Caterpillar, Inc

Global Receivables Consultant

Caterpillar, Inc$118K — $190K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in finance, specifically in administration and risk management of receivable purchases.
  • Strong understanding of finance and accounting principles.
  • Ability to analyze and report financial statements accurately.
  • Experience with budgeting and forecasting related to receivables and cash flow management.
  • Excellent communication skills, with capability to simplify complex financial concepts.

Responsibilities

  • Manage receivable purchases with internal business partners including accounting, treasury, and legal.
  • Lead budgeting and forecasting processes for receivables volume.
  • Identify and develop new opportunities for purchased receivables.
  • Oversee reporting and communication related to past due accounts.
  • Collaborate with various departments to optimize financial and operational planning.

Benefits

  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) for personalized financial management.
  • Health Lifestyle Programs to support employee well-being.
  • Access to an Employee Assistance Program for personal issues.
  • Voluntary benefits and employee discounts for added perks.
  • Career Development opportunities to enhance professional growth.
  • Incentive bonus potential based on performance.
  • Comprehensive disability benefits to protect income.
  • Life insurance for additional security.
  • Parental leave for new parents.
  • Adoption benefits to support growing families.
  • Tuition reimbursement for continuous education.
Full Job Description
Career Area:

Job Description:

Role Definition
Develop and maintain expertise in administration, risk management and structuring of receivable purchases from Caterpillar subsidiaries on a worldwide basis.

Responsibilities
• Manages the processing of receivable purchases in conjunction with Caterpillar Business Units; includes internal business partners such as accounting, treasury, tax, and legal.
• Leads all budgeting and forecasting efforts for purchased receivables volume expectations.
• Works with various internal business partners to grow potential purchased receivables opportunities.
• Works with internal business partners to ensure proper reporting of past due accounts and facilitates communication on past due purchased receivables.

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 Working Knowledge:
• Works with general ledger accounts.
• Differentiates between capital investments and expenses.
• Uses finance and accounting systems, procedures and practices.
• Interprets profit and loss statements, balance sheets and financial forecasts.
• Resolves questions about finance and accounting policies and practices.

Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.

Level Extensive Experience:
• Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.
• Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.
• Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.
• Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.
• Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives.
• Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.

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

Level Extensive Experience:
• Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices.
• Processes large quantities of detailed information with high levels of accuracy.
• Productively balances speed and accuracy.
• Implements a variety of cross-checking approaches and mechanisms.
• Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.
• Employs techniques for motivating employees to meet or exceed accuracy goals.

Communicating Complex Concepts: Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.

Level Working Knowledge:
• Uses comparisons to familiar ideas when introducing a technical or novel feature.
• Separates fundamental concepts from supporting details in explaining a product or service.
• Explains products and services with little or no use of technical jargon or advanced vocabulary.
• Emphasizes the most important facts or features of a product or service.
• Perceives lack of audience comprehension; further simplifies explanation when needed.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Level Extensive Experience:
• Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
• Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
• Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
• Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
• Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
• Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.

Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.

Level Extensive Experience:
• Communicates to clients regarding expectations of all parties.
• Participates in negotiating the terms of the business relationship.
• Conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes.
• Maintains productive, long-term relationships with clients or vendors.
• Creates opportunities to educate support teams on client priorities.
• Empowers others to establish collaborative, healthy relationships.

Financial Markets: Knowledge of the products, types, competitors, customer base, major issues and regulatory considerations in the financial markets; ability to apply financial market knowledge to various business environments.

Level Working Knowledge:
• Generalizes key characteristics of each financial market type; makes comparisons.
• States the standard operating procedures and processes of a specific financial product, such as an Initial Public Offering.
• Communicates related laws and regulations regarding a specific financial market, such as foreign exchange.
• Analyzes and summarizes current competitive landscape regarding financial markets.
• Generates risk reports on an assigned financial market by reviewing the operation data.

Retail Legal Contracts Review: Knowledge of retail customer interaction; ability to evaluate, interpret and improve language in retail contractual agreements.

Level Basic Understanding:
• Summarizes existing contracts that pertain to products and services in area of responsibility.
• Demonstrates understanding of how to interpret basic contracts and corresponding legal reports.
• Cites examples of contract clauses that must be complied with during daily retail activities.
• Describes main types of existing contracts in a retail environment.

Additional Information:

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

Compensation & Benefits:

Summary Pay Range:

$118,860.00 - $190,176.00

  • Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job 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.

Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:
September 15, 2026 - September 22, 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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