Career Area:FinanceJob 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 teams representative 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 FinancialCat 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
Managing End of Lease experience for customers, consulting on available options and eligible products and services, capturing customer intent, and guiding customer through process in coordination with internal/external partners.
What You will Do:
Managing customer contact at end of lease through end of lease decision, determining customer needs, and consulting on available options.
Delivering key strategic end of lease results through selling financial products and services with our value message.
Quoting product and service options for customers, determining eligibility, and aligning with all compliance, policies and procedures.
Collaborating with internal and external business partners to resolve requests and challenges in efforts to provide high quality customer service.
Skill DescriptorsCore Application Systems: Knowledge of major production application systems used for delivery of services to internal and external clients; ability to leverage major production application systems in diverse situations.Level Basic Understanding: Describes basic elements and benefits of core applications supported by own area. Names the organization's core application systems. Names major business functions and services supported by core applications. Locates and uses relevant documentation for core applications.Products and Services: Knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations.Level Basic Understanding: Describes how own unit's products and services fit within the organization's as a whole. Cites examples of how clients are using the organization's products and services. Collects research product information, service information and marketing literature. Identifies organization's flagship products and services.Service Excellence: Knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.Level Working Knowledge: Provides a quality of service that customers describe as excellent. Resolves common customer problems. Responds to unexpected customer requests with a sense of urgency and positive action. Provides direct service to internal or external customers. Documents customer complaints in a timely manner.Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.Level Working Knowledge: Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights. Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs. Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy. Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned. Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.Level Working Knowledge: Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient. Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness. Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work. Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate. Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.Negotiating: Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques; ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients in a constructive and collaborative manner.Level Working Knowledge: Works to achieve win-win in negotiations, rather than taking a win-lose approach. Focuses on issues rather than personalities. Uses active listening and probing techniques to surface problems, issues, and interests. Demonstrates a willingness to examine own position. Presents own position and listens attentively to position of others.Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.Level Working Knowledge: Provides prompt and effective responses to client requests and interactions. Monitors client satisfaction levels on a regular basis. Alerts own team to problems in client satisfaction. Differentiates the roles and responsibilities in a business relationship. Works with clients to address critical issues and resolve major problems.Equipment Financing and Leasing: Knowledge of equipment financing and leasing processes, risks and stakeholders; ability to provide high quality services of leasing and equipment financing for commercial clients while reducing risks.Level Working Knowledge: Works with routine activities of equipment financing and leasing in daily work. Follows applicable procedures and standards to conduct equipment financing and leasing business. Performs primary business needs analysis, due diligence, underwriting and payment collection for equipment financing and leasing cases and projects. Cooperates with partners for equipment management from equipment appraisal to remarketing to residual values. Assists with the creation and administration of equipment financing and leasing related documentation.This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.Posting Dates:August 22, 2024 - August 29, 2024Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community (http://flows.beamery.com/caterpillarinc/talcom) .
