Whether we’re dealing with colleagues or customers, we follow The Golden Rule, treating others the way we want to be treated. It’s a simple rule, but it’s also significant: we don’t prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.
CALM FOCUS
We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fast-paced and stressful industries. So it’s important that we focus on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next. If something is out of scope, we say “No.” If something feels rushed, we pump the brakes. This calm focus helps us create solutions our customers love.
ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM
Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers’ experience holistically, and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams. This approach extends to cooperation among our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage, and Homeward Title — and results in a better home-buying experience.
About the opportunity
Homeward is looking for an Accounts Payable Specialist to oversee the accounts payable function and corporate credit card expenditures processes. This role will require the use of skills in project management, organization, and timely and frequent communications in the A/P and corporate credit card expenditure processes. As the A/P Specialist, you will ensure the accuracy and efficiency of payables operations, investigate oddities, and process and monitor outgoing payments. Reporting directly to the Accounting Manager, this role will be a hands-on, solution-oriented problem solver who can oversee these processes to keep up with the demands of Homeward’s high-growth business.
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Responsibilities include
- Oversee accounts payable (in Bill.com): including ensuring the completeness and accuracy of G/L coding, invoice amounts, department coding, invoice timing, approval workflows, etc.
- Oversee corporate credit card expenditures (in Divvy): including ensuring the completeness and accuracy of G/L coding, receipt amounts, department coding, etc.
- Directly communicate with vendors, contractors, and internal cross-functional department employees on invoices and payment details.
- Manage one employee who performs some of the initial tasks for A/P and corporate credit card expenditures and review their work to ensure it is complete and accurate.
- Recognize and set up 1099 vendors (we can assist in training here if necessary)
- Complete annual 1099-NEC, 1099-MISC, 1099-INT filings (we can assist in training here if necessary)
- Ensure that payment approval workflows go to the correct department-level employees for approval.
- Coordinate and manage the organization of invoices, contracts, and agreements
- Directly communicate with department leaders on invoice approvals and AP issues
- Maintain bookkeeping records and key spreadsheets
- Assisting the Accounting Manager in the month end close process on tasks related to the expenditures/payables process.
- Continuous evaluation of current policies and recommendations for process improvements.
Qualifications
- You have a Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, or finance or equivalent experience
- You have 3+ years experience with mid-to-high volume AP processing.
- Must possess a high degree of accuracy in work; detail oriented.
- Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills.
- You have demonstrated the ability to patiently and efficiently perform in a fast-paced environment and handle and manage multiple workloads, priorities and deadlines, while maintaining a great attitude during tight deadlines.
- You must have a solution-oriented approach to solving problems, preferring to place focus on the best way to solve problems rather than focusing only on the problems themselves
- You have strong problem solving skills, and do research to independently solve problems.
- You have strong technical skills in Excel (strong understanding of vlookups, pivot tables, sumifs)
- Experience with Netsuite is highly preferred.
- Experience with Bill.com is highly preferred.
- Experience with multiple entities is highly preferred.
About Homeward
Buying a home should be an exciting milestone. But all too often, it’s stressful, especially in a competitive market or when you’re buying and selling at the same time. So we’re redesigning the homebuying experience. We’re a fast-paced real estate startup that empowers agents to help homebuyers buy with cash. We buy homes on behalf of our partners’ clients with our cash, then the client buys the home back from us.
Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, a 10-year industry veteran and owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018. In fact, he bought our first customer’s home with his own life savings. Today we offer two services — Buy with cash and Buy before you sell — in Texas, Colorado, Georgia, Florida, Oregon, and Washington.
We’ve raised more than $160MM in equity capital from top-tier venture investors, including Norwest, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, Adams Street, Javelin, and LiveOak. Our leadership team includes experts from the real estate, mortgage, and technology industries.