Caterpillar Inc.
Operations Accountant
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Operations Accountant
# Operations Accountant – Large Electric Power Solutions, Larne, Northern Ireland
At Caterpillar, we’re not just building machinery—we’re shaping progress. Our global team builds sustainable communities while fostering care for one another. As a trusted leader in construction, mining, and electric power solutions for over 100 years, we create a more resilient future. This opportunity invites you to join our Electric Power Division (EPD), a team operating across the globe and powered by innovation, collaboration, and shared purpose.
About the Role
Career Area: Finance Grade: 23 Job Title: Operations Accountant Location: Larne, Northern Ireland Work Style: On-site presence, 37.5-hour week (5 days/week)
The EPD is your gateway to a dynamic, fast-paced world where your financial expertise shapes critical decisions. This role supports the Large Electric Power Solutions team with accounting, financial insights, and advanced analytics, all while contributing to sustainable solutions for global power applications (hospitals, data centres, disaster recovery, etc.). Here, your work makes a visible, impactful difference across diverse projects.
What You Will Do
Essential Responsibilities:
-
Financial Accounting & Reporting:
- Prepare precise journal entries, ensuring financial records reflect reality.
- Provide actionable financial insights to empower management decisions.
-
Strategic Financial Leadership:
- Assist the Senior Finance Manager in crafting the facility’s annual business plan.
- Develop, maintain, and refine quarterly forecasts and monthly variance analyses for variable/period costs.
-
Process Ownership:
- Lead monthly normals reporting and drive the annual rates-setting process.
- Develop innovative tools and analytics to streamline financial analysis, reducing inefficiencies.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
- Decision Support & Ad-Hoc Analysis:
- Execute ad-hoc analyses on demand (material utilisation, factory efficiency, absorption, contracts, compliance).
What You Bring
Essential Experience & Knowledge
- Proven financial analysis expertise: Display familiarity with techniques, technologies, and methodologies for interpreting financial documentation (statements, trends, ratios).
- Ability to translate complex financial data into clear, impactful conclusions.
- Experience in financial compliance regulation and stakeholder communication.
- Educated to bachelor’s level in accounting, finance, or a related business field.
Core Skills Required
-
Analytical Rigour: Uncover the root cause of financial challenges; propose innovative solutions.
-
Precision & Attention to Detail: Recognise the value of accuracy in accounting processes.
-
Strategic Communication: Be heard in cross-functional discussions; translate nuanced data visually and verbally to drive decisions.
-
Prioritisation & Multitasking:
- Elevate results under pressure while managing competing priorities and cross-team collaborations.
- Balance short-term execution with long-term analytical planning.
Top Expected Attributes
- Technical Proficiency:
- Prior exposure to eSAP, Axiom, PowerBI, and Co-Pilot will be utilised and developed further.
- Professional Credentials:
- Certified or Chartered Accountant status will be an asset.
What You Will Get
Competitive Offering
- Starting Salary: £50,827 (progression based on experience).
- Core Benefits:
- Annual Leave: 25 days.
- Annual Bonus: Up to 12% (contributory).
- Pension Scheme: Contributory with 6% employer match.
- Share Scheme: Employee contribution matched at 50%.
- Flexible Benefits:
- Access to tailored health and dental plans.
- Electric vehicle lease.
- Holiday Purchase Scheme (extra paid leave).
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
- Culture & Growth:
- Membership in a diversely talents, purpose-driven team.
- Career Development: Empowerment to drive innovation with clear internal mobility paths.
- Global Impact: Join a company vision at the forefront of sustainable development.
Why Caterpillar?
Beyond rewarding compensation, we offer an ecosystem where everyone thrives:
- A community-driven culture where collaboration and wellbeing are pivotal.
- Empowered roles where your perspective drives innovation.
- Brands Built for a True Future: From emissions-efficient power solutions to AI-enhanced analytics, we build products that drive a reduced-carbon world forward.
- Hire smart, work well together: High integrity, teamwork, commitment, and sustainability are practised daily.
“Our culture is made by every employee. Our success is a collective pride.”
Important Notes
- This is an onsite position (5 days/week).
- Applications reviewed between 26 June and 5 July 2026.
- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer: look for talent without bias, regardless of background.
As applying processes evaluate experience against outlined criteria, emphasise [your CV] directly to these requirements. Depending on response levels, roles may evolve to streamline selection.
#LI-HireVeterans
Ready to build a better way forward with us? Join our Talent Community today. We’d love to meet you.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills