Financial Analyst, Operations

Spot & Tango•New York, NY

6h•$80,000 - $100,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Spot & Tango is hiring a Financial Analyst to join its Finance team in an operations-focused role. The position supports financial planning and analysis while contributing to broader business decisions and strategic initiatives. The analyst will support budgeting and forecasting for key functions; evaluate business opportunities; and help assess capital investments, capacity planning, supplier negotiations, facility expansion, and margin improvement. The role partners with leaders across Finance, Accounting, Operations, Manufacturing, Strategy, and the Executive Team to build financial models, evaluate investments, inform resource allocation, and provide insights that support company growth. This is a hybrid position based in the Midtown Manhattan office, with in-office work required on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Requirements

2–5 years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, supply chain or operations finance, manufacturing finance, or management consulting.
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or another quantitative discipline.
Exceptional financial modeling and analytical skills, including demonstrated experience building complex models and working with large, detailed datasets.
Strong grasp of financial statements and accounting fundamentals.
Intellectual curiosity and a genuine drive to understand the reasons behind the numbers.
Organized, detail-oriented, and committed to producing high-quality work.
Advanced Excel proficiency.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate financial concepts for a non-financial audience and build trusted relationships across the business.
Ability to independently structure ambiguous problems and manage competing priorities.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting a high-growth eCommerce, subscription, direct-to-consumer, or consumer products business.
Experience in a manufacturing, CPG, or food production environment.
Experience with NetSuite and modern BI/reporting tools.
Hands-on experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and business case development.
Interest in or love of dogs.

Responsibilities

Support inventory and product costing, including standard cost maintenance and month-end inventory reconciliations.
Build and maintain operational models covering capacity, throughput, labor, and unit costs to support production and staffing decisions.
Review manufacturing expenses each period and lead monthly budget-versus-actual and forecast-versus-actual reviews with operations leaders.
Explain key variances, identify efficiency and ROI improvement opportunities, flag potential risks, and share insights with finance leadership.
Partner with Accounting during month-end close by supporting accruals, reconciliations, and reclasses, and performing flux analysis.
Support the financial evaluation of capital investments by developing business cases, analyzing ROI and payback periods, reviewing post-investment results, and tracking project spending against approved budgets.
Partner with operations, supply chain, and plant leadership to inform decisions with accurate, relevant data and analysis.
Evaluate supplier and manufacturing partner costs to inform negotiations, pricing decisions, and make-versus-buy analysis.
Provide ad hoc analysis on cost optimization, process improvements, and cross-functional initiatives.