Group Accountant

impact.com; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 500,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading partnership management platform is seeking a Group Accountant to handle core accounting functions with a focus on incentive compensation. This role offers an opportunity for a newly qualified CA(SA) or professionals with relevant experience to contribute to financial processes and support various functions within the organization. Join a dynamic team committed to driving revenue growth through innovative solutions.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Training & Development opportunities

Medical Aid and Provident Fund

Fitness club fee reimbursements

Mental Health and Wellness Benefit

Internet Allowance

Qualifications

• Newly qualified CA(SA) or similar experience (3-4 years).
• Deep proficiency with Excel and large data sets.
• Experience in general ledger account reconciliations.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for incentive compensation accounting activities.
• Play a key role in the month-end close and reporting process.
• Collaborate with the FP&A function on ad hoc basis.

Skills

Excel analysis

Attention to detail

Problem identification

Communication skills

Education

CA(SA)

Experience in a similar position

Tools

Microsoft Office

Google Suite

SQL

Job description

At impact.com we are passionate about our people, our technology, and are obsessed with customer success. Working together enables us to grow rapidly, win, and serve the largest brands in the world. We use cutting edge technology to solve real-world problems for our clients and continue to pull ahead of the pack as the leading SaaS platform for businesses to automate their partnerships and grow their revenue like never before. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and a culture where ambition and curiosity is rewarded. 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!

impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnerships—including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The company’s powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go. To learn more about how impact.com’s technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oreal, and Fanatics, visit www.impact.com .

Your Role at impact.com:

The basic purpose of this position is to fill a need within the Corporate Accounting finance team involved in the day-to-day core accounting functions within the business, with a specific focus on the accounting around incentive compensation/commissions and certain other accounting areas. Carrying out effective financial controls over the functions allocated including, 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 any other functions that require support within the parameters of the role.

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. The candidate 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 incentive compensation/commissions accounting activities relating to the maintenance of a complete and accurate general ledger across the various subsidiaries within the group, as well as ensuring analysis in relation to those areas are complete.
• Overall responsibility for incentive compensation/commissions accounting including the monthly close processes, ensuring that these areas are closed accurately and timeously in line with Finance close objectives each month.
• Act as a first reviewer on the allocated areas within the close process to ensure the output of the processes above is in line with expectations before Manager review.
• Further to the above, responsible for consuming and developing the operational incentive compensation/commissions input and ensuring those inputs are complete, valid and accurate for the purposes of the accounting.
• Balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring balance sheet accounts within the scope of incentive compensation/commissions accounting are maintained on a monthly basis as part of the close process.
• Ensure all unreconciled and aged transactions on the reconciliations are appropriately and timeously addressed.
• Collaborate and support the FP&A function on an adhoc basis, including providing detailed monthly commentary.
• Assisting with Group and statutory audits. In addition, assisting with all compliance procedures in relation to incentive compensation/commissions accounting.
• Respond to ad hoc requests and prepare any necessary internal reporting as needed.
• Proactively anticipate and identify issues and design solutions to address them.
• Other duties as assigned by the Company.

What You Have:

• Newly qualified CA(SA) (0-2 years post articles) or non CA(SA) with 3-4 years of experience in a similar position and organization.
• Experience as a self-starter who can manage multiple projects and priorities in a highly complex environment with evolving priorities and deadlines.
• Deep proficiency with Excel analysis and manipulation of large data sets, including use of pivot tables and lookup formulas.
• Strong attention to detail, high degree of accuracy, and the ability to deliver clean and concise work products.
• Ability to proactively identify problems, design solutions, and implement changes.
• Experience performing general ledger account reconciliations and analysis.
• Experience collaborating and communicating with senior levels of management, cross-functional teams and departments, and external auditors.
• Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of how a SaaS company operates is advantageous.
• General proficiency with Microsoft Office and Google Suite.
• Interest in working as part of an international team across time zones and regions.
• Experience working with reporting tools and SQL would be advantageous.
• Experience in US GAAP is advantageous.
• Hybrid, Casual work environment
• Responsible 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
• Training & Development. Learning the advanced partnership automation products
• Medical Aid and Provident Fund Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid. Group scheme for provident fund
• Restricted Stock Units. 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approvalInternet Allowance
• Fitness club fee reimbursements
• Primary Caregiver Leave
• Mental Health and Wellness Benefit - Including 12 Therapy/Coaching sessions + Dependent coverage
  
  

impact.com 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.

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