Cash Accountant at Impact

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.