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
Reporting to: Financial Controller

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 Home Plan and Home Heat 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.

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 Green Gen). 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

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 Quick Books Online), with strong automation already in place through Dext, Approval Max 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 progress) and give you real, hands‑on experience across a multi‑entity group. As Hometree grows and the finance function scales, so will your opportunities - we want the person who joins us in this role to grow into something bigger.

Responsibilities:

• Process supplier invoices: accurately code and post around 1,000 invoices a month across the group’s entities, using Dext to capture and Approval Max to route approvals to the right budget holders.

• Run supplier payments: prepare and process several weekly payment runs plus month-end runs across all entities, making sure suppliers are paid accurately, on time and with the right approvals in place.

• Reconcile supplier statements: reconcile statements to the ledger, investigate and resolve discrepancies, and keep supplier master data clean and accurate.

• Own the aged creditors ledger: monitor AP ageing across entities, chase down open and overdue items, and flag anything unusual or disputed.

• Support subcontractor (CIS) payments: process payments to subcontractors, apply CIS deductions and help prepare monthly CIS returns, working under the supervision of the Financial Controller.

• Resolve queries: be a friendly, professional first point of contact for suppliers and internal colleagues on invoice and…