Senior General Accountant

Cleveland Steel Container, an Employee Owned and World Class Steel Pail and Tin Can Manufacturing company, is seeking an enthusiastic, responsible, and customer-oriented individual that has a positive attitude and shares the values of our company culture, which is built around teamwork, family, honest communication and producing desirable results for our Hudson, OH corporate office.

INDUSTRY LEADING BENEFIT PROGRAM THAT INCLUDES LOW EMPLOYEE PREMIUMS FOR MEDICAL INSURANCE, 401K AND UNMATCHED RETIREMENT PROGRAM AS AN EMPLOYEE OWNER. DENTAL, VISION, LIFE AND DISABILITY INSURANCES. NEW EMPLOYEES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR 15 DAYS OF PAID VACATION PER CALENDAR YEAR AND 11 PAID COMPANY HOLIDAYS.

Function: The Senior General Accountant supports the monthly financial close and is responsible for financial statement preparation, general ledger accounting, account reconciliations, manufacturing cost accounting, variance analysis, fixed assets, and audit support. The position partners with sales, operations, and supply chain teams to ensure accurate financial reporting and improve understanding of manufacturing costs and operational performance.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage assigned portions of the monthly close process and ensure deadlines are met.


• Prepare and review journal entries with appropriate supporting documentation.


• Prepare monthly financial statements accurately and issue them by the fourth business day.


• Analyze financial results against budget, forecast, and prior periods, and explain significant variances.


• Prepare and maintain balance-sheet account reconciliations and resolve reconciling items promptly.


• Maintain product costs, bills of material, routings, and manufacturing cost standards in coordination with operations.


• Analyze inventory valuation, reserves, absorption, and material, labor, overhead, purchase-price, and production variances.


• Support cycle counts and physical inventories, including investigation and resolution of discrepancies.


• Maintain fixed-asset records and support capital expenditure tracking and project closeout.


• Assist with annual budgets, forecasts, external audits, and internal-control documentation.


• Identify process improvements and opportunities to strengthen accounting accuracy and efficiency.


• Prepare or assist with required governmental, regulatory, and statistical filings.


• Assist with Special Projects as needed.


• Some travel to outside sites to assist with projects and inventories may be required.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting


• 5+ years of progressively responsible accounting experience, including general ledger and financial statement preparation; manufacturing or cost-accounting experience strongly preferred.


• Experience mentoring or reviewing the work of other accounting personnel is preferred.


• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP.


• Ability to analyze large volumes of financial and operational data.


• Ability to communicate accounting results to nonfinancial personnel.


• Oracle experience; a plus


• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and financial-data analysis.


• Demonstrated reliability, integrity, and a strong work ethic.


• Ability to work effectively in teams; demonstrated ability to assimilate information quickly and a deep desire to learn and succeed.

Cleveland Steel Container was founded in 1963 to provide customers with a dependable steel pail. Currently, we have four plants located strategically throughout the United States to support our customers. At our Streetsboro facility, we have a metal stamping plant to provide component parts for our pails. At our Youngstown and Detroit facilities, we manufacture gallon, quart and F-style tin cans. Our goal is to continuously provide our customers with quality pails and cans through excellent service at an outstanding value. Finally, we make good pails and cans and deliver them on time!

Cleveland Steel Container offers a competitive salary based on commensurate experience and a comprehensive benefits program that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, 401k with company contribution, profit sharing, paid holidays and vacations, life insurance and short & long-term disability coverages along with an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).

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