Industry Focus: Trucking, Logistics, and Transportation
Job Purpose: To establish a reliable and fully controlled finance function that delivers timely financial statements, accurate cash-flow information, complete statutory compliance, effective cost control, and clear profitability reporting for trucking and transport operations.
Reporting Structure
Reports to: Finance Manager (Head Office) and Branch Operations Head
Direct Reports: 1 Accounts Assistant
Key Interactions: Operations, Logistics, Fleet, Human Resources, and Administration teams.
Key Responsibilities & Deliverables
Financial Accounting & Controls: Establish accurate and timely accounting records. Strengthen cash and expense controls, including fuel, maintenance, trip expenses, and petty cash.
Reconciliations & Receivables: Reconcile bank, cash, customer, supp
lier, and ledger accounts. Implement regular receivables and payables monitoring to improve cash-flow and collection/supplier-payment planning. Reporting & Analysis: Prepare accurate monthly management accounts. Produce truck-wise and trip-wise profitability and cost reporting. Deliver reliable financial forecasts and fleet cost analysis to support management in making informed commercial decisions.
Statutory & Tax Compliance: Ensure complete, accurate, and timely statutory and tax compliance. Ensure all financial records remain audit-ready.
System & Process Management: Review and maintain the chart of accounts and accounting system (Tally ERP). Resolve accounting errors, unreconciled balances, and control weaknesses.
Required Expertise & Competencies
Experience: Proven experience in fleet, logistics, transport, or trucking operations accounting.
Technical Skills: Strong knowledge of financial accounting, reporting, budgeting, and cash-flow forecasting. Advanced proficiency in Tally ERP (or similar ERP systems), Microsoft Excel, and management reporting. Familiarity with online bank payments.
Key Accounting Competencies: Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), bank/customer/supplier reconciliations, cost accounting, profitability analysis, and payroll/petty-cash administration.





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