Senior Accountant

Cabka; Hazelwood (MO); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

401(k)

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Employee assistance program

Flexible schedule

Referral program

Job summary

Cabka Group, based in Missouri, seeks a Senior Accountant to own month-end close and deliver precise financial reporting for a manufacturing environment. You will manage journal entries, accruals, and fixed asset accounting, while ensuring adherence to US GAAP and IFRS.

This role collaborates with operations and Group Finance, driving accuracy and audit readiness across the plant. Ideal candidates have 3+ years of progressive accounting experience, strong Excel and SAP skills, and fluency in

Qualifications

• 3+ years of progressive accounting experience in a plant/manufacturing environment.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines.
• Experience with ERP-based accounting and reporting processes.

Responsibilities

• Own month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities with accurate records and timely reporting.
• Prepare journal entries, accruals and deferrals, review GL activity and ensure documentation.
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations, resolve differences, and manage fixed asset accounting.
• Analyze financial statements and explain variances while preparing management and Group Finance reports.
• Ensure compliance with US GAAP, IFRS, policies, and internal controls.
• Support inventories, cycle counts, and audits with schedules and documentation.
• Identify opportunities to standardize and automate accounting processes.

Skills

US GAAP

IFRS

Close process

Journal entries

Fixed assets

Excel advanced

SAP ERP

English fluency

CPA/CMA preferred

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

CPA or CMA progress

Tools

ERP-based accounting

Job description

Cabka develops clever and transformative solutions for shipping goods around the world. We take plastic waste and transform it into reusable transport packaging. This is how we turn the used into the useful. Transformation is our power because we know that while resources are limited, possibilities are endless. Together with our customers, we transform entire supply chains and beyond, combining technology, innovation, and sustainability. To us, success means creating solutions that are optimal for our clients and for the planet. In Cabka we believe that every transformation starts with a group of passionate, dedicated, and innovative people. It is for them that we live a culture of inclusion, respect and trust that is strongly aligned with our values RESPECT, PASSION, CREATIVITY, ACCOUNTABILITY.
You want to be responsible for developing a key market with profitable growth? Join us in creating a future which makes us all proud!

Senior Accountant

based in St. Louis

Your responsibilities

• Financial Close: Own preparation-level month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities, ensuring accurate accounting records and timely reporting.
• General LedgerAccounting: Prepare journal entries, accruals and deferrals, review general ledger activity, and ensure complete and well-supported documentation.
• Balance Sheet & FixedAssets: Prepare balance sheet reconciliations, resolve outstanding differences, and manage fixed asset accounting from additions and depreciation to disposals and capital projects.
• Financial Analysis & Reporting: Analyze financial statements and explain actual-to-budget, forecast and prior-period variances while preparing reporting packages for management and Group Finance.
• Accounting Standards & Controls: Ensure compliance with US GAAP, IFRS, company accounting policies and internal control requirements.
• Inventory & Plant Accounting: Support inventory accounting, manufacturing variance analysis, cycle counts, physical inventory and related reconciliations.
• Cross-Functional & Audit Support: Partner with plant Operations and Group Finance on accounting matters and support internal and external audits with schedules and documentation.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to standardize, simplify and automate accounting and reporting processes.

Your profile

• Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field and 3+ years of progressive accounting experience, preferably in a plant or manufacturing environment.
• Accounting Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with financial close, journal entries, accruals, reconciliations and fixed asset accounting, combined with good working knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS.
• Ownership & Accuracy: Strong sense of accountability with high attention to detail, sound accounting judgment and the ability to independently manage deadlines and priorities.
• Analytical & Communication Skills: Strong financial statement analysis skills with the ability to investigate inconsistencies, explain variances and communicate effectively with Finance, Operations and Group stakeholders.
• Systems & Digital Tools: Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience with ERP-based accounting and reporting processes; SAP experience in a manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Languages & Qualification: Fluent English required; additional languages are an advantage. CPA, CMA or progress toward a professional accounting qualification is preferred.

What we offer

• Hybrid work with the option to work from home 1 day per week
• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

We embrace Diversity and Inclusion and are committed to providing equal opportunities to all of our applicants as well as our employees - regardless of gender, age, religion and beliefs, sexual orientation and gender identity, physical and mental ability, cultural, ethnic or national origins.

We embrace Diversity and Inclusion and are committed to providing equal opportunities to all of our applicants as well as our employees - regardless of gender, age, religion and beliefs, sexual orientation and gender identity, physical and mental ability, cultural, ethnic or national origins.