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Accountant – Caterpillar Skinningrove
Career Area
🔹 Finance
About Caterpillar Skinningrove
At Caterpillar Skinningrove, located near Teeside, we’ve been driving progress since 1998. Our facility produces steel track shoes, essential components forming the 'Cat track' found on Hydraulic Excavators, Track Type Loaders, and Track Type Tractors—the machinery that powers critical industries.
We don’t just build equipment; we build better futures. Here, your work contributes to sustainability, efficiency, and global innovation, shaping industries that drive economies. Whether you're structuring a business’s financial foundation or solving complex accounting challenges, you’ll play a key role in supporting our global operations.
Your work at Caterpillar helps create a better world—one tracked by Cat machinery.
Job Title
🔹 Accountant Location: Skinningrove, Saltburn-by-the-Sea
Key Details
| Aspect | Details |
|---|---|
| Salary | £41,593 – £51,992 (dependent on experience) |
| Hours | Full-time, permanent: 37.5 hours/week |
| Reference | R0000379897 |
| Work Location | On-site (5 days/week) |
| Relocation | Available for relocation |
| Interview Timeline | Interviews commence 10 August 2026; final interviews week of 24 August 2026. |
What You’ll Do
As Accountant at Caterpillar Skinningrove, you’ll:
- Shape and support the accounting function at our ** Skinningrove facility**, maintaining financial integrity while fostering growth.
- Report directly to the Accounting Manager, playing a critical role in decision-making aligned with Caterpillar’s strategic goals.
- Develop expertise across a broad spectrum of accounting tasks while understanding Caterpillar’s business model and industry nuances.
Core Responsibilities
✔ Expand business acumen – Deepen knowledge of Caterpillar’s accounting systems, practices, and procedures aligned with its distinctive business logic.
✔ Perform a Wide Range of Accounting Duties:
- Review clerical input, support entry-level accountants, and mentor salaried staff for accuracy and growth.
- Generate actionable reports, provide financial commentary, and establish sound financial workflows.
- Analyze, validate, and interpret financial data to guide decision-making processes.
- Develop and revise forecasts, budgets, and variance analyses based on evolving business conditions.
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✔ Cost & Decision Support
- Lead normals and machine rate development, enabling precise internal rate of return (IRR) assessments and standard cost analyses.
- Support inventory accounting and revisions, aligning costs with precision and sustainability goals.
✔ Financial Compliance & Reporting
- Prepare journal entries, financial statements, trend analyses, and reconciliations.
- Maintain Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) documentation, upholding stringent controls.
- Oversee intercompany transactions and cost monitoring for manufacturing lines.
✔ Interprofessional Collaboration
- Interface with multi-functional teams, stakeholders, and senior authorities to enhance coordination and operational efficiency.
✔ Complex Problem-Solving
- Analyze discrepancies between forecasts and actual performance across multiple entities.
- Evaluate capital asset justifications, product costing trends, and target cost control.
- Oversee sales reporting, ensure accuracy of COGS, and drive research-based valuation accuracy.
What You’ll Bring with You
Essential Requirements
- A degree in accounting or finance (or equivalent experience).
- Strong employment experience within finance roles—formed by quality education and hands-on practicality.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Detailed and critical accuracy – Embracing precision in every task.
- Analytical rigor – Navigating complex business issues and turning insights into actionable strategies.
- Clarity in communication – Bringing transparency to diverse audiences across reports, relational, and strategic feedback.
- Time management and multi-tasking excellence – Juggling competing priorities with the knowledge to prioritize effectively.
- Problem-solving acumen – Diagnosing, addressing, and preventing organizational, operating, and process inefficiencies.
- Confident adaptability – Translating financial concepts into practical decision frameworks.
Preferred Qualifications
- CIMA or ACCA qualification.
- Experience within manufacturing accountancy roles—familiarity with costing, supply chain logistics, or budgeting models is a bonus.
- Proactive independence – Taking organized initiative, and accountable ownership to completion.
About Your Benefits
At Caterpillar, we invest in your growth as passionately as we do in our business. Join a team that values your contribution and empowers you to develop:
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🔹 Career progression opportunities – Build a strategic skill set within Caterpillar’s leadership and cross-functional programs. 🔹 A supportive, future-aware culture – Whether mentorship, challenge, or peer collaboration, growth is nurtured at every level. 🔹 Diverse benefits – Time-off, development, and back-up:
- 27 days’ annual leave
- Contributory pension – Your efforts doubled by Caterpillar up to 10% of your contribution.
- Performance-based bonus (up to 10%).
- Contributory share scheme – 50% match on your Caterpillar investment.
- Optional flexions – Health, dental, car lease options, and extended leave perks.
Person, power, and purpose combine at Caterpillar—transform your professional journey here.
About Caterpillar
From engineer to innovator – Caterpillar has been redefining progress for over one hundred years. As the leader in construction, mining, and industrial equipment, we don’t just deliver machines; we partner with our customers to build sustainable infrastructure, increase efficiency, and outperform in everything we set out to do.
Our goal is zero-carbon transformation—Caterpillar’s sustainably passionate. For a cleaner future, across the globe, we’re working to slash emissions while bolstering environments—our biggest innovation is our team.
The latest innovation isn’t automated equipment; it’s your potential. Find your place in Caterpillar’s purpose-driven culture and ground-level innovation—where integrity, steadfast collaboration, and sustainability are not just principles—they define every achievement you’ll carry forward.
So, What’s Next?
This 11-month opportunity offers accounting and professional development in a dynamically evolving, manufacturing environment. You belong where collaboration is actionable progress. We’d love to challenge, support, and celebrate your work alongside ours.
✅ Ready to apply? Share your financial, circumspect energy—apply today! ✅ Not ready? Jump into Caterpillar’s Talent Community – The conversation (or your future) may just wait.
About Caterpillar as an Employer
✔ Inclusivity at every step: Caterpillar is committed to equal opportunities for all ages, backgrounds, and potential. ✔ Collaborate among cultures: Embrace the international diversity that makes Caterpillar the industry’s trusted superpower. ⚠ No exceptions: We proactively pursue fairness—biased or discriminatory notions don’t fit here.
Dim the lights, create the path; shape the better world—starting with a career at Caterpillar.
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