Budget and FP&A Director

Job Description

Job Description

The Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency (LACAHSA) is a new agency, created to address the ongoing challenges of affordable housing in L.A. County. We help people stay in their homes and increase housing options in all communities of Los Angeles County.  

 

Our agency was created by California state legislation sponsored by community organizations and housing experts, approved by the State Legislature, and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. 

 

We are governed by a Board of 22 Los Angeles County leaders, including elected officials and housing experts. 

 

Now that you know who we are, here’s what we’re building and how you can help shape it. Lead LACAHSA’s annual budgeting process in close partnership with executive leadership and key stakeholders across Accounting, Programs, Strategic Investments, and Technical Assistance (TA). Develop and align agencywide budgets that clearly reflect our strategic priorities and intentionally allocate resources across Production, Preservation, and Ownership (PPO), Renter Protection and Homelessness Prevention (RPHP), TA, and core administrative functions.

This role ensures our financial strategy is not only operationally sound but also directly aligned with mission execution and regional impact.

What You’ll Do:

Financial Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

• Lead the development, implementation, and ongoing management of LACAHSA's annual operating and program budgets, ensuring alignment with agency priorities, funding requirements, and long-term financial objectives.
• Develop and maintain multi-year financial plans and long-range forecasts that provide leadership with visibility into LACAHSA's projected revenues, expenditures, liquidity, and overall fiscal position.
• Establish agencywide budgeting and forecasting methodologies, assumptions, calendars, templates, controls, and reporting standards.
• Lead rolling forecasts and periodic budget updates to reflect changes in revenues, expenditures, staffing, program activity, funding allocations, and organizational priorities.
• Develop sophisticated financial models to evaluate alternative funding, spending, staffing, and program scenarios.
• Perform scenario, sensitivity, trend, and variance analyses to identify financial risks, opportunities, and emerging issues.
• Partner with department leaders to develop budgets and forecasts that accurately reflect operational and programmatic needs.

Revenue, Cash Flow & Fiscal Analysis

• Develop and maintain comprehensive revenue forecasts, including analysis of Measure A receipts and other agency funding sources.
• Prepare short- and long-term cash-flow forecasts to assess liquidity and inform the timing of programmatic and administrative disbursements.
• Analyze revenue and expenditure trends and identify material deviations from financial plans.
• Evaluate the financial sustainability and affordability of proposed initiatives, programs, staffing plans, and other significant commitments.
• Develop financial projections that help leadership evaluate resource allocation decisions and competing organizational priorities.
• Monitor key financial assumptions and external factors that may affect LACAHSA's fiscal outlook.

Financial Performance & Executive Decision Support

• Serve as a strategic financial advisor to the CFO, CEO, executive leadership, and department leaders.
• Translate complex financial information into clear, actionable insights and recommendations for financial and operational decision-making.
• Develop executive-level financial reports, dashboards, presentations, and analyses that clearly communicate financial performance, forecasts, risks, and opportunities.
• Prepare financial analyses and materials for executive leadership, Board committees, and the Board of Directors, as appropriate.
• Establish key financial and operational performance indicators and develop mechanisms for monitoring performance against budget and forecast.
• Provide financial analysis supporting major agency initiatives, funding strategies, program investments, and organizational decisions.

FP&A Infrastructure & Continuous Improvement

• Build scalable FP&A processes, policies, tools, and reporting frameworks appropriate for a growing public finance authority.
• Implement and optimize financial planning technologies, business intelligence tools, dashboards, and automated reporting capabilities.
• Champion modern FP&A practices, including rolling forecasts, scenario planning, predictive analytics, and data visualization.
• Improve the accessibility, consistency, timeliness, and transparency of financial information across the organization.
• Establish appropriate documentation, internal controls, and quality-assurance practices for FP&A processes and financial models.
• Partner with Accounting to ensure financial planning and management reporting are supported by accurate and reliable financial information.

Leadership & Cross-Functional Partnership

• Build trusted partnerships across LACAHSA and promote financial accountability and ownership among department leaders.
• Guide departments in developing financial assumptions, forecasts, staffing projections, and budget requests.
• Communicate complex financial concepts to financial and non-financial audiences in a clear and accessible manner.
• Lead and develop FP&A staff as the function grows, establishing clear expectations, priorities, and performance standards.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and data-informed decision-making.

What You Bring:  

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Public Administration, or a closely related field.
• Eight (8) or more years of progressively responsible experience in government budgeting and financial planning and analysis.
• Significant experience developing and managing complex annual budgets, multi-year financial forecasts, financial models, and management reporting.
• Demonstrated knowledge of government or public-sector finance, including budgeting, revenue and expenditure forecasting, fiscal analysis, and financial reporting.
• Experience providing financial analysis and recommendations to executive leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex financial information and translate findings into actionable business and policy insights.
• Experience partnering with operational and program leaders to develop budgets, forecasts, and financial strategies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex financial information to executive and non-financial audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to operate successfully in a dynamic organization where financial systems, processes, and infrastructure continue to evolve.

Desired Experience:

• Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Public Administration, Public Policy, or a related discipline.
• CPA, CGFM, CPFO, CFA, or other relevant professional certification.
• Ten (10) or more years of progressively responsible finance experience, including leadership responsibility.
• Experience working for a government agency, public authority, special district, municipal organization, or other public-sector entity.
• Experience with public-sector budgeting, government revenue forecasting and multi-fund financial environments.
• Experience preparing financial analyses or presentations for governing boards, commissions, or public-sector executive leadership.
• Experience within affordable housing, housing finance, homelessness prevention, community development, or another publicly funded program environment.
• Experience establishing or significantly modernizing an FP&A function.
• Advanced experience with business intelligence, financial planning, ERP, and data-visualization platforms.

Key Competencies:  

Strategic Financial Leadership: Connects financial planning with organizational strategy and provides leadership with forward-looking insights that support sound fiscal decisions.

Government & Public Finance Acumen: Understands the accountability, transparency, funding, and governance considerations inherent in managing public resources.

Financial Modeling & Analytical Rigor: Builds sophisticated financial models and converts complex datasets into reliable forecasts and decision-ready analysis.

Executive Communication: Communicates financial information clearly and concisely and can explain the implications behind the numbers to executives, Board members, and non-financial stakeholders.

Business Partnership: Develops strong relationships across functions and works collaboratively with leaders to strengthen financial planning and accountability.

Judgment & Integrity: Exercises sound judgment, maintains the highest ethical standards, and understands the responsibility associated with stewardship of public funds.

Builder's Mindset: Thrives in an evolving organization and can develop sophisticated financial processes, systems, and reporting structures from the ground up.

Intellectual Curiosity & Initiative: Proactively investigates trends, challenges assumptions, identifies emerging risks and opportunities, and acts effectively when information is incomplete.

 

Technical Skills:

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including complex financial modeling, scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, and large-data analysis.
• Advanced knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, long-range financial planning, cash-flow forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Experience with ERP, budgeting/forecasting, financial reporting, and business intelligence systems.
• Ability to develop executive dashboards and financial visualizations that translate complex data into meaningful insights.
• Strong understanding of financial statements and the relationship between accounting results, budgets, forecasts, cash flow, and financial performance.

Compensation Range: 

We are committed to equitable compensation practices, and we offer an annual salary ranging from $165,895.00 to $195,895.00 , depending on your experience and qualifications. 

We Offer Amazing Benefits Too:  

• Great PPO health insurance options, and we will cover 100% of your premiums for Medical, Dental & Vision
• Fully paid Life and AD&D insurance coverage
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Generous retirement benefit where we match employee contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to 5% of the employee’s salary, with immediate vesting
• Paid time off, including 14 holidays, two weeks of sick leave, and two weeks of accruable vacation for new, full-time employees in their first year

 

Equal Opportunity
LACAHSA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a 

diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the community we serve.

We strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and veterans