Group Accountant

impact.com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products—Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral)—unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

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. 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.

Description of the duties and responsibilities assigned to this position (both individual and supervisory, if applicable)

• →Under limited supervision, responsible for accounting 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 accounting activities including the monthly close processes, ensuring that these areas are closed accurately and timeously in line with Finance close objectives each month.
• →Further to the above, responsible for consuming and developing the operational system input and ensuring those inputs are complete, valid and accurate. 
• →Implementing and maintaining balance sheet reconciliation initiatives ensuring balance sheet account reconciliations are built (if this does not exist) and maintaining these schedules on a monthly basis as part of the close process. 
• →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.
• →Ensure all unreconciled and aged transactions on the reconciliations are appropriately and timeously addressed.
• →Collaborate and support the FP&A function on an ad hoc basis.
• →Assisting with Group and statutory audits. In addition, assisting with all compliance procedures.
• →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.

• Newly qualified CA(SA) (0-2 years post articles)
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting/similar degree in finance.
• Experience as a self-starter who can manage multiple projects and priorities in a highly complex environment with evolving priorities and deadlines.
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools and technologies, with the ability to leverage them to improve workflows or decision-making.
• 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.