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:
Exciting opportunity for a newly qualified CA(SA) to join the market leader in Partnership Automation as a Financial Analyst.
Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) is instrumental in helping to drive the decision making for Impact globally and acts as the analytical engine of our finance team to provide insights, high quality reporting and support business decision making. You will be a key functional member of Impact’s financial forecasting, annual budgeting processes, operating plan variance analysis and special projects.
You will be a key functional member of impact.com's financial forecasting, annual budgeting processes, operating plan variance analysis, and special projects.
What you'll do:
- Prepares financial and business related analysis and research in such areas as financial and expense performance, cost of sales, cash flow forecasting, and working capital
- Prepares consolidated forecasts and budgets and analyzes trends in revenue, expense, capital expenditures and other related areas
- Financial instruments accounting
- Assist with updating the company’s forecasting model monthly with information from the accounting systems and updating expense and revenue forecasts based on actual business events and timelines
- Monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance this involves updating the company dashboards and providing analysis
- Develop financial models and analysis to support strategic initiatives
- Compiles and prepares reports, graphs and charts of data developed
- Assists with special financial and business related studies and cooperates with other departments in preparing analyses
- Assist with compilation and analysis of consolidated budgets and long range plans
- Maintains and coordinates group completion of financial review templates and meetings
- Prepare presentations to Board of Directors and Senior Management Team
- Ad hoc analyses, as needed
- Support functional area leaders in development of their annual Expense and Capital budgets
- Provide monthly financial reporting and variance analysis
- Ensure budget holders understand their performance vs. budget
- Develop comprehensive monthly forecasts, with input from budget holders on all assumptions
- Work with budget holders to rebalance their plans, in response to changes in business priorities
- Prepare revised Quarterly Budgets for the company as the fiscal year progresses from each quarter to the next
- Monthly, prepare company forecasts in collaboration with cross-functional team members and provide explanations for variances from prior expectations
- Develop business cases in support of new investment opportunities, and work with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive initiative budgets
- Develop, track, and analyze key operational metrics for each functional area
Does this sound like you?
- Newly qualified CA(SA) with Big Four audit firm experience (preferred)
- Relevant working experience within finance/audit/advisory/investment banking sectors (preferred)
- B.Com/B.Sc Degree or relevant financial qualification
- Experience preparing management accounts and financial statements
- Experience in financial analysis and modeling
- Strong understanding of accounting
- Problem solver, highly analytical, results oriented, timeliness, attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to work in a fast paced, high energy and high responsibility environment
- Excellent communication skills, able to present at board level
- Influencing and Negotiation: Ability to influence at all levels, as well as a demonstrated ability to work effectively within a team and be assertive in driving successful management strategies
- Relationship Management: Able to build constructive and effective relationships with a broad and diverse group of business partners
- Communication Skills: Demonstrates strong listening, written and oral communication skill
- Nice to have: Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA
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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