**Career Area:** Legal and Compliance **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. **Job Summary:** Drive and oversee all legal aspects across multiple jurisdictions (Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, and Northern South America) related to the management of the company´s operations of its financial products, including local and cross-border loans and leases, with focus on portfolio management and origination of standard and non-standard financing agreements. Additionally, responsible for the corporate governance of the company and its subsidiaries, as well as providing support to the Compliance team. Lead and influence colleagues and clients. Collaborate cross-functionally, implement proactive risk management strategies, and provide strategic legal support to senior leadership and business teams. Drive alignment between legal support, business, leadership, and enterprise standards. **What You Will Do:** + Portfolio Management: Lead and implement legal strategies for the management of default accounts. Drive the resolution process through litigation or negotiated settlements, including restructuring payment terms and repossession of collateral. Develop and maintain reporting processes to monitor portfolio health and ensure timely updates to senior leadership and business stakeholders. + Credit & Operations support: Work closely with operational teams, including finance, collections, and risk management, to align legal strategies with broader business objectives. Ensure seamless integration of legal activities into business operations and support the business in driving effective decision-making related to portfolio performance and risk mitigation. Periodic review of our financial agreements to ensure that we are following local regulations in each country in which we operate. Also, monitoring regulatory changes in each of those countries on a regular basis. + Corporate Governance: Manage corporate governance responsibilities, including maintaining corporate books, drafting resolutions, and ensuring the accuracy of corporate records. Prepare and organize documentation for shareholders’ and board of directors’ meetings, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. + Compliance Management: Oversee legal compliance for portfolio management activities across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring adherence to local and international laws and regulations. Provide legal advice on compliance risks, collaborate with Compliance team to implement processes to mitigate these risks, and ensure all legal activities meet internal and external regulatory requirements. + Advise management and provide clear recommendations on legal matters and related risks. + Provide legal support for a business division or significant legal practice area through supervision of a team, or coordination of a network of legal professionals, or serving as a subject matter expert. + Research complex legal issues and reviewing and drafting written recommendations consistent with legal strategies and goals in line with company's business objectives. **Education Requirement:** + Law Degree required + Fluent English **Top Candidates also have:** + Expert advising multinational organizations and working on international teams **What Skills You Will Have:** **Risk Management:** + Implements or manages risk management for own area. **Effective Communications:** + Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position. + Collaborates and communicates well with all levels and departments **Problem Solving:** + Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes. + Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems. **Resource Management:** + Applies the concept of sustainability to conserve and reuse resources where possible. **Legal Analysis:** + Knows national legal requirements and collects and understands advice from international colleagues and outside counsel. + Breaks down legal issues into understandable concepts. + Issue-spots across multiple legal, regulatory, and corporate requirements. **Legal Function:** + Monitors major current legal challenges, initiatives and issues. + Adheres to organizational standards and procedures for the legal department. **Additional Information:** + Location Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon + Sponsorship for foreign candidates aren´t available + Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected candidate. + Don’t forget to attach you resume in English. **Final details** Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status. **The Caterpillar Code of Conduct states that we will select and place employees based on their qualifications for the job to be performed, without regard to race, religion, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age or disability. In this company we do not request pregnancy tests, nor HIV tests as requirements for employment entry, permanence or promotion.** **Posting Dates:** February 14, 2025 - February 27, 2025 Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). Not ready to apply? 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