Financial Analyst, Operations Support

Destination Pet, LLC

1d•$85,000 - $90,000•Remote

About The Position

This is a consulting seat inside the operating business. Operations Support exists to make operators better at running their locations. This role brings financial lenses to that work. You will sit alongside operations leadership as a strategic advisor, translating financial results into the operational decisions that produced them and the ones that should follow. That means owning the operating forecast for a portfolio of locations, but the forecast is the starting point, not the deliverable. The value you create is in the conversation after: this margin moved because of that staffing decision, this location's rate structure is leaving money on the table, this initiative will pay back in seven months if we sequence it this way. We are also rebuilding how planning gets done. AI is being integrated into forecasting, variance analysis, and reporting workflows, and it is already how the team works day to day. If you tend to automate the work you would otherwise repeat, you will have room to do that here. We are looking to add a Financial Analyst to our team!

Requirements

2-3 years in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, transaction advisory, or a comparable analytical role
Advanced Excel. Strong financial modeling skills and genuine fluency. You can build a model someone else can pick up and use
Strong PowerPoint. You can turn an analysis into a clear, well-built deck for an operating or executive audience without significant rework
The ability to trace a financial outcome back to the operational decisions that caused it, and to explain that chain to a non-financial operator clearly and without condescension
Comfort working with imperfect data and the judgment to know when a number is good enough to act on
Curiosity about AI and automation, and a track record of teaching yourself tools rather than waiting to be trained
Directness. You will be asked what you think, and the expectation is that you answer.

Nice To Haves

Experience in multi-unit or multi-site operations such as retail, healthcare, hospitality, restaurants, or services
Exposure to Power BI, Tableau, or similar
Experience with Planful or another FP&A planning platform such as Anaplan, Adaptive Insights, or Vena
Experience with acquisition integration or standing up reporting for newly acquired locations
Practical experience applying AI tools to finance or planning workflows

Responsibilities

Serve as the finance partner to a group of operating leaders, the person they call before making a decision rather than after
Connect financial results to the operational levers behind them: staffing and scheduling, capacity utilization, pricing and rate structure, service mix, retention
Diagnose variances to operational root cause and bring a recommended action rather than only an explanation of the variance
Pressure-test growth initiatives, capital requests, and new service offerings with clear, defensible economics.
Build financial fluency in the operators you support, so better decisions get made without you in the room
Own the monthly and quarterly operating forecast for an assigned portfolio, including revenue drivers, labor, and controllable expense
Build and maintain driver-based models grounded in operating metrics such as volume, capacity, rate, and mix rather than historical trend
Lead forecast review conversations: what changed, why, and what it means for the business.
Support the annual budget and long-range planning cycles
Build and improve recurring reporting and executive materials that operators and leadership actually use to run the business
Identify manual work in the planning and reporting process and eliminate it through better model design or AI-assisted workflows