Director of Finance
20 hours ago
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Summary
Pylon is seeking a Director of Finance to lead their financial operations in San Francisco, CA. The role involves ensuring financial systems, controls, and reporting evolve as the company scales its product and capital footprint.
About the Role
As the Director of Finance, you will own core accounting processes, financial reporting, budgeting, audit readiness, and compliance. You will also serve as a strategic partner to leadership on capital strategy, product expansion, and operational scalability. Your responsibilities include managing accounting for mortgage loan pipelines, collaborating with cross-functional teams, leading budgeting and forecasting efforts, overseeing audits, and building scalable financial systems.
About You
Required:
- 7–12 years of progressive accounting and finance experience, ideally in B2B fintech, mortgage, or financial services.
- Deep understanding of GAAP and mortgage accounting, including loan origination, funding, servicing, and securitization.
- Experience with loan accounting software and financial systems.
- Strong Excel skills and proficiency in reporting/analytics tools (e.g., PowerBI, Looker).
- Previous ownership of month-end close, audits, compliance, and financial reporting.
- Proven ability to lead and scale accounting operations in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
- Experience managing or mentoring junior accounting/finance team members.
- Clear, confident communicator who can work cross-functionally and present to leadership.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage competing priorities effectively.
- Comfortable in ambiguous environments with evolving requirements.
Preferred:
- CPA preferred but not required.
Benefits
- Opportunity to build financial infrastructure in a deeply technical, high-growth startup.
- Be a key player in a category-defining fintech infrastructure company.
Pylon
Pylon is the modern alternative to Zendesk, optimized for B2B. We bring together everything a post-sales teams team needs including a ticketing system, B2B omnichannel integrations (Slack Connect, Microsoft Teams), modern chat widget, knowledge base, AI support bot, account management, customer marketing, and more.
San Francisco, CA