Top 183 Chief Jobs in Costa Mesa, Ca

Financial Controller / Head of Finance - Real Estate
ACRE Homes —Costa Mesa, CA
- $90,000 - $135,000 a year
- Email
- Hybrid work
- Background check
- CPA
- 5 years
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
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Head of Operations
Paramount Financial Services —Newport Beach, CA
- $95,000 - $125,000 a year
- Full-time
- Office
- In-person
- Senior level
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
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Chief Financial Officer - Property Management - CORP
Aperto Property Management, Inc —Irvine, CA
- $185,000 - $215,000 a year
- Full-time
- 7 years
- CPA
- Office
- Disability insurance
- Health insurance
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Survey Party Chief
X Engineering & Consulting, Inc. —Santa Ana, CA
- $45 - $60 an hour
- Full-time
- AutoCAD
- Clean driving record
- Civil engineering
- Paid holidays
- Health insurance
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Chief Development Officer
Orangewood Foundation —Santa Ana, CA
- $180,000 - $220,000 a year
- Full-time
- Background check
- Current TB test
- Pass drug screening
- 403(b) matching
- Paid holidays
Restoration Crew Chief
Confidential —Tustin, CA
- $24 - $27 an hour
- Full-time
- Background check
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- Construction site
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
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Demo Crew Chief
Confidential —Huntington Beach, CA
- $24 - $28 an hour
- Full-time
- Clean driving record
- Construction site
- Mid-level
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
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Head of Contact Center, US
BSH Home Appliances Group —Irvine, CA
- $135,868 - $181,157 a year
- 8 hour shift
- Hybrid work
- 7 years
- Microsoft Excel
- Bachelor's degree
- Profit sharing
- Health savings account
Head of Customer Support
Anduril Industries —Costa Mesa, CA
- $253,000 - $336,000 a year
- Email
- Computer science
- Computer Science
- Engineering
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Head of Non-Production Operations, Facilities
True Anomaly —Long Beach, CA
- $145,000 - $210,000 a year
- 7 years
- Office
- Team management
- Health savings account
- Paid holidays
Head of Operations - Gross Labs
Shadow Light Studios —Newport Beach, CA
- $150,000 - $180,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Google Workspace
- Master's degree
- Senior level
- Paid holidays
- Health insurance
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Chief Program Officer
Families Forward —Irvine, CA
- $160,000 - $180,000 a year
- Full-time
- Office
- Master's degree
- Bachelor's degree
- 403(b) matching
- Paid holidays
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Chief Marketing Officer
HR MGMT 10 LLC —Costa Mesa, CA
- $200,000 - $250,000 a year
- Full-time
- Mentoring
- Senior level
- Leadership
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Fire Chief
Peckham & McKenney —Costa Mesa, CA
- $222,324 - $297,924 a year
- Administrative experience
- Supervising experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Health insurance
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Chief of Staff
TRL11, Inc. —Irvine, CA
- $80,000 - $150,000 a year
- Full-time
- Office
- 3 years
- Analysis skills
- AD&D insurance
- Health insurance
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Head of Customer Success
Phocas Software —Costa Mesa, CA
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Senior level
- AD&D insurance
- Disability insurance
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Chief Technology Officer
Codazen —Irvine, CA
- $200,000 - $250,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Travel
- In-person
- Senior level
- AD&D insurance
- Paid holidays
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HCA Service Chief II
County of Orange —Santa Ana, CA
- $108,409.60 - $134,700.80 a year
- Urgently hiring
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Writing skills
Head of Operational Excellence, Mission Readiness
Anduril Industries —Costa Mesa, CA
- $220,000 - $293,000 a year
- Email
- Research
- Travel
- Senior level
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Chief Administrative Officer
Providence —Mission Viejo, CA
- $102.10 - $186.52 an hour
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Hospital
- Master's degree
- Bachelor's degree
- Paid parental leave
- Paid holidays

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Financial Controller / Head of Finance - Real Estate

ACRE Homes
Costa Mesa, CA

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Job Details

Full-time
$90,000 - $135,000 a year
11 days ago

Benefits

Health insurance
Paid time off

Qualifications

Accounting experience within construction industry
Accounting systems
Google Sheets
Financial model construction
Underwriting
Automation
English
Bachelor's degree
Job order costing
QuickBooks Online
Forecasting
QuickBooks
Cash management
Financial projection model development
Construction accounting
AI-driven automation
Accounting experience within real estate
Financial process automation
Excel data analysis

Full Job Description

Financial Controller / Head of Finance

Acre Homes | Full-Time

About Acre Homes

Acre Homes is a residential real estate development and homebuilding company that acquires, builds, and sells homes across multiple concurrent projects. We run a lean team and move quickly — each project carries its own budget, financing, and timeline, and the financial complexity of the business has outgrown a bookkeeper-plus-CPA setup. We’re hiring our first in-house finance leader.

About the Role

This is a hands-on, own-it-all finance role. You’ll be the one person responsible for the financial side of the business — from keeping the books clean and closing the months, to telling the owner exactly where cash stands on every project and what the next six months look like. It’s a Controller’s day-to-day scope with CFO-level visibility: you’ll work directly with the founder and your analysis will drive real decisions about which projects we take on and how we finance them.

You should be equally comfortable categorizing transactions in QuickBooks on a Tuesday morning and walking the owner through a project-level cash flow forecast that afternoon.

What You’ll Own

Accounting & monthly close. Run all bookkeeping in QuickBooks Online: transaction categorization, reconciliations, AP/AR, and a reliable monthly close. Includes an initial cleanup of the existing books and chart of accounts.
Project (job) cost accounting. Track budget vs. actual for every active project — land, hard costs, soft costs, carry costs — so we know the true cost and projected margin of each home at any point in time.
Cash flow management & projections. Maintain a rolling company-wide and per-project cash flow forecast. Anticipate crunches before they happen and tell us when we can safely start the next project.
Debt & lender management. Manage relationships and paperwork with our project lenders: draw requests, interest tracking by property, payoff coordination at sale, and loan compliance. Help evaluate financing terms on new deals.
Deal analysis & underwriting support. Build pro formas for prospective acquisitions and post-mortems on completed projects — what did we actually make, and why did it differ from the underwriting?
Financial reporting. Deliver a simple monthly package: P&L, balance sheet, cash position, per-project status, and the handful of KPIs that matter (cost per square foot, margin per project, carry cost burn, days to sale).
Tax, insurance & compliance coordination. Be the point person for our outside CPA (tax prep and planning), insurance renewals, property tax, entity-level filings, and payroll administration.
Systems & process. Put lightweight processes in place — approvals, document organization, budget templates — that keep the business tight without slowing it down.

Your First 90 Days

Clean up the QuickBooks file: categorize outstanding transactions, restructure the chart of accounts around project-level (class/job) tracking, and reconcile all accounts.
Build the per-project cost and cash flow model covering every active property.
Establish the monthly close calendar and deliver your first monthly reporting package.
Map all outstanding loans — balances, rates, maturity dates, payoff triggers — into a single debt schedule.

What We’re Looking For

Required: 5+ years of accounting/finance experience with at least 2 years in construction, homebuilding, real estate development, or fix-and-flip — you understand job costing, draws, and carry costs.
Required: Deep hands-on QuickBooks Online experience — you’ve owned a QBO file end to end, not just reviewed reports from one.
Required: Strong Excel/Google Sheets modeling skills — comfortable building cash flow forecasts and project pro formas from scratch.
Required: Self-directed operator — you’ll be the entire finance department, so you need to set your own priorities and close your own loops.
Required: Heavy AI user — we run finance on AI. You’ll be expected to use Claude (connected to our QuickBooks) daily to automate the close, build forecasts and reports, draft lender communications, and analyze deals. You should already be using AI tools this way, or be eager and able to get there fast.
Nice to have: CPA, CCIFP, or public accounting background.
Nice to have: Experience working with private/hard-money lenders and construction draw processes.
Nice to have: Experience as the first finance hire at a small company.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary of $95,000–$135,000 depending on experience and local market, plus a performance bonus tied to project profitability. Benefits and final range to be discussed during the interview process.

Location/Hours

9-5PM at office in Costa Mesa with the potential for remote work after 90 days.

Application instructions

Please email your COVER LETTER and resume to Brooke at [email protected] (recruiter for this role). Please make the subject line "ACRE HOMES ACCOUNTANT - [YOUR NAME]". In your cover letter, please include details on why you feel your the best candidate for this role and what applicable experience you have. Thank you!

Pay: $90,000.00 - $135,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Health insurance
Paid time off

Education:

Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

real estate accounting and/or finance: 2 years (Required)

Language:

English (Required)

Ability to Commute:

Costa Mesa, CA 92626 (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Costa Mesa, CA 92626

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