Accounts Payable Assistant

Salary: £28,000–£30,000 per annum depending on experience, + funded study support Role type: Permanent, full-time Location: Stoke-on-Trent (hybrid) supporting the entire group, with ad-hoc office attendance as required. Reporting to: Financial Controller About Hometree Join Hometree at the most exciting moment in our story. Founded in 2015, we've become one of the fastest-growing challengers in the UK home services market, spanning home cover that protects the essential systems in the home, renewable installations like solar, batteries and heat pumps, and the financing that makes them affordable. Together, we help homeowners look after their homes and move to greener, lower-carbon living. We're now going through the biggest step change in our history. By acquiring OVO Energy's Home Services division, including the trusted CORGI HomePlan and HomeHeat brands, we're becoming one of the UK's leading home services groups, with fresh investment to fuel our next phase of growth. It's a genuine inflection point, and we're looking for people who want to help us build what comes next. Key Achievements 🏆 UK's third-largest home cover provider: our latest acquisition makes us the third-largest provider of home cover in the UK. 🏆 7 Acquisitions - We've expanded our operations by acquiring 6 key companies across financing (Hometree Finance - formerly Bewarm), Home Cover (Your Repair) and energy services (Geowarmth, The Little Green Energy Company, IMS and GreenGen). And we have most recently announced the acquisition of OVO Home Services and CORGI Homeplan (subject to FCA approval). 🏆 500k Homes Covered - We cover over 500 hundred thousand homes across the UK 🏆 550+ Employees - We have over 550 passionate employees transforming the industry across the Group, one home at a time The Role This is a brand-new, dedicated Accounts Payable position, the first of its kind in the group. Until now, our accounts payable work has been shared across several people. We’re bringing it together into one focused role so that AP is owned, consistent and well-controlled across the group. You’ll take ownership of the day-to-day purchase ledger across our entities, working across both of our accounting platforms (Xero and QuickBooks Online), with strong automation already in place through Dext, ApprovalMax and Spendesk. You’ll process around 1,000 supplier invoices a month, run several weekly payment runs plus month-end runs, and keep our supplier relationships and reconciliations in good shape. This role suits someone with accounts payable experience who’s ready to take real ownership, including anyone looking to gain a professional qualification, which we’ll support. You’ll start with a clear, focused AP remit and the systems and support to do it well, with the scope to take on more as you develop and as the group grows. This role is designed as a launchpad. We’ll fund your professional study (for example AAT, with a route towards CIMA or ACCA as you…