Top 411 Controller Jobs in Downey 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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Controller - Commercial Real Estate
Reliable Properties —Los Angeles, CA
- $100,000 - $150,000 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Outlook
- 5 years
- Writing skills
- Health insurance
- 401(k)
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6d
Controller
Drew Child Development Corporation —Gardena, CA
- $100,705 - $127,392 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Outlook
- CPA
- 403(b) matching
- AD&D insurance
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Controller
General Contractor —Orange, CA
- $90,000 - $100,000 a year
- Full-time
- 7 years
- Microsoft Excel
- English
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
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Accounting and Payroll Manager
CarParts.com —Long Beach, CA
- $130,000 - $165,000 a year
- Full-time
- CPA
- 5 years
- Research
- Opportunities for advancement
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6d
Controller (Director of Business/Accounting/Fiscal Services)
Anaheim Union High School District —Anaheim, CA
- $182,733 - $203,932 a year
- Full-time
- Senior level
- Health insurance
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Controller - San Diego or Los Angeles (Onsite)
Collision Auto Parts —Santa Fe Springs, CA
- $140,000 - $160,000 a year
- Full-time
- CPA
- ERP systems
- Office
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Assistant Controller
Soffa Electric Inc —Commerce, CA
- $95,000 - $105,000 a year
- Research
- Mid-level
- Finance
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8d
Accounting Manager
Amada America, Inc. —Buena Park, CA
- $135,000 a year
- Monday to Friday
- CPA
- Writing skills
- Office
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Construction Controller
Leoforce —Gardena, CA
- $120,000 - $160,000 a year
- CPA
- 5 years
- Office
- Paid time off
- 401(k) matching
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5d
Controller - WSS
Foot Locker —Gardena, CA
- $170,000 - $220,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- CPA
- 5 years
- ERP systems
- Paid parental leave
- Health savings account
Assistant Controller
UCLA Health —Los Angeles, CA
- $167,100 - $403,900 a year
- CPA
- 5 years
- ERP systems
Precious Metals Controller
Heraeus Holding GmbH —Santa Fe Springs, CA
- $114,818 - $131,568 a year
- Online Application
- Mid-level
- 3 years
- Finance
Controller
Wieland —South Gate, CA
- $114,600 - $130,000 a year
- Full-time
- 7 years
- CPA
- ERP systems
- Health savings account
- Paid holidays
Controller
Verus Aerospace —Anaheim, CA
- $160,000 - $180,000 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Excel
- Oracle
- CPA
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Regional Controller
Tandem Foods —Cypress, CA
- $135,000 - $180,000 a year
- Remote
- CPA
- Finance
- Master's degree
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Controller
Layup Parts —Huntington Beach, CA
- $150,000 - $210,000 a year
- Full-time
- Background check
- Microsoft Excel
- CPA
- Disability insurance
- Health insurance
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8d
Controller
Henpen Corporation —Los Alamitos, CA
- $135,000 - $160,000 a year
- Finance
- 8 years
- Bachelor's degree
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Assistant Controller
Renovo Solutions —Irvine, CA
- $170,000 - $185,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- CPA
- Research
- Office
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Controller, Hospitality
ocV!BE —Anaheim, CA
- $175,000 - $210,000 a year
- Full-time
- Bar
- 7 years
- CPA

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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
9 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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