Data Scientist - Finance Business Intelligence

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.

Technology, Digital and Data

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.

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• Enables smarter, faster financial decisions by transforming data into insight through modern business intelligence, analytics, and AI enabled innovation.

• Data acquisition, modeling, and analysis at scale, designing high quality data models that enable advanced analytics, business intelligence, and AI driven insights.
• Explore, advance, and implement semantic data capabilities to improve data accessibility, consistency, and insight generation across finance.
• Partner with stakeholders to define requirements, scope, and deliver data solutions, translating insights into clear narratives and recommendations for finance leadership.

Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Experience desired

• Shaping and advancing AI enabled analytics and data quality best practices.
• Handling large, complex datasets with exceptional accuracy.
• Balancing delivery speed with disciplined, human verified data precision.
• Designing and applying rigorous data validation controls.
• Applying advanced quality assurance standards across analytics solutions.
• Promoting a strong culture of accuracy and accountability.

• Writes and tests basic logic to retrieve, transform, and calculate data reliably.
• Debugs common syntax and logic errors using tool feedback and structured testing.
• Builds reusable components (queries, functions, measures) following established patterns and standards.
• Understands evaluation context and applies calculations that respond correctly to filters.
• Documents intent and validates results before sharing, publishing, or automating outputs.

• Defines, creates, and tests simple queries, using command language and AI assistance to improve accuracy and efficiency.
• Uses appropriate tools to access governed data warehouse sources securely and consistently.
• Obtains and analyzes query access path information and query results.
• Employs tested query statements to retrieve, insert, update and delete information.
• Applies advanced query features (sorting, filtering, calculations) and leverages AI support to validate outputs.

• Follows policies, practices and standards for determining functional and informational requirements.
• Confirms deliverables associated with requirements analysis.
• Communicates with customers and users to elicit and gather client requirements.
• Participates in the preparation of detailed documentation and requirements.
• Utilizes specific organizational methods, tools and techniques for requirements analysis.

Summary Pay Range: $94,728.00 - $

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance, and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)…