Accounting Associate Job in Bengaluru at Caterpillar Inc.

Caterpillar is hiring for the role of Accounting Associate!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Preparation of Financial Statements and audit schedules needed for the Legal Entity to comply with regulatory requirements of the Local GAAP and other compliance obligations.
• Analysis of financial results to arrive at meaningful conclusions
• Understand and perform Audit adjustments based on GAAP differences and significance of the transactions, Reconciliation of local GAAP & US GAAP accounting profits.
• Support filing of statutory reports with assistance from legal teams
• Coordination with statutory auditors for ensuring timely provision of information
• Coordinate with other functional groups to compile and review all financial information required for Financial Statements and audit validations
• Resolving audit questions and managing discussions with audit supervisors and guide other legal entity team members with respect to preparation and presentation of financials.
• Support Other Local Compliances
• The Incumbent will work with Tax groups (both Direct and Indirect) to assist them with specific requests on data / information feed that involve statutory reports to meet with tax compliances (Assessments/ Audits/ Transfer Pricing, etc).
• Advisor to the business on matters concerning local statutory

Requirements:

• Qualified Chartered Accountant with 0-2 years of experience/ Semi qualified with 4-6 years of experience in managing statutory audits
• Experience in accounting in US GAAP & IFRS (or FRS of any country in Asia) is required
• Experience in SAP or other ERP is preferred
• Big 4 experience preferred.
• Knowledge of Compliances relating to Taxes / Secretarial / trade /Currency will be an advantage but not mandatory
• Strong Communication and inter-personal skills required
• This position requires candidate to work a 5-day -a -week schedule in the office