Financial Controller

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

💵 $5k - $6k / month

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⛔️ Financial Controller

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

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🤝 B2B

Recruitment • B2B

InsideOut is a recruiting and placement service that sources, screens, and delivers pre-vetted virtual assistants (VAs) and specialists for small businesses and solopreneurs. They provide a done-for-you hiring process—booking a strategy call, sourcing candidates from strategic regions (Philippines, Latin America, South Africa, Egypt), delivering a curated shortlist within 5–7 business days, and supporting offer negotiations and onboarding. InsideOut emphasizes cost-effective global talent (hourly ranges listed by region), a six-month replacement guarantee, pay-only-when-you-hire pricing (no subscriptions), and ongoing post-hire support. Roles covered include general and executive assistants, sales, operations/HR, marketing and creative, and accounting/bookkeeping, targeting U. S. businesses that want to scale by outsourcing administrative and specialist tasks.

📋 Description

• Take end-to-end ownership of financial numbers across funds, holding companies, and management entities • Translate strategic assumptions into financial metrics for executive decision-making, risk management, and cash-flow optimization • Overhaul and manage linked property operating models, fund-level rollups, and annual budgets • Update operating models with monthly actuals and maintain linked, formula-driven calculations • Build annual budgets for every property and entity; track budget versus actuals and explain variances • Own portfolio cash-flow forecasts covering operating cash, capex/construction draws, debt service, intercompany funding, and distributions • Calculate quarterly investor distributions through fund waterfalls and execute payouts via InvestNext • Manage the bookkeeper and run reliable monthly closes for funds, the management company, and holding entities • Perform reconciliations, accruals, intercompany accounting, and clean consolidations • Review property managers’ monthly financials and challenge discrepancies • Own end-to-end accounts payable, including coding, approvals, payment runs, vendor follow-up, and fraud-prevention controls • Automate data pulls, reconciliations, variance analysis, and reporting using AI • Prepare lender and investor P&L and balance-sheet reporting packages • In the first 90 days, improve existing property and fund models, establish timely closes, create live cash forecasts and annual budgets, consolidate AP, document distribution calculations, and automate at least two recurring workflows

🎯 Requirements

• C1 English level required; speaking strictly in English during the whole shift • 5+ years of experience in real estate accounting/finance • Experience as a Controller or Senior Accountant at a real estate sponsor, syndicator, or private equity firm ideally • Strong multi-entity experience, including consolidations, intercompany balances, accrual accounting, and clean monthly close • Fund accounting experience, including investor distribution waterfalls, preferred returns, and profit splits • Advanced Excel or Google Sheets modeling capabilities • Strong AI proficiency, including hands-on use of Claude or ChatGPT to build or audit models, automate reporting, or accelerate closes • Experience managing a bookkeeper or small accounting team • CPA certification or progress toward it preferred • Hospitality accounting experience preferred; familiarity with USALI is a plus • Construction accounting expertise preferred, including draws, capex tracking, and construction loans • Experience creating lender packages and managing bank refinances preferred • Proficiency with modern AI automation tools, especially Claude • Familiarity with real estate and corporate accounting platforms, payroll systems, expense management, and investor portals including InvestNext, QuickBooks, and Ramp • Must submit an English resume and English audio recording • Must submit a publicly accessible 30–90 second Loom introduction video recorded in English • Must submit an internet speed test screenshot

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work • AI-first, tech-forward workflows • Opportunity to work with commercial real estate investment and outdoor wellness resort assets • Role autonomy and owner mentality • Ongoing process improvement and automation opportunities

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