Senior Accountant

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.
• 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 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 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.

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

Mission: As an Accountant in our Australia team, your mission is to deliver accurate BAS lodgements, maintain clean financial records, and provide clients with clear, actionable financial insights. We’re looking for an excellent communicator who thrives on being the go-to person for clients’ accounting needs, offering support, clarity, and confidence every step of the way.

Outcomes:

• Prepare and lodge accurate Business Activity Statements (BAS) and Instalment Activity Statements (IAS), ensuring GST and payroll liabilities are reconciled and compliant with ATO regulations.
• Maintain accurate financial records and full sets of accounts across a portfolio of clients, using cloud systems like Xero and Dext, including fixed asset management, journals, and reporting.
• Oversee accounts payable and receivable processes, ensuring timely invoicing, collections, payments, and reconciliation of supplier/client accounts.
• Collaborate with bookkeeping and tax teams to ensure accuracy of transaction recording, ledger integrity, and smooth financial operations.
• Assist in preparing monthly management accounts and financial reports, offering clients clear insights to support decision-making.
• Provide payroll support and maintain strong communication with clients, acting as their go-to advisor for day-to-day accounting needs and ensuring adherence to Australian regulatory standards.
• Manage the client relationship from end to end, providing answers and guidance to Australian SME owners. You will be communicating directly with the clients.

To do this, you will have a minimum of 3 years experience as an Accountant within Australian accounting, with a solid experience of client relationship management and outstanding communication (both verbal & written). Experience preparing corporate tax returns will be a major plus.

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.
• Humility: There is so much we don’t know. Humility allows for open-mindedness to feedback and a willingness to learn from others.
• Structured Thinking: Our business is complex with many layers. Regardless of whether you’re more analytical or creative in nature, being able to show sound judgement is important to us.
• Data driven: We are a data rich business with ~15,000 small customers. Each decision we make can impact many more people than we realise.
• Can have tough conversations in a positive way: It’s not a matter of if, but when difficult interpersonal situations arise.
• Tech + services savvy: We are a tech-enabled services business, automating traditional, manual processes and delighting customers while doing so.
• Problem Solving: You’ll need to be able to think on your feet as this role requires you to identify, diagnose, and resolve production issues quickly.
• Attention to detail: You’ll be managing multiple, complex workstreams from numerous stakeholders.
• Excellent listener and clear communicator: For you to excel, you’ll need to be present in your calls and make sure you properly receive and thoughtfully send messages to others in the business.
• Analytical Mindset: You have a keen eye for detail and a methodical approach to dissecting problems.
• Collaboration-Driven: You thrive in a cross-functional team environment, working closely with developers, product managers, and operations teams.
• AI-ready and curious: Sleekbooks already utilises AI capabilities, but there are many more applications to be found and incorporated.

The interview process: The successful candidate will participate in the below interview stages. We anticipate the process to last no more than 3 weeks from start to finish.

• Case study: A ~60 minute chat with the Hiring Manager, where they will give you some real-life challenges that this role faces, and will ask for your approach to solving them.
• Career deep dive: A ~60 minute chat with the Hiring Manager. They’ll discuss your last 1-2 roles to understand your experience in more detail.
• Behavioural fit assessment: A ~60 minute chat with a member of the HR or leadership team, where they will dive into some of your recent work situations to understand how you think and work.
• Offer + reference interviews: We’ll make a non-binding offer verbally or over email, followed by a couple of short phone or video calls with references that you provide to us.

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.

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.
• 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.
• Financial benefits: We pay competitive market salaries and provide staff with generous paid time off and holiday schedules.
• Personal growth: You’ll get a lot of responsibility and autonomy at Sleek.
• 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.