Payroll Accountant at Impact

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.