Aro Homes Director of Finance at Lerner Solutions in Mountain View, California

Job description

• The Director of Finance will lead financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance management for Aro Homes, a residential infill developer operating across the full lifecycle from acquisitions and underwriting through construction, completion, and home sale. You will build and maintain the company’s financial operating model, ensuring accurate project-level and portfolio-level visibility into capital needs, margins, cash flow, construction progress, and sales performance.
• You will partner closely with acquisitions, development, construction, accounting, capital markets, and executive leadership to translate operational activity into clear financial insight. A significant part of the role is developing the systems, dashboards, and reporting infrastructure that keep financial and operational data accurate, consistent, timely, and actionable as the company scales.
• You can translate operational activity into clear, actionable financial insight for both finance and non-finance audiences.
• You move comfortably between detailed project-level analysis and portfolio-level strategy.
• You care about data integrity and enjoy building systems and processes that scale.
• You work well across functions, partnering with operators, accounting, capital markets, and executive leadership to move decisions forward.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the company’s financial operating model, providing project-level and portfolio-level visibility into capital needs, margins, cash flow, construction progress, and sales performance.
• Own budgeting, rolling forecasts, cash flow planning, and variance analysis across individual projects and the broader portfolio.
• Track project profitability and prepare lender and investor reporting.
• Develop scenario models to support decisions on growth, financing, and liquidity.
• Design and improve internal systems, dashboards, and reporting infrastructure, including front-end interfaces for executives and operators.
• Improve data workflows and maintain data integrity across source systems so financial and operational data stays accurate, consistent, and timely.
• Establish scalable processes for tracking land acquisitions, permits, construction costs, schedules, committed capital, inventory, sales pipeline, gross margins, and corporate overhead.
• Oversee FP&A policies, reporting cadence, KPI definitions, model governance, and cross-functional accountability.
• Partner across acquisitions, development, construction, accounting, capital markets, and executive leadership, translating operational activity into clear financial insight.

Requirements

• Strong real estate development finance experience, ideally spanning the full project lifecycle from acquisition through home sale.
• Advanced financial modeling skills, including operating models, forecasting, and scenario analysis.
• Comfort with systems and BI tools, with experience building dashboards and reporting infrastructure.
• Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• 10+ years in real estate / development finance and a degree in finance, accounting, or a related field; CPA or CFA a plus

Skills

Required

• Advanced financial modeling skills
• Comfort with systems and BI tools

Preferred

• CPA or CFA

Benefits

• Opportunity to join an outstanding start-up team and grow a purpose –driven company from the ground up
• Competitive salary package
• Medical/dental/vision benefits
• Equity in the company
• $180,000.00 - $215,000.00