Senior Accountant

Our Company:

If you are looking to join a team where your opinion is valued, your contributions are noticed, and enjoy working with fun and talented people from all over the world then this is the place for you.

If you have a desire to work in an organisation that is:

• Passionate about its people
• Focused on delivering the very best tech to our customers
• Offering the flexibility to work how and where you are most successful
• Obsessed with our customers success
• The leading SaaS platform to automate partnerships - affiliate, influencer, technology partners, and more!
• Entrepreneurial in spirit with a culture that rewards collaboration and curiosity
• Obsessed with making a difference in business and to the wider community

Impact is the global leader in Partnership Automation, working with innovative brands like Ticketmaster, Levis, Microsoft, Airbnb, and Uber to help them manage their online affiliate, influencer, brand to brand, and content partnerships. The Impact Partnership Cloud covers the full life partnership lifecycle including onboarding, tracking ads and paying partners, recruiting for new partners, data and marketing intelligence, and protection from fraud. Founded in 2008, Impact has grown to over 500 employees and ten offices across Europe, the United States, Africa, and Asia so there is plenty of opportunity for growth and advancement.

Your Role at Impact:

You will work with both the local finance team involved in the day-day core accounting functions within the business and the group Corporate Accounting team.Carrying out effective financial controls over the functions allocated, as well as the ability to adapt and implement change to the existing processes within the financial control environment. You will be expected to collaborate and support the group Corporate Accounting function, the FP&A function on an ad hoc basis, providing support to the technical accounting function and contribute to other finance maturity, and transformation initiatives, including systems. You will play a key-role in the month-end close and reporting process, contributing to ensuring that our reporting is timeously and accurately closed in line with the business objectives and group accounting policies. This incumbent/person is a fast learner, a self-starter and capable of producing work of a high quality without close supervision.

What You'll Do:

• Under limited supervision, responsible for moderately complex accounting activities, with a specialised focus on global clearing house, intercompany and fx accounting.
• Manage a team of 3, acting as first reviewer on the month end close procedures related to the areas of responsibility within the team ensuring accurate and timely close each month.
• Ensuring balance sheet reconciliations are completed, reviewed and signed off each month.
• Work closely with other business units and cross functional teams to implement new initiatives and projects
• Provide support and assistance to the technical accounting department on an ad hoc basis.
• Partner with the treasury team to ensure that fx risk is effectively mitigated through strategic analysis and decision making on our cross country transactions.
• Monthly reporting to senior finance leadership on intercompany and fx
• Optimize financial processes of cash matching and application, global clearing house accounting and intercompany accounting to automate the processes, with the objective of improving the close timelines within these areas of responsibility.
• Provide support to the auditors for both the group and statutory annual audits

What You Have:

• 0-2 years of post articles experience
• Qualified CA(SA)
• Big Four audit firm experience as well as technology environment will be an advantage
• Previous experience in an international group of companies is an advantage
• Microsoft Office/Google Suite proficiency
• Interest in working as part of an international team across time zones and regions
• Experience in US GAAP advantageous
• Previous experience in large volume intercompany and foreign exchange transactions is advantageous

Nice to have:

Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA

Benefits/Perks:

• Hybrid, Casual work environment
• Unlimited PTO policy
• Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both
• 6 month primary caregiver leave
• Training & Development
• Learning the advanced partnership automation products
• Medical Aid and Provident Fund
• Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
• Group scheme with Momentum for provident fund
• Restricted Stock Units
• 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
• Internet Allowance
• Fitness club fee reimbursements

Impact is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.