Head of Accounting UK

Overview

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 growing their business and serving 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 accounting, bookkeeping, tax and payroll thanks to our proprietary SleekBooks ledger, AI tools and exceptional customer service.

FinTech payments: Offering digital banking services to new businesses to overcome a key entrepreneurial challenge.

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 on 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 Singapore.

We are looking for a Head of Accounting UK who is excited about the mission and outcomes over the next 6-12 months.

Mission

Mission: The Head of Accounting leads the team, driving process transformation, compliance, and profitability. They ensure team competency and client satisfaction through timely, accurate, and high-quality deliverables.

Outcomes

Outcomes:

1. Provide structured training and leadership to the accounting team, ensuring they stay updated on accounting standards and regulatory requirements across corporate secretarial, tax, payroll, and other services.
2. Drive process improvements to enable Sleek to scale efficiently
3. Demonstrate expertise in accounting regulations and UK company setups, particularly for private limited companies.
4. Ensure timely filing of corporate returns and taxes per SLAs.
5. Support and improve gross profitability for Sleek UK
6. Maintain team efficiency through timely hiring and training, swift corrective actions for staff issues, and full compliance with workflows.

To be successful in this role, you should have substantial senior leadership experience within a UK accounting practice. You will be professionally qualified - ideally ACCA, ICAEW, or ICAS - and possess a strong understanding of UK accounting and tax regulations.

Behavioural fit is also important at Sleek. We look for candidates who demonstrate the following attributes:

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. Accountability is important.

Humility: There is much we don't know. Humility allows for open-mindedness to feedback and a willingness to learn from others. It paves the way for collaboration and a positive work environment. It is a key ingredient of self-awareness and emotional intelligence.

Structured Thinking: Our business is complex with many layers. Being able to show sound judgement is important to us, ensuring solutions are pragmatic and balance the needs of the organisation, team and customers.

Attention to detail: You'll be managing multiple, complex workstreams from numerous stakeholders. You will need to keep track of information and notice when data is missing or inconsistent.

Excellent listener and clear communicator: We have a variety of nationalities and English is not everyone's first language. You'll need to be present in calls and ensure you properly receive and thoughtfully send messages to others in the business.

Interview process

The successful candidate will participate in the interview stages below. The order may differ from what you read here. The process is expected to last no more than 3 weeks from start to finish. Interviews may be held over video call or in person depending on location and role.

Screening call
A 30 minute chat with our Talent Acquisition team to learn about you and your background.

Competency Round
A 45-60 minute call with a Senior Accounting Manager to cover high-level technical concepts and core skills.

Career Deep Dive
A 45-60 minute session with our Country Head - UK.

Behavioural panel interview
A 60 minute conversation with two of our business leaders to discuss recent work situations and collaboration.

Offer + references
We'll make a non-binding offer verbally or by email, followed by reference checks.

Background checks

Please be aware that Sleek is a regulated entity and performs background checks depending on the role. This may include education verification, criminal history, political exposure, bankruptcy or adverse credit history. We will obtain your consent before checks. Depending on your role, an adverse result may affect probation.

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What we offer

Benefits and culture highlights include:

• Humility and kindness: We hire for humility and nurture a diverse, inclusive environment.
• Flexibility: Work from home 2 days per week. You may start early or late to fit family needs, and you can work fully remote from anywhere in the world for 1 month each year.
• Financial benefits: Competitive salaries, generous paid time off, and holiday schedules. Some staff are eligible for our employee share ownership plan.
• Personal growth: Significant responsibility and autonomy, with training programmes. We are at the forefront of AI use and developing a regional AI centre of excellence.
• Company impact: Sleek is a certified B Corp with a commitment to a regenerative economy and environmental initiatives (e.g., trees planted, paper saved). We aim to be carbon neutral by 2030.

Sleek is committed to diversity and inclusion. This description reflects current requirements and may be updated as the role evolves.