Corporate Finance Manager

Homes by WestBay & Casa Fresca Homes offer a new kind of home building experience with a focus on delivering an exceptional homebuilding experience at an outstanding value. Recognized both nationally and regionally for our award-winning new home designs, we offer new single-family homes for sale throughout the finest new communities within the greater Tampa Bay area. Founded in 2009, we have evolved into the largest, privately owned new homebuilder in the Tampa Bay and Central Florida markets. 

Job Summary

Corporate Finance Manager will serve as a key member of the finance leadership team and will support a broad range of corporate finance functions, including treasury, capital raising, financial planning and analysis, land acquisition underwriting, capital allocation, and strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate will bring a strong foundation in investment banking, corporate finance, real estate, homebuilding, or private equity, with the ability to combine rigorous financial analysis with practical business judgment. This is a high-impact role with direct exposure to senior leadership, capital providers, land acquisition teams, and operating leaders across the business. This position will report directly to the Chief Financial Officer and will work closely with executive leadership, accounting, land acquisition, operations, purchasing, and external capital partners.

Responsibilities

• Support the CFO in managing the company’s capital structure, liquidity, debt capacity, and financing strategy.
• Assist with bank relationships, credit facility management, lender reporting, covenant compliance, and capital provider communications.
• Support debt financing, land banking, joint venture, and other capital raising initiatives.
• Prepare financial materials for banks, equity partners, board members, shareholders, and other capital providers.
• Evaluate financing alternatives and provide recommendations on cost of capital, liquidity impact, covenant capacity, and strategic fit. 
• Manage and enhance short-term and long-term cash forecasting processes.
• Monitor liquidity, borrowing capacity, cash needs, and capital deployment across the business.
• Support treasury operations, including cash management, revolver activity, letters of credit, interest expense forecasting, and banking relationships.
• Identify opportunities to improve cash conversion, working capital efficiency, and treasury controls.
• Lead or support the company’s annual budget, monthly forecasts, long-range planning, and scenario analysis.
• Partner with operating leaders to evaluate business performance, identify risks and opportunities, and improve forecast accuracy.
• Develop executive-level reporting packages, KPI dashboards, variance analyses, and financial presentations.
• Provide financial analysis on revenue, gross margin, SG&A, EBITDA, cash flow, inventory, land spend, and return on capital.
• Partner with land acquisition and division leadership to underwrite new land deals, community investments, and strategic growth opportunities.
• Build and review detailed financial models evaluating IRR, gross margin, cash flow, lot takedown structures, absorption, pricing, incentives, and downside scenarios.
• Assess deal structures including owned land, optioned land, land banking, joint ventures, and phased takedown arrangements.
• Prepare investment committee materials and help ensure land decisions are supported by disciplined financial analysis
• Support strategic initiatives, M&A analysis, market expansion opportunities, and operational improvement projects.
• Conduct market, competitor, and industry analysis to inform capital allocation and growth strategy.
• Help develop institutional-quality presentations for shareholders, board members, banks, and other key stakeholders.
• Serve as a thought partner to the CFO on financial strategy, risk management, and business planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Real Estate, or a related field; MBA, CFA, preferred but not required.
• Investment banking experience strongly preferred, ideally as an analyst or associate in real estate, homebuilding, industrials, leveraged finance, M&A, or corporate finance.
• Strong financial modeling, valuation, credit analysis, and presentation skills.
• Experience with corporate finance, capital markets, treasury, FP&A, private equity, real estate investment, or homebuilding preferred.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, with the ability to create clean, executive-ready materials.
• Strong understanding of financial statements, cash flow, leverage, liquidity, returns, and capital allocation.
• Ability to work directly with senior executives and communicate complex financial topics clearly and concisely.
• Highly organized, intellectually curious, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

Additional Requirements

• This is an on-site position based in the Tampa Bay area and will require relocation if you are not currently located in the area. While the role is primarily in-person, there may be limited access to remote work at the discretion of management and based on business needs.
• This is an exempt role, which may require working more than eight hours per day.
• Being authorized to work in the U.S. without employer sponsorship is a precondition of employment.

Homes by WestBay, LLC and Casa Fresca Homes – Cool House, LLC., is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The company provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Other duties may be assigned as necessary, and reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.