Accountant

Summary

Join Sleek as an Accountant and manage client offboarding with accuracy, efficiency, and compliance. Oversee financial reconciliations and documentation, ensuring transparency and reducing risk. Record day-to-day financial transactions, verify their accuracy, and perform bank reconciliations. Maintain full sets of books for a portfolio of clients, preparing payments, reconciliations, and financial reports in Xero. Prepare unaudited financial statements and support monthly MPF submission and payroll. Adhere to Hong Kong financial regulations and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders. This role requires a minimum of 2 years of experience as an Accountant and is located in India. Sleek values ownership, humility, structured thinking, data-driven decision-making, and the ability to have tough conversations constructively.

Requirements

• To do this, you will have a minimum of 2 years experience as Accountant and you must be located in India
• 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
• Can have tough conversations in a positive way: It’s not a matter of if, but when difficult interpersonal situations arise.  Disagreement, conflict and disappointment are a given in a fast moving business where people care about their work.  People that proactively have tough conversations with kindness build empathy, trust and great working relationships

Responsibilities

• Record day-to-day financial transactions and complete posting processes, verify if transactions are recorded correctly in the ledger, perform partial check of posting processes, and perform bank reconciliation
• Enter data, maintain records, launch reports, process accounts receivable and payable, and assist to prepare the management accounts
• Maintaining full sets of books for a portfolio of clients including preparing payments, bank reconciliations, fixed assets, raising journals and preparing financial reports in Xero accounting system
• Preparing Unaudited Financial Statements, monthly MPF submission and payroll support for clients
• Understand and adhere to Hong Kong financial regulations and legislation
• Work with internal stakeholders and third-party consultants on the specifications
• Other ad-hoc accounting related duties

Benefits

• You’ll be able to work remotely
• 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
• 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
• 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