Senior Accountant - UK Clients - Remote

Sleek; Metro Manila; Remote; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Sleek in the Philippines hires an accounting professional to prepare UK year end accounts, CT600s, and VAT returns for small business clients. You will work in a pod led by a UK-based Senior Accounts Manager and support around 300 UK clients, growing to 500 by 2027.

You will review the work of accountants and bookkeepers, chase clients for records, and communicate clearly with UK clients by email. You will use AI tools built into our workflows and contribute to process and data accuracy.

Qualifications

• At least part-qualified: CA or CA Intermediate (India), CPA (Philippines), or ACCA (member, or all Applied Skills papers passed).
• At least 4 years in accounting, including 2 UK year ends, CT600s and VAT returns for small businesses, in a UK practice or outsourcing firm.
• At least 1 year reviewing other accountants' or bookkeepers' work.
• Written English good enough to email UK clients directly.
• Based in India or the Philippines with the right to work there.

Responsibilities

• Prepare year end accounts (FRS 102/105), CT600s and VAT returns under Making Tax Digital.
• Review the work of accountants and bookkeepers in your pod and explain corrections.
• Chase clients early for missing records and flag deadlines to the manager.
• Email UK clients directly to request information or clarify needs.
• Keep client records and workflow data accurate for visibility.
• Use AI tools and help shape them within workflows.

Skills

Written English

Communication

Ownership

Coaching

Data accuracy

Education

CA/CA Intermediate (India)

CPA (Philippines)

ACCA (Applied Skills)

Tools

Xero

QuickBooks

Job description

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 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.

Mission of the role

Prepare and review UK year end accounts, corporation tax returns and VAT returns 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. You review the accountants' and bookkeeper's work so it reaches the manager right the first time, and you are the person they come to with questions.

What you'll do

• Prepare year end accounts (FRS 102 and 105), corporation tax computations and CT600s, and VAT returns under Making Tax Digital.
• Review the work of the accountants and bookkeeper in your pod, explain your corrections, and help them get it right the first time.
• Chase clients early for missing records, and tell your manager in good time when a deadline is at risk.
• Email UK clients directly to ask for information or explain what you need.
• Keep client records and workflow data accurate, so anyone can see where each client stands.
• Use the AI tools we are building into our products and workflows, and help shape them.

Key outcomes in the first 6-12 months

• No statutory deadline missed because of us on the clients you work on.
• Work you send to the Senior Accounts Manager needs fewer review rounds, measured from when you start.
• Work from the accountants and bookkeeper you review needs fewer review rounds over time.
• Workflow data for your clients is accurate and up to date.

Must-have experience

• At least part-qualified: CA or CA Intermediate (India), CPA (Philippines), or ACCA (member, or all Applied Skills papers passed).
• At least 4 years in accounting, including at least 2 preparing UK year end accounts, CT600s and VAT returns for small businesses, in a UK practice or an outsourcing firm.
• At least 1 year reviewing other accountants' or bookkeepers' work.
• 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.

Must-have attributes

• Ownership: the clients you work on are yours, and you fix problems rather than pass them on.
• Knowledgeable: you give the accountants and bookkeeper a definite answer.
• Coaching: when you correct someone's work, you explain why, so the mistake doesn't come back.
• Great communicator: clear in writing, with UK clients and with a manager in another country.
• Process, data and compliance: you follow the process, keep records clean and never cut corners.
• One team: you help the rest of the pod succeed, not just your own clients.
• Open to AI: the pod can grow to 500 clients only because our tools take on more of the routine work.

The interview process

• TA Screening Call: A 30 minute call with our Talent Acquisition team.
• Live Technical Assessment: A ~60-90 minute live skills test to assess your hands-on bookkeeping capability.
• Technical Interview: A 45 - 60 minute interview with the Accounting manager who will assess your technical skills.
• Soft Skills Interview: A ~15-30 minute interview with the hiring team to evaluate real-world work scenarios against our core behavioural values.
• Reference Verification: Prior to final offer confirmation, we will conduct one professional reference check with your recent direct manager or su