Accountant
Caterpillar
- Tianjin
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Maintaining financial records in accordance with GAAP and organizational standards.
- Creating reports on financial performance and providing insightful analysis for internal and external use.
- Upon request, take part in special projects and ad hoc reporting requests.
- Maintain, implement, and adhere to internal controls while ensuring that accounting procedures comply with GAAP.
- Utilizes cost monitoring practices, techniques and considerations.
- Works with financial transactions and related documentation within the organization.
- Participates in accounting practices of classifying and recording financial data.
- Maintains existing charts of accounts.
- Follows regulations for entering and reporting the financial content in major accounting systems.
- Applies principles used to evaluate the economics of investment decisions.
- Interprets major types of financial statements issued by the organization.
- Utilizes basic qualitative and quantitative tools and techniques with proficiency.
- Works with a specific financial analysis tool set.
- Implements valid financial analysis aligned with key criteria.
- 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.
- 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.
- Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.
- Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.
- 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.
- Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
- Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
- Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
- Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.