Accounting Manager – Public Practice

🕒 June 1

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Sleek

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

🏢 Enterprise

💸 Finance

☁️ SaaS

Enterprise • Finance • SaaS

Sleek is a digital platform that provides comprehensive business services aimed at small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The company specializes in company incorporation, accounting, payroll, corporate secretary services, and business account setup. Sleek enables businesses to streamline their administrative tasks and compliance processes through a user-friendly, digital platform. Operating globally, Sleek is committed to offering fast and efficient services with transparent pricing, making the process of setting up and managing a business hassle-free and entirely digital.

📋 Description

• Oversee a portfolio of SME clients, ensuring the timely and high-quality delivery of accounting and tax services • Lead a team of junior and senior accountants to achieve a high client satisfaction • Provide accounting and tax services to a portfolio of Australian startup and SME clients • Liaising with the ATO on behalf of clients • BAS preparation and submission • Tax return preparation and submission • Provide supervision and control for remote bookkeeping clients • Advising and engaging with clients on various accounting & taxation matters • Hire, train, nurture and grow a team of like minded accountants

🎯 Requirements

• We are looking for an Accounting Manager that is excited about the below Mission and Outcomes. • **Mission:** • Oversee a portfolio of SME clients, ensuring the timely and high-quality delivery of accounting and tax services. Lead a team of junior and senior accountants to achieve a high client satisfaction. • ****Outcomes:** • - Provide accounting and tax services to a portfolio of Australian startup and SME clients • - Liaising with the ATO on behalf of clients • - BAS preparation and submission • - Tax return preparation and submission • - Provide supervision and control for remote bookkeeping clients • - Advising and engaging with clients on various accounting & taxation matters • - Hire, train, nurture and grow a team of like minded accountants • To do this, you will have a minimum of 5 years experience managing a team of accountants servicing Australian clients. • We are looking for someone is experienced within the following: • - Team management - hiring, training, nurturing a team of ambitious accountants • - Managing a portfolio of SME clients with scope ranging from bookkeeping to taxation services • - Excellent command of client communication and delivery organisation • 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. Accountability is really important to us. • **Humility**: There is so 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 creates a positive work environment. It is a key ingredient of self awareness and emotional intelligence. • **Structured Thinking**: Our business is complex with many layers (many services, many countries, many cultures). Regardless of whether you’re more analytical or creative in nature, being able to show sound judgement is important to us. It ensures solutions are pragmatic and balance the needs of the organisation, team and customers. • **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 - so it’s critical that we use sound data to support our strategies and review the success of our initiatives. • **Tech + services savvy:** We are a tech-enabled services business, automating traditional, manual processes and delighting customers while doing so. You will thrive as someone who understands and is excited by the challenges and opportunities of utilising software to scale a business. • **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, reducing downtime. You will leverage your strong infrastructure and development skills in post-incident reviews to find the underlying cause of failures and prevent future incidents. • **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. • Whether the interviews are held over video call or in person will depend on your location and the role. • **Screening Interview** • A ~30 minute chat with a Talent Acquisition Lead to discuss the role and your experience. • **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. • This may include using external vendors to verify the below: • - Your education • - Any criminal history • - Any political exposure • - Any bankruptcy or adverse credit history • We will ask for your consent before conducting these checks. Depending on your role at Sleek, an adverse result on one of these checks may prohibit you from passing probation. • By submitting a job application, you confirm that you have read and agree to our Data Privacy Statement for Candidates, found at sleek.com.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 are committed to creating and nurturing a diverse and inclusive environment. • **Flexibility**: You’ll be able to work from home 5 days per week. 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 get your work done and proactively communicate. You can also work fully remote from anywhere in the world for 1 month each year • **Financial benefits**: We pay competitive market salaries and provide staff with generous paid time off and holiday schedules. Certain staff at Sleek are also eligible for our employee share ownership plan and can share in the upside of our stellar growth trajectory as we work toward listing on a prominent stock exchange in the Asia Pacific region. • **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.