Career Area:Finance
Job Description:What You Will DoBusiness Partnership
• Serve as the primary finance partner for the NPI, GTPE, and GCB organizations.
• Lead monthly financial reviews with directors and leadership teams, providing insights on spending, forecasts, risks, and opportunities.
• Support forecasting, annual planning, budgeting, and variance analysis processes.
Analysis & Reporting
• Maintain and enhance enterprise-wide R&E reporting, analytics, and business insights.
• Develop and manage executive-level and ELT-ready reporting packages for R&E activities.
• Support organizational and business unit restructuring initiatives to improve financial transparency and reporting.
• Translate complex financial information into actionable business recommendations.
GPO & Continuous Improvement
• Serve as the Global Process Owner for enterprise R&E financial reporting and governance.
• Drive standardization and best practices across R&E financial planning and reporting processes.
• Lead continuous process improvements that increase efficiency, data quality, automation, and business insight.
• Ensure compliance with corporate financial policies, controls, and reporting requirements.
• Partner with R&E leaders to evaluate investments, resource allocation, and strategic initiatives.
Key CompetenciesBusiness Partnership
• Builds trusted relationships with leaders across multiple organizations.
• Effectively communicates financial results and recommendations to financial and non-financial audiences.
• Provides insights that support strategic and operational decision-making.
Accounting, Financial Analysis & Reporting
• Maintains accurate forecasting, reporting, and financial controls.
• Supports compliance with accounting policies and governance requirements.
• Analyzes financial performance, forecasts, trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Develops actionable reporting for management and executive leadership.
• Translates complex financial data into meaningful business insights.
Strategic Thinking
• Supports long-range planning and investment decisions.
• Identifies opportunities to improve reporting, processes, and organizational effectiveness.
• Aligns financial recommendations with business objectives.
Business Acumen
• Understands key business drivers and engineering operations that impact financial performance.
• Connects financial results to strategic and operational decisions.
• Identifies risks and opportunities and provides actionable recommendations to leadership.
• Builds business insights that improve decision-making and accountability.
Continuous Improvement
• Drives enhancements to processes, reporting capabilities, and analytical tools.
• Promotes standardization, efficiency, automation, and scalable solutions across FP&A activities.
What You Will Have• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• 3-5 years of progressive experience in FP&A, accounting, finance, or a related analytical role.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and management reporting.
• Ability to synthesize large and complex data sets into actionable business insights.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality results in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial reporting tools.
Preferred Qualifications• Experience supporting engineering, R&D, or project-based organizations.
• Experience developing executive-level financial reporting and presentations.
• Ability to influence decision-making through financial insights and business partnership.
Summary Pay Range:$97,530.00 - $146,290.00
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 list of 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 position requires working onsite five days a week.
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Posting Dates:November 3, 2026 - November 17, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
