Accounting Clerk

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Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World

Whether it be groundbreaking 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. Join us.

Description:

The purpose of this job is to prepare, analyze and record various accounting data for proper financial statement processing and to provide functional accounting expertise and leadership both within a defined team and throughout the division. This job helps ensure conformity to company accounting practices and procedures and significantly contributes to division wide process improvements.

Job duties include but are not limited to the following:

Depending on the structure of the team, this general position could perform any or several of the following: analyze and record direct material purchases and prepare related material variance reports, analyze and record sales/cost of sales activities, reconcile a variety of complex inventory, receivable or payable general ledger accounts, coordinate facility closing responsibilities and related database table maintenance, analyze and resolve problems related to facility direct material invoice vs. receipt imbalances, contribute to indirect inventory accounting, analysis, and journalization process improvements.

General Job Characteristics :

• Work Supporting Business Process: Prepare, analyze, and record accounting entries. Reconcile a variety of complex inventory, receivable, or payable accounts.
• Accounting/System Knowledge: Ensure conformity to company accounting practices and procedures. Possesses knowledge required to contribute to division wide process improvements.
• Project Teams: Provide functional accounting support within the team (especially to other support positions). Advises others with assertiveness.
• Accounting Functions: Various accounting tasks range from medium to complex.
• Decisions: Low risk issues, reviewed by supervisor. Uses departmental guidelines or applies solutions that worked in the past.
• Interactions: Primarily with Supervisor and Staff Accountants. Expected to backup other salaried employees. Does not require close supervision.

Employee may also be responsible for performing other job duties occasionally as assigned.

Basic Requirements:

• 3 years of job-related experience

Top Candidate Will Also Have:

• Must have a thorough knowledge of job responsibilities, typically gained by progressing through several lower level job assignments
• Must demonstrate initiative, leadership, and the ability to communicate effectively
• Good human relations skills are required to develop a cooperative work relationship with others inside and outside the department

Additional Details:

• Location: Griffin, GA

Employee benefit details:

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.

Here you earn more than just a salary, because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits [medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401(k)] along with the potential of an annual bonus.

Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).

Final details:

Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.

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. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers

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