Client Accounting Manager

Sleek; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Sleek is looking for a qualified accountant with experience in cloud accounting for SMEs. The role involves preparing financial statements, ensuring compliance with tax regulations and managing a team. The company values personal growth and offers flexibility in work arrangements.

Benefits

Health care allowance

Pension scheme with employer contribution

Discretionary performance bonus

Paid sick leave

Supportive colleagues and career development

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in accounting or partially qualified with relevant experience.
• Extensive knowledge of accounting practices and compliance.
• Working knowledge of payroll and personal tax is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and review statutory annual accounts for SME clients.
• Build and maintain relationships with clients.
• Manage and support a team of accountants.

Skills

Accounting

Client Management

Corporation Tax Compliance

VAT Processes

Proficiency in Quickbooks, Xero, Excel

Education

AAT, ACA, ICAEW or ACCA qualified

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:

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, generative AI tools and exceptional customer service

Business banking: 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, but we think and act more like a startup than a large corporation.

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.

Some other 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 have zero tolerance for anyone that is aggressive or mean - 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 make key calls, get your work done and proactively communicate. You can also work fully remote from anywhere in the world for 1 month each year

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.

Requirements

To excel in this role, you will need:

• AAT, ACA, ICAEW or ACCA qualified or partially qualified with supplementary experience
• At least 5 years of experience as a Client and Cloud Accounting, or partially qualified with additional years of experience
• Extensive knowledge of Accounting, corporation tax compliance and VAT processes and regulations
• Proficient in Accounting Software: Quickbook, Xero, Excel etc.
• Working in a fast growing start up and with a large portfolio of SME Clientele would be advantageous
• Working knowledge of Payroll and Personal Tax would be advantageous

Your daily tasks will include:

• Preparation and review of statutory annual accounts, reconciliations, external returns and claims for a large portfolio of SME clients
• Build new relationships and maintain existing relationships with clients.
• Ensure financial records, systems and other internal controls, including standing orders, financial regulations and asset registers, are properly managed, maintained, controlled, reviewed and complied with.
• Managing a team of accountants and effectively supporting them with day to day challenges, performance and training.

Benefits

• An industry competitive salary package and a discretionary performance bonus
• A health care allowance and a pension scheme with an employer contribution
• Work remotely, hybridly or onsite from our offices in Manchester or Leeds, West Yorkshire (Hybrid or office based)
• Paid sick leave
• A close knit team of supportive colleagues and a culture that is fun, friendly and committed to your career development
• An environment that encourages innovation and the autonomy and freedom to apply your expertise

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