Director – Strategic Finance

Investing in real estate is one of the most reliable and powerful ways to build generational wealth. From Main Street to Wall Street, investors remain bullish on the long-term returns from residential real estate, especially the single-family home. More Americans are choosing to rent single-family homes for the convenience and low cost of entry. And a new breed of investors is opting to skip the starter home and buy investment properties instead, with a catch: they want to buy outside their own backyard, in fast-growing, mid-sized cities where the price is right and the returns are high.

But investing in real estate isn’t easy – and doing it remotely is even more challenging. From finding the right assets in the right neighborhoods for the right price, to renovating, leasing and managing the property, to collecting rent and handling repairs, to ensuring you’re staying compliant with local laws and regulations, managing a remote investment portfolio can become a full-time job.

That’s where Mynd comes in. We’re a tech-enabled property management and real estate investment company serving more than 18,000 homes across 26 markets. We help individual and institutional investors buy, renovate, market, manage and sell single-family homes. And we help our residents find safe, spacious, and low-maintenance homes from which to launch their lives.

We bring together talent and expertise from real estate and tech to build a proprietary platform that is unmatched in our industry. Powerful workflows, AI tools and intuitive consumer apps help our teams deliver great service, make life easy for residents, and give investors powerful portfolio insights at their fingertips.

We’re making it possible for a new generation of Americans to dream their way – decoupling the homes they live in from the homes they invest in.

We’re grateful to have been named one of Fortune’s “Best Places to Work” 2023, a Built-In SF Best Places to Work winner, the #1 fastest-growing company in the East Bay by the San Francisco Business Times, one of the 26 hottest proptech startups of 2023 by Business Insider, and one of America’s Best Startup Employers of 2023 per Forbes. We’ve attracted A players from Starwood Waypoint Homes, Opendoor, McKinsey, BCG, Amazon, Facebook, Upwork, WeWork, One Medical, and Zillow. We’re backed by top VCs, including Lightspeed, Canaan, and Jackson Square, and major institutional investors including Invesco Real Estate.

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About the role

As the Director of Strategic Finance, you will be a key driver in the company’s financial growth and efficiency. Your role is crucial in developing, interpreting, and implementing financial concepts for financial planning and control. You will be instrumental in driving strategic business decisions through rigorous financial analysis, forecasting, and budgeting.

Mynd operates as a complex 4-sided marketplace, balancing value creation and extraction between four important stakeholders: property investors, residents, technicians, and property managers. Your expertise in financial planning and analysis (FP&A) will be vital in helping to create a win-win situation for all parties involved, ensuring financial sustainability and growth.

Your responsibilities in this role will be extensive and impactful. You will lead financial forecasting and budgeting processes, advise on long-term business and financial planning, and provide strategic recommendations to the executive management team. Your work will have a profound impact across the organization and beyond as you help Mynd continue to grow and thrive in this dynamic marketplace.

Get ready to make a significant difference; you will have the power to drive strategic financial decisions, transform business outcomes, and make a real impact on the financial health of the organization. Let’s get started!

Responsibilities

• Manage financial forecasting and budgeting processes, including the preparation of internal management and board reporting.
• Provide strategic recommendations to finance leadership and the executive management team based on rigorous financial analysis.
• Assess company performance against both the annual budget and the company’s long-term strategy, making necessary adjustments and recommendations.
• Conduct detailed variance analysis to drive a deeper understanding of the business and its financial performance.
• Coordinate with other finance and business partner team members to review financial information and forecasts.
• Manage, coach, and develop finance team members, promoting their professional growth and enhancing team performance.
• Lead ad-hoc projects that drive organizational goals, bringing together cross-functional teams for discussion.
• Provide leadership to finance department team members, fostering a culture of independence and cross-organizational collaboration.
• Prepare succinct presentations for decision-makers, translating complex data into actionable insights.

Preferred qualifications

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting. An MBA or related advanced degree is preferred.
• 7+ years of relevant work experience in business finance, consulting, or other relevant experience.
• Proven experience as finance leader with a track record of leading a team through successful outcomes.
• High proficiency in financial modeling and advanced knowledge of Excel and/or Google Sheets.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills. Problem solving and analytical abilities, advanced knowledge of Excel and/or Google Sheets.
• Effective communication and presentation skills. Ability to take complex topics, analyze and distill them down to actions and decision points.
• Proficient in the use of financial management software (e.g., NetSuite, Adaptive Planning).
• Effective partnership and influencing skills, able to work with every level of the organization.
• Ability to take initiative and work independently in an unstructured, fast-moving, growth-oriented Series-C organization.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and thrive in an environment with rapidly changing conditions.

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation.

Compensation

$164,500 – $223,000 annually. The compensation range may be adjusted based on experience and location.

At Mynd, we offer a robust, competitive & unique benefits package

• Unlimited time off
• 13 Paid holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Cash to purchase your own investment property through our “Project Investor Myndset” program
• 401k + Match
• Wellness, home office, and cell phone subsidies
• Volunteer time off
• Robust health, dental, vision insurance, and more
• Sabbatical program
• Eligible to participate in Mynd’s equity program

At Mynd, we expect our team members to live and work by our values

• Be Myndful
• Earn trust
• Team first
• Be an A player
• Think like an investor

As part of our dedication to diversity, Mynd is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Individuals seeking employment at Mynd are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other legally protected category.

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