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Senior Bookkeeping Manager

Role overview

Qualifications

  • A Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a senior bookkeeping role managing a portfolio of SME clients (companies, trusts, partnerships, sole traders).
  • At least 2 years’ experience managing a team of bookkeepers.
  • Proficiency with Xero Practice Manager, Dext, A2X, and other accounting operations tools; must hold valid Australian work rights and be based in Australia.

Responsibilities

  • Be the backbone of Sleek’s Australian bookkeeping services – help scale internal processes and set the standard for excellence.
  • Manage your own portfolio of startup and SME clients – from advisory to compliance, you’re their go-to expert.
  • Own the end-to-end monthly or quarterly filings prep and lodgement process – accuracy is your middle name.
  • Lead, mentor and grow a team of bookkeepers and accountants – building a dream team.

Key facts

Other skills

  • People Management
  • Distributed Team Management
  • Ability To Meet Deadlines
  • Quality Control
  • Humility
  • Professionalism
  • Friendliness
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Time Management
  • Organizational Skills
  • Mentorship
  • Social Skills

About the company

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Sleek

Accounting

✅ Built by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs, Sleek’s mission is to make the lives of our fellow entrepreneurs easier. 🚀 It is the easiest way to get started and manage a business day to day. Just one platform to digitally manage company incorporation, compliance, bookkeeping & accounting, payroll, reporting, taxes and SO much more. Sleek's human-first, tech-enabled approach helps entrepreneurs automate repetitive tasks, while our supportive experts offer the best, personalised advice to our customers. 🌏 Present across Singapore, UK, Australia and Hong Kong, Sleek has served over 450,000 clients across 110 countries, and processed millions of bookkeeping transactions digitally. 📍 Sleek is registered with the company registry and tax authorities of Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and the UK. We are also regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore under the Payment Services Act, and issued a Major Payment Institution (MPI) licence No. PS20200521.

Company details

Company typeScaleup
IndustryAccounting
Company size201 - 500

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Job description

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:

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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 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.

WHAT THE ROLE INVOLVES

  • Be the backbone of Sleek’s Australian bookkeeping services – help us scale our internal processes and set the standard for excellence.
  • Manage your own portfolio of startup and SME clients – from advisory to compliance, you’re their go-to expert.
  • Represent clients confidently with the ATO – you're their compliance right hand.
  • Own the end-to-end monthly or quarterly filings prep & lodgement process – accuracy is your middle name.
  • Provide guidance and quality control for our remote bookkeeping team – because great numbers start with clean books.
  • Act as a trusted advisor on all things bookkeeping & accounting – from planning to problem-solving.
  • Lead, mentor and grow a team of like-minded, ambitious bookkeepers and accountants – we’re building a dream team, and you’re at the helm.

Requirements

We're seeking a detail-oriented and experienced bookkeeping leader ready to make a strong impact. To be successful in this role, you will need:

  • A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
  • A passion for the Australian SME space and the accounting industry.
  • A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a senior bookkeeping role, managing a portfolio of SME clients (Companies, trusts, partnerships, sole traders...).
  • At least 2 years’ experience managing a team of bookkeepers.
  • You believe AI is an enabler for greater efficiency and you're building your own skills and workflows.
  • Strong client service and communication skills — you’re confident in explaining complex matters in a simple way.
  • A high level of professionalism — you represent Sleek with integrity and care.
  • Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills — you can manage multiple tasks without losing focus.
  • Proficiency with Xero Practice Manager, Dext, A2X, and other accounting operations tools.
  • A proven ability to meet deadlines and deliver results.

Important: You must hold valid Australian work rights. You must be based in Australia.

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 2 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. Additionally, you’ll be able to access our $1,200 pa flexi benefits scheme for home office equipment or health and fitness expenditure. 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 aim to be Carbon Neutral by 2030.

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