Business Solutions Specialist

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

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.

Our common values and focus on inclusion and respect drive the decisions made by our company, teams, and people. This is why we are committed to hiring and building diverse team representatives of the customers we serve globally. When you join our team, you can apply your unique life and job experiences and work in an environment where your ideas are heard, your contributions are celebrated, and your whole-self matters. 

About Cat Financial  

Cat Financial is a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For more than 40 years, Cat Financial has provided a wide range of financing solutions to customers and Cat® dealers for machines, engines, Solar® gas turbines, genuine Cat parts and services. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Cat Financial serves customers globally with offices and subsidiaries located throughout North and South America, Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa. Visit cat.com to learn more about Cat Financial. 

Role Definition
Provides solutions for IT and business management on applying technology to business opportunities, planning and implementation of cross-functional applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide consulting services to internal finance groups on process improvement projects designed to improve their business results.

• Analyze, define and document client's requirements, and revise existing systems logic challenges, as necessary.

• Monitor client experiences and feedback on the use of Oracle EPM applications; enhance system productivity, as needed.

• Participate in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems that are cost effective and meet business requirements.

Skills Descriptors
Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Extensive Experience:

• Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.

• Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.

• Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.

• Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.

• Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.

• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

Technology Advising: Knowledge of effective advisory methods and ability to provide valued information and advice to clients regarding products, technologies, services and solutions for a specific technology domain.
Level Extensive Experience:

• Collaborates with an extended professional technology network to help clients effectively identify, plan for and accomplish EPM technology objectives.

• Identifies and evaluates emerging technologies and advises EPM architects and technical leaders regarding their potential business impacts.

• Effectively consults with and conveys technology concepts, business impacts and other advice to senior client levels.

Application Design, Architecture: Knowledge of basic activities and deliverables of application design; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
Level Extensive Experience:

• Participates in application design reviews and walkthroughs.

• Creates and evaluates technical alternatives for complex applications.

• Prepares technical design documents and blueprints for applications.

• Explores and evaluates application design considerations for multiple technologies.

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