Budget and FP&A Director

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.

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 agency wide 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.

• 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 agency wide 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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…