Accountant - UK

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 500 staff with an intact startup mindset.

We have recently raised Series B financing off the back of >70% compound annual growth in Revenue over the last 5 years. Sleek has 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.

We are looking for an Accountant that is excited about the below Mission and Outcome.

Mission: Manage a portfolio of clients and their accounting needs. Deliver excellent client experience.

Outcomes:

• Prepare year end accounts for limited companies, partnerships and sole traders
• Corporation tax returns
• VAT returns
• Bookkeeping, where required
• Personal Tax returns
• Deliver an excellent client experience
• Liaise with clients

Must have experience:

• Qualified accountant (AAT as a minimum) with 2+ years post qualification experience
• Strong working knowledge of UK GAAP, corporation tax, VAT, and proficiency with accounting software, Xero.
• Experience managing year end statutory accounts.

Behavioural fit is also important at Sleek, and we will be looking for candidates that have a proven track record of embodying the below attributes in their recent roles:

Ownership: This shows reliability and helps build trust within the team. We move fast and need to know that everyone will see things through to completion and proactively help to get things back on track when challenges arise. Accountability is really important to us.

Humility: There is so much we don't know. Humility allows for open mindedness to feedback and a willingness to learn from others. It paves the way for collaboration and creates a positive etc ,