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 across 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 17,500 customers across our offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and the UK. We have around 600 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 Asia Pacific.
Requirements
Mission of the role
Prepare bookkeeping, VAT returns and draft year end accounts for UK small business clients. You work in a pod of five led by a UK-based Senior Accounts Manager: two senior accountants, two accountants and a bookkeeper, serving around 300 UK small business clients from January and growing to around 500 through 2027. Until the manager starts in January, you work in one of our existing UK teams. A Senior Accountant reviews your work. Your work is on time and right the first time, and as you grow you take on year end accounts and corporation tax returns.
What you’ll do
Keep clients’ books up to date in Xero: bank reconciliations, sales and purchase ledgers, and month and year end adjustments.
Prepare VAT returns under Making Tax Digital for review.
Prepare draft year end accounts and, as you grow, corporation tax returns.
Check your own work before sending it for review, and act on corrections.
Chase clients early for missing records, and tell your Senior Accountant in good time when a deadline is at risk.
Keep client records and workflow data accurate.
Use the AI tools we are building into our products and workflow
Key outcomes in the first 6–12 months
Your bookkeeping and VAT returns are ready for review before their deadlines, with client delays chased early and recorded.
Your work needs fewer review rounds, measured from when you start.
By month 12, you prepare draft year end accounts and CT600s for review, not just bookkeeping and VAT.
Workflow data for your clients is accurate and up to date.
Must-have experience
A degree in commerce, accounting or finance (for example B.Com or BS Accountancy).
At least 2 years in accounting, including at least 1 on UK clients: bookkeeping, bank reconciliations and VAT returns.
Confident with Xero, QuickBooks or a similar cloud accounting package.
Written English good enough to email UK clients directly.
Based in India or the Philippines, with the right to work there.
Able to work a shift that overlaps UK business hours.
Nice to have
Has prepared draft UK year end accounts or CT600s
Must-have attributes
Ownership: you finish what you start and fix problems rather than pass them on.
Accuracy: you check your own numbers before anyone else has to.
Takes feedback well: you act on corrections and don’t make the same mistake twice.
Great communicator: clear in writing, with UK clients and with your reviewer.
Process, data and compliance: you follow the process…