Regional Finance Controller SPM APAC

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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.

Skill Descriptors:

• Business Acumen: Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations. Level Extensive Experience:
  • Designs the organization's planning processes and decision-making channels.
  • Explains business issues and trends of our own business unit as compared to other business units.
  • Demonstrates a big picture understanding of the business, its interrelationships, and priorities.
  • Demonstrates strong foundation of business fundamentals, measurement, and business finance.
  • Develop business cases for own function, reviews, and critiques cases for other functions.
  • Explains advantages and risks of using business simulations for critical business decisions.
• Finance and Accounting: Knowledge of finance and accounting practices, financial analysis, and reporting; ability to apply finance knowledge appropriately to diverse situations. Level Extensive Experience:
  • Documents financial interdependencies within the organization.
  • Develops and applies cost/benefit analysis or ROI as part of business decisions.
  • Provides build-buy-lease analysis for major expenditures.
  • Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of cost accounting and reporting practices, tools, and procedures.
  • Explains cost/benefit analysis, financial analysis and modeling, organizational practices.
  • Coaches’ others on how to quantify costs and benefits for major expenditures.
• Organizational Governance: Knowledge of the processes, customs, policies, and rules affecting the way the organization is administered and controlled; ability to ensure compliance with governance guidelines and policies. Level Extensive Experience:
  • Ensures that internal business practices mirror industry-standard best practices.
  • Describes experiences in the development of governance policies or practices.
  • Complies with codes of ethics that benefit the overall good of all constituents.
  • Ensures clear and timely disclosure of relevant business performance data to all stakeholders.
  • Implements procedures to verify and safeguard the integrity of all financial reporting.
  • Helps in building a framework of internal controls and corporate disclosure for attaining the company's objectives.
• Strategic Thinking: Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization. Level Working Knowledge:
  • Implements the group's go-to-market strategy.
  • Raises awareness of potential strategic alliances and partnerships.
  • Explains elements of the strategy to others and encourages questions.
  • Monitors marketplace trends, opportunities, and vulnerabilities; reports findings.
  • Makes sound recommendations when faced with complex and contradictory alternatives.
• Leadership: Knowledge of leadership practices and processes; ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing, and achieving objectives while having a long-term perspective of the future state of things and how to get there. Level Extensive Experience:
  • Translates vision into specific functional or departmental initiatives.
  • Uses a normative decision model (with leadership styles and situational variables) to select style.
  • Promotes efficacy through monitoring, coaching & motivating subordinates, intervention, etc.
  • Uses emotional contagion to affect the mood of group members, tone of group and group processes.
  • Initiates structure: role clarification, setting standards, holding subordinates accountable, etc.
  • Employs various group decision-making methods depending on the situation.
• Financial Analysis: Knowledge of tools and approaches of financial analysis; ability to read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from financial and numerical material. Level Extensive Experience:
  • Conducts and documents analyses of a variety of financial statements and indicators.
  • Anticipates the potential impact of decisions based on financial data analysis.
  • Oversees financial analysis to evaluate organizational and managerial performance.
  • Evaluates financial statements and ensures regulatory compliance.
  • Advises others on a variety of financial tools, techniques, and approaches.
  • Directs others work with financial and cash flow ratios and trend analyses.
• Financial Forecasting and Modeling: Knowledge of processes, tools and techniques of financial forecasting and modeling; ability to explore and evaluate alternative financial scenarios and results. Level Extensive Experience:
  • Evaluates the key benefits and drawbacks of alternative models.
  • Uses financial models to seek investment opportunities, cost-savings ideas, and growth opportunities.
  • Utilizes the features and facilities of multiple modeling tools applicable to various situations.
  • Participates in making business decisions based on financial forecasts and models.
  • Consults on the application of a variety of forecasting and modeling techniques.
  • Analyzes and resolves anomalies discovered when running models.
• Financial Risk Management: Knowledge of tools, techniques, and strategies applied in financial risk management; ability to quantify, qualify, and manage financial risk. Level Extensive Experience:
  • Updates and implements improvements to risk assessment and management methods.
  • Evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of alternative risk management approaches.
  • Recommends risk assessment procedures and techniques based on organizational need.
  • Consults on a variety of risk assessment approaches and applications.
  • Evaluates, recommends, and justifies optimum risk management scenarios.
  • Advises others on a variety of risk and reward factors and their relationships.
    

Requirements:

Work Experience & Skills:

• More than 10 years of Accounting, Costing, FP&A and Controlling related experience with excellent business partnering skills.
• Experience with Syteline, SAP preferred, strong Excel skills required as well as proficient in other Microsoft Office software.

Education:

• Degree or equivalent required.
• Chartered Accountant, ACCA or equivalent preferred.

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

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