• Verifies collected customer loan information to ensure accuracy.
• Prepares credit risk reports for management.
• Maintains and updates information in various application channels and loan origination systems.
• Participates in optimizing loan origination workflow.

This position requires incumbents to be onsite in the Nashville main office 5 days per week.

Compensation & Benefits:

Summary Pay Range:

$74,124.00 - $118,608.00

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

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:
June 23, 2026 - June 30, 2026

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

About Caterpillar, Inc

Progress Rail Services Corporation, a Caterpillar company, is one of the largest integrated and diversified suppliers of railroad and transit system products and services worldwide. Since its acquisition by Caterpillar Inc. in 2006, Progress Rail has used the Caterpillar international footprint to gain quick and widespread notice and approval across the globe. Product technology, reliability and durability, along with legendary aftermarket parts and service support, have been their keys to success. Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. The technology and world reach of Caterpillar, combined with the service standard and historical reliability of Progress Rail, ensures their products and services make a growing impact on the world rail industry. With their acquisition of Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD), Progress Rail is the world's largest builder of diesel-electric locomotives for all commercial railroad applications including freight, intercity passenger, commuter, switching, industrial and mining. EMD is also a global provider of diesel power engines for marine propulsion, offshore and land based oil well drilling rigs and stationary power generation. Electro-Motive is the only diesel engine manufacturer of its size to have produced more than 70,000 engines. This success stems from product reliability, serviceability, load acceptance capability, low operating costs and ease of maintenance with standardized components.

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Learn more about Caterpillar, Inc
Size
107,700 employees
Market Cap
$125.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.9 billion
Founded
1925
5 Year Trend
+5.8%
Revenue
$41.7 billion
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