Payroll Accountant

Our Company:

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, Fanatics and Levi’s, visit www.impact.com.

Your Role at Impact:

The basic purpose of this position is to fill a need in the Finance department for someone to own the payroll accounting, analysis and reporting. The individual will be responsible for building out key payroll accounting processes and implementing improvements in the existing processes. Furthermore, the individual 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 business objectives. This individual is a fast learner, self-starter and capable of producing work of high quality without close supervision.

What You'll Do:

• Under limited supervision, responsible for payroll accounting activities relating to the maintenance of a complete and accurate general ledger across the various subsidiaries within the group.
• Overall responsibility for payroll accounting 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 payroll system input and ensuring those inputs are complete, valid and accurate. 
• Implementing balance sheet reconciliation initiatives ensuring balance sheet accounts within the scope of payroll accounting are built (if this does not exist) and maintaining these schedules on a monthly basis as part of the close process. 
• Responsible for ensuring that a reconciliation exists between the payroll system and the ERP system (should there be any reconciling items, ensuring this is appropriately followed up on and timeously addressed and cleared out).
• Ensure all unreconciled and aged transactions on the reconciliations are appropriately and timeously addressed.
• Work closely with other business units and cross functional teams to implement new initiatives and projects
• Collaborate and support the FP&A function on an adhoc basis.
• Assisting with Group and statutory audits. In addition, assisting with all compliance procedures in relation to payroll.
• Respond to ad hoc requests and prepare any necessary internal reporting as needed.
• Proactively anticipate and identify issues and design solutions to address them.

 What You Have:

• 3-4 years of experience in a similar position.
• 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.
• 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.

Nice to have:

 Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA

Benefits/Perks:

• Casual work environment, including working from home
• Flexible work hours
• 6 month primary caregiver leave
• Fitness club fee reimbursements
• 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
• 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
• Technology Stipend

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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