Hybrid Accounts Assistant: Payroll, Ledger & Cashflow

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

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.