Finance Officer

St Leger Homes of Doncaster; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A public sector housing management organization in Doncaster is seeking a Finance Officer to support budget monitoring and provide financial information. The role requires an AAT qualification or progress towards it, effective analytical and communication skills, and experience with financial systems. Responsibilities include assisting in budget checking, financial data extraction, and ensuring timely transaction processing. The position offers competitive salary and benefits including a generous leave policy and pension contribution.

Benefits

Generous annual leave allocation

Pension scheme contribution

Medicash Health package

Qualifications

• Organized and innovative individual with excellent communication skills.
• Experience with financial systems and processing large volumes of transactions.
• Good practices for handling confidential data.

Responsibilities

• Assist in budget monitoring and investigate variances.
• Extract financial data for budget holders.
• Ensure timely processing and reconciliation of transactions.

Skills

Effective interpersonal and communication skills

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Education

AAT Qualified or Working Towards AAT Qualification

Tools

Microsoft Excel

e5 Advanced accounting software

HousingOne / OpenHousing

Job description

Salary

Grade 3 to 4 (£27,254 - £33,699)

Contractual Hours

37 hours per week

Basis

Full time

Region

Doncaster

Job category/type

Finance

Date posted

13/01/2026

Job reference

REQ22050

Grade/Salary

Grade 3 (£27,254 - £28,142) to Grade 4 (£31,022 - £33,699) dependent on AAT qualification

Hours/Type

Full time 37 hours per week permanent

Location

Civic Office

Closing Date

28 January 2026

We are recruiting to the post of Finance Officer in the Accounts Team within Finance from February 2026.

St Leger Homes (SLHD) is an Arms Length Management Organisation (ALMO), created by City of Doncaster Council (CDC) in 2005 to manage, maintain and improve CDC’s housing and related stock.

Since then, we have continued to improve the condition and safety of our homes, the support we offer tenants and the outcomes we achieve for CDC. We also run other services for CDC including the homelessness service, lettings, a private lettings agency and resident employment and education services.

About The Role

This is a key supporting role in a constantly very busy team environment, providing timely and accurate financial and management information to a wide range of budget holders, customers, clients and key stakeholders. Successful delivery of this information enables Budget Holders to robustly control their budgets and to ensure all reporting timetables for SLHD and Doncaster Council are met.

SLHD utilises e5 Advanced accounting software and its related P2P module, with HousingOne / OpenHousing (Capita/MRI) as its main, fully integrated housing management system.

In addition to these, a number of other housing and employee related ICT sub-systems are in operation that interface with these two main operating systems.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assisting in budget monitoring, checking transactions and investigating variances.
• Extracting financial data from the financial ledgers and purchase ordering system for colleagues and budget holders.
• Ensuring timely and efficient processing onto the general ledgers and subsequent reconciliation, reporting and monitoring of all transactions and journals.
• Assisting with processing of purchase invoices through our P2P and HousingOne AP systems.

About You

We are looking for an organized, innovative individual with an attention to detail and good communication skills to work in a busy environment and who has experience, ability and knowledge as summarised below.

Qualifications

• AAT Qualified or Working Towards AAT Qualification.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work under pressure and to tight reporting deadlines; problem solving with strong analytical skills and an attention to detail; awareness of Auditing and Accounting Standards, HMRC rules and regulations (e.g., VAT, CIS).
• Experience of using financial systems and processing and analysis of large volumes of transactions working with various database systems and extracting data to produce financial information; displaying complex financial information to non-finance personnel.
• Use of industry standard software such as Microsoft Office products, particularly Excel spreadsheets including advanced functions.
• Good practices for handling confidential data, in line with the Data Protection Act, GDPR, and other relevant legislation.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave allocation.
• St Leger contribution to personal pension scheme.
• Medicash Health package.

Please complete the online application form. St Leger Homes will not accept CVs as a form of applying for these positions.

For further details, please contact Steve Andrews or Nigel Feirn.