VP of Finance/Accounting

2B Living, Inc.•San Carlos, CA

About The Position

2B Living manages a fast-growing portfolio of 5,000+ units across 400+ properties in the Bay Area, expanding organically and through acquisitions. We’re building the infrastructure of a scaled, institutional-grade property management platform and redefining what exceptional property management looks like at scale. You’ll lead and grow the team of controllers and property accountants who run our Cash Portfolio, Enhanced/Investment Portfolio, and Accounting Operations teams — and hold secondary oversight of corporate accounting. Your mandate is to build the structure, controls, and financial infrastructure that lets us scale to 10,000+ units while delivering institutional-quality reporting to our clients. At 2B Living, accounting is not a back-office function — it’s a cornerstone of our customer-facing product. You’ll own financial operations as a product: the reporting, controls, and insights that our property owners rely on to make decisions. This is a builder’s role, not a maintenance role. This is a build role with a clear path. For the right leader, the expectation is growth into a full CFO mandate as the platform scales.

Requirements

You are someone who solves hard problems — leaning into complexity with curiosity, accountability, and a bias toward action.
You grow courageously, embracing change, challenging the status quo, and continuously evolving yourself and your team.
You believe in rowing together — building strong partnerships, developing people, and creating alignment across teams to deliver exceptional outcomes for clients, residents, and one another.
You’re a hands-on leader who has built and led teams — not simply managed tasks.
You thrive in high-volume, detail-heavy environments and know how to bring order to complexity without slowing things down.
You communicate clearly up and down the org, hold your team to high standards with genuine care for their development, and you get excited about tightening a control environment or finding a smarter way to staff a function.
You may be coming from a real estate fund, asset management firm, institutional investor, or an operating company with complex multi-entity financials — direct property management experience is a nice-to-have, not a requirement.
What matters is that you understand how financial decisions translate into asset performance and client outcomes.
You’ll rely on and develop a strong existing accounting team while bringing strategic structure and leadership to productize this function for our next phase of growth.
High proficiency with accounting software; AppFolio experience a plus (willingness to become expert required)
Strong project management skills: you can run multiple parallel workstreams, hit deadlines, and keep stakeholders aligned.

Nice To Haves

Direct property management experience is a nice-to-have, not a requirement.
Ideally, you have built and managed outsourced or offshore accounting functions (Philippines, India, or similar markets) — this is a major differentiator.
AppFolio experience a plus
CPA or equivalent credential preferred

Responsibilities

Team Leadership: Proven track record building, leading, and developing finance or accounting teams. Experience managing controllers, senior accounting managers, or equivalent finance leads as direct reports. Set performance expectations, KPIs, and a culture of accountability and continuous improvement across the property accounting group. High standards paired with genuine investment in team development.
Scaling & Strategic Finance: Think ahead on headcount planning and team structure as the portfolio grows. Partner with COO/CFO on reporting, forecasting, and portfolio-level financial insights. Translate complex financial topics clearly for clients and non-finance stakeholders. Connect operational performance with financial results in collaboration with property management leadership.
Risk & Internal Controls: Design and enforce internal controls across complex, high-volume portfolios. Manage risk across cash, A/R, A/P, trust accounting, and owner distributions — serve as the primary escalation point for discrepancies and control gaps. Ensure compliance with accounting standards, state regulations, and property management-specific reporting requirements.
Accounting Operations: Own month-end and year-end close across a multi-portfolio, high-volume environment. Standardize workflows, drive consistency, and ensure everything is accurate, timely, and audit-ready. Leverage technology and automation to improve processes wherever possible.
Outsourcing & Offshoring: Evaluate capacity vs. growth and restructure teams cost-effectively without sacrificing quality. Ideally, you have built and managed outsourced or offshore accounting functions (Philippines, India, or similar markets) — this is a major differentiator.