Accounts Assistant

Dolphin Living; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

London location

27 days leave + bank holidays

Job summary

Dolphin Living is a London-based affordable housing organisation seeking an Accounts Assistant to join the finance team. You will handle transactional finance, payroll administration and reporting support in a hybrid role.

Working full-time or part-time with three in-office days, you’ll collaborate across departments, support year-end tasks and audits, and help maintain accurate financial records for the organisation’s portfolio of homes across London.

Qualifications

• Solid experience across transactional finance activities.
• Experience administering and processing payroll, including salary payments, deductions and liaising with HMRC and pension providers.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word, alongside an understanding of financial management systems.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience within housing or property would be advantageous, although it isn't essential.

Responsibilities

• Processing purchase invoices, matching orders, setting up payments for authorisation and issuing remittances.
• Raising sales and intercompany invoices, maintaining the sales ledger and tracking intercompany invoices and margins.
• Maintaining cashbooks and preparing bank reconciliations across the Group's bank accounts.
• Reconciling nominal ledger accounts, including intercompany balances, loans, pensions control accounts and other key accounts.
• Supporting treasury activities, including preparing monthly cashflows, coordinating fund placements and withdrawals, and ensuring appropriate controls are followed.
• Maintaining payroll records, processing salary payments, managing deductions and expenses, liaising with HMRC and pension providers, and posting payroll journals.
• Processing company credit card submissions, raising purchase orders and carrying out internal control checks to ensure compliance with procurement policies.
• Assisting with year-end accounts, audit schedules, internal audit and other financial reporting projects.
• Providing wider support to the finance team when required, alongside general office administration and coordination.

Skills

Transactional finance

Payroll administration

Excel

Communication skills

Housing/Property experience (advantage

Tools

Financial management systems

Job description

Working arrangements: Full-time or part-time considered

Hybrid working: 3 days per week in the office, pro rata for part-time arrangements

Contract type: Permanent

Goodman Masson is delighted to be partnering exclusively with Dolphin Living to appoint an Accounts Assistant.

This is an opportunity to join an established finance team, supporting a broad range of financial activities across transactional finance, treasury, payroll and pensions. You'll play an important role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of the finance function, maintaining accurate financial records and supporting the wider team with reporting, audit and other projects.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Financial Controller, you'll take responsibility for a varied workload spanning purchase and sales ledger activities, bank reconciliations, cash management, payroll administration and financial controls.

You'll work closely with colleagues across finance and the wider organisation, as well as external stakeholders including banks, lenders, auditors and suppliers. Alongside your core accounting responsibilities, you'll contribute to year-end activities, internal and external audits, and general office administration.

The organisation is open to both full-time and part-time working arrangements, offering flexibility for the right candidate.

You'll be responsible for

• Processing purchase invoices, matching orders, setting up payments for authorisation and issuing remittances.
• Raising sales and intercompany invoices, maintaining the sales ledger and tracking intercompany invoices and margins.
• Maintaining cashbooks and preparing bank reconciliations across the Group's bank accounts.
• Reconciling nominal ledger accounts, including intercompany balances, loans, pensions control accounts and other key accounts.
• Supporting treasury activities, including preparing monthly cashflows, coordinating fund placements and withdrawals, and ensuring appropriate controls are followed.
• Maintaining payroll records, processing salary payments, managing deductions and expenses, liaising with HMRC and pension providers, and posting payroll journals.
• Processing company credit card submissions, raising purchase orders and carrying out internal control checks to ensure compliance with procurement policies.
• Assisting with year-end accounts, audit schedules, internal audit and other financial reporting projects.
• Providing wider support to the finance team when required, alongside general office administration and coordination.

About Dolphin Living

Dolphin Living is a London-based affordable housing organisation with 800+ homes across nine London boroughs, with a further 300 homes in the pipeline.

Their mission is to provide high-quality, affordable homes for working Londoners, helping people live closer to where they work while creating stable communities across the capital.

As the organisation continues to grow, this is an opportunity to join a team where you'll contribute to the effective running of the finance function and gain exposure to a broad range of financial activities.

What are we looking for?

We're looking for someone with solid transactional finance experience, strong attention to detail and a proactive approach to their work. You'll be comfortable managing a varied workload, working collaboratively with colleagues and building positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Required experience

• Solid experience across transactional finance activities
• Experience administering and processing payroll, including salary payments, deductions and liaising with HMRC and pension providers
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word, alongside an understanding of financial management systems
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience within housing or property would be advantageous, although it isn't essential

What's on offer?

• Permanent position with full-time or part-time hours considered
• Victoria, London
• Hybrid working - 3 days per week in the office, pro rata for part-time arrangements
• 27 days annual leave + bank holidays