Tax Analyst

impact.com; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company, impact.com, seeks a Tax Analyst to join their finance team in Cape Town. The role involves ensuring compliance with tax laws, performing audits, and providing strategic tax support. Ideal candidates will have a bachelor’s degree, 3-4 years of experience, and a strong knowledge of international tax principles, all while contributing to a diverse, hybrid work culture.

Benefits

Medical Aid and Provident Fund Group schemes

Fitness club fee reimbursements

Responsible PTO policy

Training & Development

Mental Health and Wellness Benefit

Primary Caregiver Leave

Qualifications

• 3-4 years tax experience in a multinational environment.
• Strong international tax knowledge from established jurisdictions.
• Ability to analyze and synthesize large data for compliance.

Responsibilities

• Gather and process information for international compliance and transfer pricing.
• Assist with tax audits and inquiries from taxing jurisdictions.
• Update and maintain the tax calendar.

Skills

Attention to detail

Problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Analytical skills

Quantitative skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting/ finance

CA, ACCA, or CPA designation

Tools

Microsoft Excel

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:

Ready to make your mark at a fast-growing global tech company? At impact.com, we’re looking for a detail-oriented and driven Tax Analyst to join our high-performing finance team.

In this role, you’ll assist the tax team in maintaining a world-class tax service to the business, ensuring that all tax laws are applied correctly in order to eliminate or minimize all tax risks, by providing and assisting the tax team to ensure all tax filings and payments are completed accurately and timeously.

What You'll Do:

• Responsible for gathering and processing the information required for international compliance and transfer pricing, and provide support with the year-end provision
• Provide support for tax audits and answers to inquiries from various taxing jurisdictions
• Assist corporate accounting in the verification of tax account balances (sales tax/VAT/GST, deferred tax, current tax accounts, etc.)
• Update and maintain the tax calendar
• Providing tax support and tax advice to business
• Review all tax payments and tax returns (direct and indirect tax) whether on a weekly, biweekly, quarterly, or annual basis
• Regularly perform audits on the system to ensure data integrity; responsible for the resolution of discrepancies that might adversely impact on the company’s tax returns
• Assist the Tax team with various ad hoc projects, and analysis

What You Have:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in accounting/ finance, or in a business related field. Having a CA, ACCA or CPA designation is advantageous.
• At least 3 to 4 years tax experience gained within a commercial environment of a multinational Group, candidates with a mixture of Big Four experience and in-house experience are also encouraged to apply
• Knowledge: Possess strong working knowledge of and ability to apply accounting
• Concepts: practical international tax interpretive knowledge gained from an established taxing jurisdiction (for example- SA, UK, Europe, US); and the ability to analyze and synthesize large amounts of data and related compliance/regulations
• Computer skills: Proficient with Microsoft Office tools, especially Excel. It is also essential that they possess strong computer skills to perform digital and online related tax duties
• Quantitative skills: It also vital that they possess strong mathematical and quantitative skills to handle tax audits, reconciliation related tax matters
• Attention to detail: They must be meticulously detailed individuals to ensure excellent reconciliation and consistently accurate filling of reports, preparation of documents, and effective performance of other duties assigned
• Organizational skills: Highly organized individual with the ability to multi-task and prioritize projects to ensure completion within assigned deadlines
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Sound analytical skills: They require strong analytical skills to create highly detailed tax reports and accurately fill out tax forms
• Communication skills: Must possess strong verbal and written communications skills necessary for explaining tax processes and making recommendations.
• 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
• 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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