Senior Accountant

November 13

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Sleek

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Company Registration • Corporate Secretary • Business Account • Accounting • Bookkeeping

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

🏢 Enterprise

💸 Finance

☁️ SaaS

Description

• About Sleek: Through proprietary software and AI, along with a focus on customer delight, Sleek makes the back-office easy for micro SMEs. • We give Entrepreneurs time back to focus on what they love doing - growing their business and being with customers. With a surging number of Entrepreneurs globally, we are innovating in a highly lucrative space. • We operate 3 business segments: • Corporate Secretary: Automating the company incorporation, secretarial, filing, Nominee Director, mailroom and immigration processes via custom online robots and SleekSign. We are the market leaders in Singapore with ~5% market share of all new business incorporations. • Accounting & Bookkeeping: Redefining what it means to do Accounting, Bookkeeping, Tax, and Payroll thanks to our proprietary SleekBooks ledger, AI tools, and exceptional customer service. • FinTech payments: Overcoming a key challenge for Entrepreneurs by offering digital banking services to new businesses. • Sleek launched in 2017 and now has around 15,000 customers across our offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and the UK. We have around 450 staff with an intact startup mindset. • We have achieved >70% compound annual growth in Revenue over the last 5 years and as a result have been recognised by The Financial Times, The Straits Times, Forbes, and LinkedIn as one of the fastest growing companies in Asia. Backed by world-class investors, we are on track to be one of the few cash flow positive, tech-enabled unicorns based out of Singapore.

Requirements

• ACA/ICAEW qualification or partially qualified with supplementary UK accounting experience • A minimum of 3 years working in client and cloud accounting, ideally handling UK-based SME clients • Demonstrated experience in managing statutory accounts, corporation tax compliance, VAT filings, and familiarity with UK regulatory standards • Proficiency in accounting software such as QuickBooks, Xero, and Excel • Strong working knowledge of UK accounting, corporation tax, and VAT processes, including statutory requirements and filing deadlines • Proven ability to build and maintain client relationships, with excellent client-facing and communication skills • Experience supporting clients with transitions to cloud-based systems, especially Xero and QuickBooks • Experience managing or mentoring a team of junior accountants, providing guidance on daily tasks, performance, and training • Familiarity with payroll and personal tax processes is an advantage • Experience working in a fast-growing start-up or scale-up environment and handling a large portfolio of SME clients • Strong analytical skills with a focus on accuracy, compliance, and continuous improvement within accounting processes

Benefits

• Humility and kindness: Humility is a core attribute we hire for, which means we have a culture of not taking ourselves too seriously and being able to laugh. Kindness is also incredibly important. We are committed to creating and nurturing a diverse and inclusive environment. • Flexibility: You’ll be able to work from home. If you need to start early or start late to cater to your family or other needs, we don’t mind, so long as you get your work done and proactively communicate. You can also work fully remote from anywhere in the world for 1 month each year • Financial benefits: We pay competitive market salaries and provide staff with generous paid time off and holiday schedules. Additionally, you’ll be able to access our £650 pa flexi benefits scheme for home office equipment or health and fitness expenditure. Certain staff at Sleek are also eligible for our employee share ownership plan and can share in the upside of our stellar growth trajectory as we work toward listing on a prominent stock exchange in the Asia Pacific region. • Personal growth: You’ll get a lot of responsibility and autonomy at Sleek - we move at a fast pace so you’ll be making decisions, making mistakes and learning. There’s also a range of internal and external facing training programmes we run. We’re also at the forefront of utilising AI in our space and are developing a regional centre of AI excellence. It is our intention that if you leave Sleek, you leave as a more well-rounded person and professional. • Sleek is also a proudly certified B Corp. Since we started our journey in 2017, we’ve been committed to building Sleek as a force for good. In just over 5 years, we’ve joined a community of industry leaders like Patagonia, Ben & Jerry's, and P&G who are building an inclusive, equitable, and a regenerative economy. We have planted over 29,271 trees to reforest our ecosystem and saved 7 tons of paper from landfills by processing over 1.4M pages through SleekSign. We aim to be Carbon Neutral by 2030.