Career Area:
Accounting Job Description:

Position Title: Junior Accountant

Job Location: Bangalore, KA-India

Job Duties

From the outset, incumbent will be expected to be a contributing performer, doing entry level accounting work that supports business processes. Additionally, this position will:
• Gain an understanding of Caterpillar’s business and accounting practices, systems and procedures
• Learn and develop skills, which result from the practical application of basic accounting knowledge
• Provide assistance to project team members or others in the work group
• The incumbent will be exposed to one or multiple accounting functions and will accomplish a high level of compilation and basic analysis work, reviewing clerical input, processing journal entries, reconciliations, and generating reports. The incumbent will identify relevant data, data sources, gather and analyze information and provide feedback. Typically, decisions will impact low risk issues and will be reviewed by a supervisor or technical leader. Work will be directed by the supervisor, but this position does not require close supervision to be effective.

Possible areas of responsibility are varied, including:
• Processing accounting journal entries timely, accurately and completely to ensure that all financial transactions are properly accounted for
• Verifies data accuracy in the financial documents and takes appropriate action
• Performs analysis of accounting data to support management needs
• Preparation of all the requisite input source files for indirect tax returns of various countries.
• Liasoning with various stake holder across regions for indirect tax compliances and process improvements
• Handle the filing of returns through tools such as GVRT.
• Handles ad-hoc assignments
• Perform the reconciliation of the tax accounts with the returns filed.