Job Description
About impact.com
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.
Your Role at impact.com
impact.com is on the search for a Cash Accountant to join our amazing Corporate Accounting team based in Cape Town. This person will be a part of the team responsible for assisting with the daily and monthly cash requirements of over 90 bank accounts globally.
This person will report to the Accounting Manager in the Corporate Accounting team.
What You’ll Do
- Perform monthly bank and balance sheet reconciliations timeously to meet strict Month-end close deadline
- Follow up and resolve reconciling differences in a timely manner
- Extracting and updating cash statements on a daily basis
- Download and archive official bank statements at the end of the month
- Download and archiving bank reconciliations at the end of the month
- Importing daily cash transactions into Netsuite and archiving daily imports
- Process month end adjusting journal entries - mainly operating cash accounts
- Process interbank transfers and intercompany journals across various currencies, ensuring precision in FX conversion and subsidiary alignment
- Manage the timely completion of audit requests
- Support on Ad hoc accounting projects
- Assist with resolving queries issued by Management
- Collaborate closely with internal operational teams to investigate transaction origins and business context, minimizing coding errors and ensuring the integrity of the General Ledger
What You Bring
- Completed accounting degree
- Previous experience in performing cash reconciliations advantageous
- Minimum of 1-2 years’ experience in high growth multi-national organisations
- Experience working across multiple geographies, including the US, Europe, South Africa, Singapore, Australia, and China
- Excellent multi-tasker who understands the urgency of month-end deadlines; able to manage multiple review points and iterations independently.
- Strong verbal and written communicator; reliable and responsive to stakeholders across different time zones.
- An independent, self-motivated individual who works well under pressure with a positive, service-oriented attitude.
- Highest level of integrity and good judgment, with the ability to effectively handle highly sensitive and confidential financial information.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to use advanced formulas (e.g., SUMIFS with wildcards, XLOOKUP, Pivot Tables) to manipulate large data sets and bridge gaps between bank reports and the GL.
- Possesses a proactive interest in Emerging AI Technologies and their application within Finance.
Benefits and Perks
At impact.com, we believe that when you’re happy and fulfilled, you do your best work. That’s why we’ve built a benefits package that supports your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.
- Flexible Working: Our Responsible PTO policy means you can take the time off you need to rest and recharge. We’re committed to a positive work-life balance and provide a flexible environment that allows you to be happy and fulfilled in both your career and your personal life.
- Health and Wellness: Your well-being is a priority. Our mental health and wellness benefit includes up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage. We also offer a monthly gym reimbursement policy to support your physical health.
- A Stake in Our Growth: We offer Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of our total compensation, giving you a stake in the company’s growth with a 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
- Investing in Your Growth: We’re committed to your continuous learning. Take advantage of our free Coursera subscription and our PXA courses.
- Parental Support: We offer a generous parental leave policy, 26 weeks of fully paid leave for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks fully paid leave for the secondary caregiver.
- Technology Financial Support: We provide a technology stipend to help you set up your home office and a monthly allowance to cover your internet expenses.
Note: Benefits may vary by location and are subject to local regulations.
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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