General Accountant M/F

	General Accountant M/F

General informations

White Horse Carriers (Zalawi / Whitehorse), based in South Africa, is company of Africa Global Logistics, a division of the MSC Group.  It has developed its expertise over 50 years in road haulage and currently runs over 500 trucks on the corridor from Durban / Walvis Bay to the Copperbelt and Katanga region with a local work force of 600 astute professionals. It is one of the largest cross-border transportation companies operating in the southern region of Africa. With over 50 years of experience and a fleet of more than 520 vehicles, we are committed to providing reliable and efficient transport services across borders. Join our team and be a part of a leading logistics company dedicated to excellence and innovation in the transportation industry.

Job description

Mission Description                      

Job Purpose:
To The General Accountant is responsible for maintaining accurate financial records, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and company policies, supporting financial reporting, managing general ledger activities, and providing financial insights to support operational and strategic decision-making within the logistics business.

Responsibilities

Deferred Cost Processing (Monthly)
• Manage and process monthly deferred cost schedules, ensuring accurate recognition, allocation, and amortisation of costs.
• Maintain and review deferred costs relating to licences, insurance, road permits, and other applicable prepaid or deferred expenses.
• Ensure all deferred cost journals and supporting schedules are complete, accurate, and aligned with accounting standards and company policies.

VAT Management & Compliance
• Prepare and submit monthly VAT returns accurately and within statutory deadlines.
• Perform VAT reasonability checks to validate the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of VAT submissions.
• Prepare detailed VAT reconciliations between the general ledger and SARS/ZRA submissions, ensuring reconciling items are investigated and resolved.
• Monitor ongoing VAT compliance with applicable tax legislation and reporting requirements, escalating risks or discrepancies where necessary.

Intercompany Accounting
• Manage intercompany loan accounts, including the accurate calculation, posting, and review of interest entries.
• Reconcile intercompany balances and ensure alignment between related entities, with variances investigated and resolved timeously.

Prepaid Accounts Management
• Monitor prepaid accounts to ensure adequate funding levels are maintained for operational requirements.
• Perform regular reconciliations of prepaid balances to ensure accuracy, completeness, and appropriate allocation of transactions.
• Investigate and resolve variances promptly, ensuring all reconciling items are supported and cleared timeously.

Month - end procedures
• Prepare and maintain monthly provisions files, ensuring accruals and supporting calculations are accurate and complete.
• Complete month-end reporting files in line with internal deadlines and reporting requirements.
• Perform month-end balancing procedures to ensure the accuracy and completeness of financial information.
• Perform monthly foreign currency revaluations and ensure exchange rates are accurately loaded and applied.
• Review age analysis reports and provide accurate reporting on outstanding balances and overdue items.
• Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring reconciling items are investigated and resolved timeously.

 

Profile

Tax
• Ensure compliance with applicable tax legislation, statutory reporting requirements, and company policies.
• Maintain working knowledge of withholding tax requirements and ensure correct application where applicable.
• Assist with tax-related reconciliations, supporting documentation, and responses to internal or external tax queries.

General
• Respond to and resolve finance-related queries accurately and timeously.
• Support the Accounts Manager with daily operational and reporting duties as required.
• Assist with the preparation and compilation of expense budgets.
• Provide support in responding to internal and external audit queries.
• Perform ad-hoc duties and special assignments as required by management.
• Review accounts payable journals to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with company procedures.
• Review general ledger transactions and ensure correct allocation, classification, and posting of entries.
• Conduct petty cash spot checks and perform month-end petty cash counts to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with company procedures.

Minimum Education, Experience Requirements & Core Competencies
• Accounting diploma/ BCom Accounting degree
• Audit articles will be advantageous
• 3–5 years of accounting experience, preferably within logistics, transportation, supply chain, or distribution industries.
• Requires excellent organizational skills and time management skills and the ability to handle sensitive information confidentially.
• Advance MS Excel with strong focus on working knowledge of V-lookups and Pivots
• Ability to define and implement a process.
• Works well under pressure and meets tight deadlines.