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: 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.
Position Duties
- You will lead and manage a high volume of portfolio of accounting clients and be the key point of contact for all your clients.
- You will hence be accountable for the quality of service deliveries, timeliness, accurate billings, managing client relationships, maintaining good rapport with clients, and having the ability to achieve client satisfaction and retention.
- You must be able to plan your work effectively and efficiently, and provide effective leadership, supervision and guidance to staff to ensure deliverables are in accordance with the scope of services and timelines. This includes but not limited to corporate secretarial, accounting, tax, payroll, GST, immigration, mailroom, and nominee director services.
- From the start of your engagement, you must be able to demonstrate expertise in primary accounting frameworks and in relation to financial reporting matters as regulated by ACRA. You must also have sufficient knowledge on the regulatory requirements of various company set-ups in Singapore, mainly that of private limited companies.
- You are required to gain a comprehensive understanding of client operations, processes, and business objectives and utilise that knowledge on engagement.
- For assigned clients, you must have the ability to review and/or prepare management accounts and schedules, corporate tax computation, payroll reports, GST reports and other statutory filings, and ensure its accuracy and completeness before delivering to clients.
- The knowledge that you have will enable you to provide basic consultancy advice to clients on various accounting, tax, payroll and corporate secretarial matters.
- One of your key responsibilities is to prepare Unaudited/Group Unaudited Financial Statements and XBRL for clients with zero error.
- You must adhere to the highest degree of professional standards and strict client confidentiality.
Requirements
- Recognised degree/diploma in Accountancy
- Preferably professionally certified with ACCA, CPA, or CA qualification
- Preferably 2-3 years of relevant working experience for professionally certified candidates, 5-7 years of relevant working experience for candidates who are not / yet to be certified.
- Good understanding of SFRS and Singapore regulatory compliance
- Hands-on experience with Google workspace and Microsoft applications
- Experience with cloud accounting software, Xero will be a definite plus, preferably at least a year of experience in Xero
- Resourceful and experience with various productivity software applicable to facilitate daily works
- Self-motivated, positive attitude, proactive and detail-oriented
- Love meeting people and have great interpersonal and communication skills
- Able to adapt to VUCA way of thinking and contribute to process improvement efforts
- Able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Immediate availability is preferred
Benefits
More about Sleek!
At Sleek, we work in a fast-paced start-up environment. We have a strong culture built around our five core values: Simplicity, Loyalty, Excellence, Entrepreneurship, Kindness. As a deliberately multicultural team, our team comprises more than 18 nationalities and spoken languages.
We consider the company’s success to be a result of committed individual and team efforts, and are looking to onboard talented and creative people who want to make a difference. Corporate social responsibility is a passion, and as an equal opportunity employer we aim at making the world a better place. With a strong commitment to also make Sleek a great place to work, we offer a flexible working environment where we empower every team member to be the best they can be – regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age or identity.
If you think you would be a good fit for our mission, we look forward to hearing from you!
