Associate Manager, Accounting (Statutory reporting, Acquisitions & Tax)

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.com:

The Associate Manager, Accounting (Statutory reporting, Acquisitions & Tax) is responsible for ensuring global statutory compliance across multiple legal entities, managing the financial reporting and operational oversight of newly acquired businesses until full integration. The role also oversees direct and indirect tax accounting and compliance, transfer pricing governance, and works closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure consistent application of accounting policies, financial controls and reporting standards. 

The role requires strong technical accounting expertise, project management capabilities and the ability to collaborate across global finance, legal, tax and operational teams.

What You'll Do:

Statutory Financial Reporting

• Prepare and oversee statutory statements in accordance with the appropriate financial reporting standards.
• Manage annual statutory audits across multiple jurisdictions.
• Coordinate with external auditors and local finance teams to ensure timely completion of audits.
• Ensure compliance with local statutory filing requirements and reporting deadlines.
• Monitor changes in accounting standards and statutory regulations, implementing necessary process updates.
• Maintain statutory reporting calendars and compliance trackers within FloQast. 
• Entity Rationalization & Risk Mitigation: Lead the identification, dissolution, and streamlining of redundant or inactive corporate entities to minimize legal liabilities, regulatory compliance penalties, driving cost efficiencies and simplifying corporate structures for the business. 

Acquired Entity Financial Management and Finance Integration Leadership

• Assume financial ownership of newly acquired entities until they are fully integrated into the company’s financial organisation (Where applicable)
• Manage month-end close activities for acquired businesses.
• Review balance sheet reconciliations and financial reporting.
• Ensure compliance with Corporate accounting policies.
• Identify financial reporting risks and implement appropriate controls.
• Support acquisition accounting (Where applicable)
• Act as the primary point of contact for acquired entities during the transition period.
• Lead finance integration projects for newly acquired entities
• Develop and execute finance integration plans.
• Coordinate cross-functional integration activities with FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Legal, IT, HR and Financial operations.
• Track integration milestones and communicate project status to leadership.
• Drive process standardization across acquired entities.

Tax Accounting and Compliance

• Oversee corporate income tax accounting with the Tax operational team.
• Manage VAT/GST/Sales Tax accounting and submissions with the Tax operational team.
• Coordinate tax provision calculations with external advisors.
• Ensure timely submission of all tax returns (where applicable)

• Ensure compliance with global transfer pricing policies.
• Review intercompany transactions for compliance with transfer pricing regulations.
• Support implementation of transfer pricing adjustments.
• Assist with transfer pricing audits and information requests.
• Work closely with the Tax team and external advisors to ensure accurate transfer pricing accounting and compliance.

Financial Controls & Governance

• Ensure compliance with internal controls and processes.
• Strengthen financial processes and identify opportunities for automation.
• Review accounting policies and ensure consistent application across entities.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives within Corporate Accounting.

The above duties are an overview of the areas that the role requires, however the role is not limited to the above and requires the individual to assist with any adhoc duties assigned by the Company.

What You Have:

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field.
• Post Graduate Degree/Diploma in Accounting
• CA(SA), CPA or equivalent professional qualification preferred.

Experience and Core Competencies

• 3+ years' post articles experience in Accounting or Financial Reporting (CA(SA))
• Experience managing a team of 2+ Accounting professionals
• Strong statutory reporting experience across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience managing audits with external auditors.
• Experience managing teams.
• Experience integrating acquired businesses into corporate finance operations.
• Strong understanding of IFRS and local statutory reporting requirements.
• Strong understanding of US GAAP advantageous
• Experience with corporate taxation. 
• ERP implementation or integration experience (NetSuite, Oracle, SAP, Workday, etc.) advantageous.
• Experience within a multinational or high-growth organisation is advantageous.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent project management and organisational abilities
• High attention to detail
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities across jurisdictions
• Leadership and influencing skills
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Utilisation of AI tools for process efficiency and improvements.

Technical Skills

• Financial statement preparation
• Tax compliance
• Transfer pricing advantageous
• Acquisition accounting
• Project management
• ERP systems
• Advanced Microsoft Excel
• Financial controls
• Process improvement

Benefits:

• 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
• Primary caregiver leave
• 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 approval
• Internet Allowance
• Fitness club fee reimbursements
• 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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