Regional Financial Controller (Hebrew-Speaking)
CareerFinders Recruitment Services
Location
Remote
Fully Remote
Type
full-time
Experience
Senior (5+ yrs)
Salary (Gross)
Salary upon interview
Apply within
31 days
Category
Finance, Risk & Treasury
About the Role
CareerFinders is seeking a Regional Financial Controller (Hebrew-Speaking) for an international Real Estate Fund with expanding operations in Cyprus. Reporting to the Group Head of Finance, the successful candidate will oversee financial accounting, reporting, financial controls, and performance monitoring for operations in Israel and Dubai. This role ensures accurate and timely regional reporting, effective cash flow and working capital management, compliance with Group policies and local statutory requirements, and financial oversight of asset performance and CAPEX expenditure. Fluency in both verbal and written Hebrew is essential, along with proven experience in relevant financial duties. The position offers fully remote working options within Cyprus.
Responsibilities
- Oversee regional accounting operations, monthly closings, balance sheet reconciliations, and financial reporting.
- Monitor asset-level financial performance against approved budgets, business plans, and forecasts.
- Coordinate regional budgets and forecasts, challenge underlying assumptions, and provide accurate financial information.
- Maintain rolling 13-week cash flow forecasts, monitor liquidity, working capital, receivables, and rent collections.
- Oversee regional CAPEX financial reporting, including budget utilisation, commitments, cost variations, and forecast expenditure.
- Implement and monitor Group accounting policies, financial controls, and approval procedures.
- Coordinate local statutory reporting, tax compliance, and external audits.
- Oversee internal accounting activities and external finance service providers.
- Ensure accurate fixed asset accounting and registers, and provide relevant financial information.
- Work closely with Country Managers, property managers and operational teams, providing financial insight.
- Liaise with Group Finance, FP&A, Treasury, Asset Management and Development teams.
- Identify and implement opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting quality, internal controls, and automation.
Requirements
- Fluency in Hebrew (written and spoken) is essential.
- University degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Experience with monthly closing, trial balances, reconciliations, statutory and Group financial statements.
- Knowledge of P&L analysis, budget preparation, variance analysis, and financial performance monitoring.
- Experience with Accounting policies, internal controls, statutory requirements, and local regulatory compliance.
- Experience with the coordination and supervision of internal accounting teams and external accounting providers.
- Able to develop accounting procedures, standardization, and the implementation of efficiency initiatives.
- Ability to collaborate well with executive management, operational teams, asset management, and external auditors.
- Strong attention to detail, problem-solving, planning, and ability to manage multiple Group entities.
- Proficiency in accounting systems, ERP platforms, financial reporting tools, and Microsoft Excel.
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