Accounting Associate(Indirect Tax)

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**Career Area:** Finance **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. **About Caterpillar** Caterpillar Inc. is 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 nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed to and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed. **Your Impact 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. **Job Summary** We are seeking a skilled **Accounting Associate (Indirect Tax) to** join **GLBL BusSvcs Tax-Bangalore – Global Finance Services Division.** We are seeking a skilled Tax Analyst who will play a pivotal role within the Tax Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Bangalore, supporting the full spectrum of VAT/GST compliance activities across APAC jurisdictions. This role goes beyond traditional return filing—it is central to strengthening tax governance through meticulous invoice validation, tax determination accuracy, and proactive resolution of VAT/ GST discrepancies (“tax griefs”) arising in our accounting processes. As a key member of the tax compliance team, you will work closely with upstream functions to ensure that the source data feeding tax returns is complete, compliant, and technically aligned with local tax rules. A major part of this role involves reviewing vendor and customer invoices, validating tax rates and tax codes, and ensuring adherence to jurisdictional VAT/GST documentation requirements. You will also investigate and remediate mismatches between ERP tax postings and statutory positions, ensuring accurate reporting and reducing tax leakage or non‑compliance risk. The preference for this role is to be based out of **Bangalore Office, KA-India** **What you will do** - Tax CoE is an evolving, technology-driven function with a clear mandate to standardize and automate tax processes on a global scale. In this role, you will contribute to shaping that vision by supporting automation initiatives, testing system enhancements, improving data quality, and driving process excellence for APAC tax operations. Your work will directly impact the efficiency, accuracy, and integrity of the compliance lifecycle. - Given the multi‑jurisdictional nature of VAT/GST laws, success in this role requires strong analytical capability, sound understanding of country-specific tax requirements, and the ability to interpret complex transaction flows. You must be a strong team player with the flexibility to support cross‑functional initiatives, manage multiple calendars, and meet critical compliance deadlines. - This position offers the opportunity to work in a diverse and highly skilled team with backgrounds spanning consulting, tax, accounting etc. making it an exciting environment for someone who wants to deepen their indirect tax expertise and contribute to a high‑performing global CoE. **What you will have** - 3-5 years of relevant indirect tax combined with GST/VAT accounting experience - Experience in Big 4 (Indirect Tax domain) / Tax CoE Setup or fast-paced industry (indirect tax teams preferred) - **This position requires candidate to work a 5-day -a -week schedule in the office.** **Skills desired:** **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. **Analytical Thinking:** Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems. Level Basic Understanding: - Names specific tools or techniques that can be used to support the analytical thinking process. - Describes specific software applications or products used for business analytics. - Gives examples of how analytical thinking has been used to resolve problems. - Helps others research and learn more about business analytics tools and applications. **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 tech