Role Description A dynamic accounting and consulting firm is seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Accountant Manager to join their growing remote team. The firm provides outsourced bookkeeping, accounting, payroll, taxation, and advisory services to a diverse portfolio of small to medium-sized businesses across various industries. This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled accounting professional who thrives in a client-focused consulting environment and enjoys managing multiple client portfolios. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing accounting functions, payroll administration, tax compliance, financial reporting, and advisory support while building strong and lasting client relationships. Responsibilities - Accounting & Financial Management: - Manage the full accounting function for multiple outsourced clients. - Prepare and process monthly journals, accruals, and reconciliations. - Prepare monthly management accounts and financial reports. - Maintain accurate general ledger and trial balance records. - Perform bank, creditor, debtor, and balance sheet reconciliations. - Monitor client cash flow and assist with financial planning support. - Ensure accounting records comply with applicable accounting standards and company policies. - Prepare annual financial statements and assist with year-end audits where applicable. - Payroll Administration: - Process monthly and weekly payrolls for multiple clients. - Ensure payroll accuracy, including earnings, deductions, leave, and overtime calculations. - Manage payroll-related statutory submissions and reconciliations. - Ensure compliance with labour legislation and payroll regulations. - Assist clients with payroll queries and reporting requirements. - Taxation & Compliance: - Prepare and submit VAT, PAYE, UIF, SDL, and provisional tax returns. - Assist with individual, trust, and corporate income tax calculations and submissions. - Liaise with SARS regarding client queries, audits, objections, and compliance matters. - Monitor tax deadlines and ensure timely submissions for all clients. - Ensure ongoing compliance with all statutory and regulatory requirements. - Tax Advisory Services: - Provide basic to intermediate tax advisory support to clients. - Advise clients on tax-efficient business structures and financial practices. - Identify tax risks, savings opportunities, and compliance gaps. - Assist clients with tax planning and budgeting considerations. - Keep clients informed of relevant legislative and tax regulation changes. - Support senior management with specialised tax advisory projects when required. - Client Relationship Management: - Build and maintain strong professional relationships with clients. - Act as a trusted advisor and primary accounting contact for allocated clients. - Provide clients with accurate, timely, and practical financial guidance. - Assist clients in improving financial processes and internal controls. - Attend client meetings where required. - Administrative & Consulting Support: - Maintain accurate electronic and physical client records. - Assist with the implementation and optimisation of accounting systems and processes. - Support internal process improvement initiatives. - Assist with onboarding new clients and managing accounting transitions. Qualifications - Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. - Completed SAIPA, SAICA, or similar articles. - Professional designation will be advantageous. - Minimum of 3–5 years accounting experience. - Previous experience within an accounting practice or outsourced accounting environment will be highly advantageous. - Experience managing multiple client portfolios simultaneously. - Payroll processing experience advantageous. - Strong taxation and SARS compliance experience required. Requirements - Experience working with SME clients across multiple industries. - Exposure to advisory and consulting environments. - Experience with cloud-based accounting systems. - Knowledge of business process improvement and financial consulting. Skills - Proficient in accounting software such as Xero & Sage. - Draftworx (advantageous). - Strong Microsoft Excel skills. - Good understanding of South African tax legislation and payroll compliance. Key Competencies - Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. - Excellent attention to detail and accuracy. - Strong organisational and time management skills. - Ability to manage multiple deadlines across various client portfolios. - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. - Client-service driven with a professional and proactive approach. - Ability to work independently and within a collaborative team environment. - High level of integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.

Support financial processes by generating accurate reports, maintaining financial statements, supervising billing procedures, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements while managing fixed assets and collaborating on budget development.

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, AI tools and exceptional customer service - **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 Singapore/ Asia Pacific

• Handle much of the day-to-day operations for clients including transaction entry, invoicing, bill payments, payroll preparation, journal entries, reconciliations. • Daily tasks will be organized in Karbon, the practice management system. • Interact with clients occasionally while answering specific questions or seeking information. • Stop to ask questions of the team when unsure what needs to be done.