Key Responsibilities
1. Branch Accounting & SAP
- Manage day-to-day accounting activities for multiple branches/diagnostic centres.
- Ensure accurate posting of debit and credit entries, journal vouchers, receipts, payments and GL transactions in SAP.
- Review branch-wise income, expenses, receivables and payables.
- Ensure timely month-end and year-end closing in SAP.
- Monitor branch-wise P&L, Balance Sheet and Trial Balance.
- Review inter-branch transactions and ensure proper reconciliation.
- Ensure correct cost-centre, profit-centre and GL mapping in SAP.
- Identify and rectify accounting errors and discrepancies.
2. Accounts Payable & Vendor Payments
- Review and approve vendor bills, purchase invoices and expense claims.
- Ensure proper verification of PO/GRN/Invoice wherever applicable before payment.
- Prepare and monitor vendor payment schedules.
- Manage vendor outstanding and ageing reports.
- Ensure timely payment to vendors, doctors, consultants and service providers.
- Reconcile vendor ledgers and resolve outstanding discrepancies.
- Monitor advances and deposits given to vendors.
3. Accounts Receivable & Revenue Accounting
- Monitor branch-wise collections and outstanding receivables.
- Reconcile diagnostic/hospital billing with accounting records.
- Monitor corporate, insurance and TPA receivables, wherever applicable.
- Ensure accurate revenue recognition and accounting.
- Review collection reports and investigate variances.
- Track overdue receivables and coordinate with concerned teams for recovery.
4. Salary & Payroll Accounting
- Review monthly salary sheets and payroll-related accounting entries.
- Ensure accurate accounting of salary, incentives, reimbursements, deductions, PF, ESIC, TDS and other employee-related payments.
- Coordinate with HR for payroll inputs, attendance and employee master data.
- Ensure timely salary disbursement.
- Reconcile payroll with SAP/GL and bank statements.
5. Bank & Cash Management
- Monitor daily bank transactions and fund requirements.
- Review bank reconciliation statements on a regular basis.
- Monitor cash collections, deposits and branch cash balances.
- Ensure proper accounting of receipts, payments, bank charges and transfers.
- Coordinate with banks for payment processing and other banking requirements.
- Maintain adequate cash-flow planning.
6. Audit & Compliance
- Coordinate internal, statutory and tax audits.
- Prepare audit schedules, supporting documents and reconciliations.
- Ensure timely closure of audit observations.
- Maintain proper documentation and audit trails.
- Ensure compliance with applicable accounting policies and internal SOPs.
- Coordinate with auditors, consultants and statutory authorities.
7. GST, TDS & Statutory Compliance
- Ensure timely and accurate GST-related accounting and reconciliations.
- Review GST input/output records and reconciliation.
- Monitor TDS deductions, payments and returns.
- Ensure compliance with PF, ESIC, Professional Tax and other applicable statutory requirements.
- Coordinate with tax consultants for statutory filings, assessments and notices.
8. Financial Reporting & MIS
- Prepare monthly P&L, Balance Sheet, Trial Balance and Cash Flow reports.
- Prepare branch-wise and centre-wise financial MIS.
- Analyse revenue, expenses, profitability and cost trends.
- Prepare budget vs. actual variance analysis.
- Provide management with financial insights and recommendations.
- Monitor working capital, receivables and payables.
9. Internal Controls
- Establish and monitor financial controls across branches.
- Ensure proper authorization for purchases, expenses and payments.
- Review unusual debit/credit balances and financial transactions.
- Prevent accounting errors, revenue leakages and unauthorized payments.
- Ensure compliance with Finance SOPs and approval matrix.
10. Team Management
- Lead and supervise the finance/accounts team across branches.
- Allocate responsibilities and monitor team performance.
- Review accounting work and provide guidance on complex transactions.
- Train team members on SAP, accounting procedures and internal controls.
- Coordinate with HR, Operations, Procurement, Sales, IT and Branch teams.