Accountant (UK) Hybrid

Sleek; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job 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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.

Mission:

As an Accountant, you will play a key role in providing high-quality accounting services to our clients. This position is ideal for someone with 2-3 years of experience, preferably within practice, looking to deepen their expertise and take on new responsibilities in a fast-paced, cloud-based environment. You'll collaborate with a team of experienced accountants, managing a portfolio of clients and ensuring financial accuracy.

Outcomes:

• Deliver timely and precise financial statements, management reports, and tax filings for a portfolio of SME clients.
• Ensure VAT returns, corporation tax returns, and other statutory filings are completed accurately and in accordance with relevant regulations.
• Maintain and oversee bookkeeping processes using cloud-based systems (Xero, QuickBooks), ensuring all financial records are up to date.
• As part of preparing the annual statutory accounts and management accounts for your clients, you will need to execute closing tasks, including reconciliations and variance analysis, ensuring financial accuracy and completeness.
• Provide proactive client support, assisting with transitions to cloud accounting systems and contributing to process improvement initiatives within the accounting team.

Requirements:

• ACCA/ACA/ICAEW partially qualified with supplementary experience.
• At least 2-3 years of experience in Client and Cloud Accounting or partially qualified with additional years of experience.
• Strong knowledge of Accounting, corporation tax compliance, and VAT processes and regulations.
• Proficient in Accounting Software: QuickBooks, Xero, Excel, etc.
• Experience working in a fast-growing startup and managing a large portfolio of SME clients would be advantageous.
• Working knowledge of Payroll and Personal Tax would be advantageous.

Benefits:

Some of the great things about working at Sleek...

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 2-3 days per week. 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 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 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.

Interview process:

The successful candidate will participate in the below interview stages. It might seem like a lot - but fear not - we come prepared! We anticipate the process to last no more than 3 weeks from start to finish depending on your availability.

Whether the interviews are held over video call or in person will depend on your location and the role.

Introductory call:

• A ~30 minute video call with a member of our HR team to discuss your application and get a better understanding of your experience and expectations for the role.

Career deep dive:

• A ~60 minute chat with the Hiring Manager to discuss your last couple of roles in more detail.

Case study:

• You'll have a ~45 minute chat with the Hiring Manager, where he or she will give you some real-life challenges that this role faces, and will ask for your approach to solving them.

Behavioural fit:

• A ~30 minute video call with a member of our leadership team to discuss your application and get a better understanding of your experience and expectations for the role.

Reference interviews:

• We'll have 2-3 short phone or video calls with references that you provide to us. So as to not delay your offer, we may ask your permission to have these calls earlier on in the interview process.

Requirement for background screening:

Please be aware that Sleek is a regulated entity and as such is required to perform different levels of background checks on staff depending on their role. This may include using external vendors to verify the below:

• Your education
• Any criminal history
• Any political exposure
• Any bankruptcy or adverse credit history

We will ask for your consent before conducting these checks. Depending on your role at Sleek, an adverse result on one of these checks may prohibit you from passing probation.