Director of Finance

Aro Homes•Mountain View, CA

34d•$180,000 - $215,000

About The Position

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.

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

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.