About Piñata

Piñata is the nation’s leading rent rewards and renter fintech platform, powering loyalty, credit-building, and commerce for more than 1 million renters — with 10M+ contracted units coming online in 2025. We partner with property management companies, proptech platforms, and major consumer brands to turn rent — the largest monthly expense for Americans — into a financial unlock.

We’re looking for a Head of Finance & Controller who can architect the systems, team, and financial discipline to support this next phase of growth.

The Role

Piñata is searching for a hybrid finance & operations leader — someone who blends strategic finance, FP&A excellence, accounting expertise, and hands-on execution. This role will be the operational heartbeat of the company, ensuring the business is scaling with clarity, precision, and strong controls while enabling aggressive growth.

This is not a back-office finance role. This is a company-builder role — a leader who can partner with the CEO, own cross-functional execution, run tight financial processes, build models investors trust, drive operational discipline, and help scale Piñata into the category-defining renter loyalty and fintech platform.

What You’ll Own

Strategic Finance

• Own all FP&A: forecasting, budgeting, scenario planning, unit economics, margins, cohort analysis, GTM efficiency, channel economics, and capital planning.
• Build and maintain Piñata’s full financial model and investor reporting frameworks.
• Partner with the CEO on fundraising, investor materials, diligence, and board reporting.
• Design dashboards that bring clarity to the business

Accounting & Compliance

• Oversee corporate accounting, month-end close, accruals, and GAAP compliance.
• Design and enforce controls around revenue recognition — including multi-component, partner-driven, insurance admin fee, and loyalty/points models — ensuring proper ASC 606 treatment.
• Manage audits, tax compliance, financial reporting, and external accounting firms.
• Ensure proper reconciliation across multiple finance and internal systems.

Revenue Operations & Billing

• Own invoicing, collections, and accounts receivable across customers
• Implement automation, manage payables
• Partner with Sales & Customer Success to enforce contract terms, pricing rules, and revenue policies.

Risk, Compliance & Controls (Fintech/Insurance)

• Oversee financial and operational risk frameworks
• Build compliance processes with external partners
• Work closely with external counsel
• Partner with Product on scalable, compliant fintech operations.

Leadership & Team Building

• Build and lead a high-performing finance & operations team (finance, accounting, RevOps, BizOps).
• Drive a culture of clarity, accountability, and operational excellence.
• Serve as a senior thought partner to the CEO and executive team.

Who You Are

• Operator-athlete: able to architect systems and jump into the weeds.
• Strategic & analytical: strong decision frameworks, crisp financial thinking, and clarity.
• Deeply numbers-driven: you love models, dashboards, financial KPIs, revenue logic.
• Process-oriented: you bring order, predictability, and control to a fast-moving environment.
• Startup-proven: ideally from high-growth SaaS, fintech, proptech, or marketplace.
• Low-ego, high-drive: urgent, accountable, and deeply collaborative.
• Comfortable in ambiguity: you create structure where none exists.

Qualifications

• CPA preferred or significant accounting depth (Big 4 or equivalent public accounting/audit experience strongly preferred).Experience leading finance at an early to growth stage company (Series A to C)
• Experience seeing a company through successful M&A transactions
• 7–12+ years in strategic finance, FP&A, operations, BizOps, or similar roles.
• Experience owning and improving the monthly close process and GAAP compliance.
• Strong knowledge of ASC 606 and complex revenue models
• Proven ability to design and maintain financial models, dashboards, and investor reporting.
• Experience in or exposure to fintech, payments, credit, or insurance is a major plus.
• Strong systems skills (QuickBooks, financial tools, CRM/ERP systems, data tooling).
• Experience building and leading teams in a scaling startup environment.

Why Join Piñata

• Build the financial and operational engine of the country’s leading rent rewards and renter fintech platform.
• Own high-impact work that touches every part of the business.
• Work directly with the CEO on strategy, execution, investor relationships, and long-term planning.
• Join a transparent, fast-moving, founder-led team with massive growth ahead.
• Help millions of renters build credit, improve financial health, and unlock real economic value.