Financial Analyst
Financial Analyst
The opportunity
Finance meets real-world operations. You will own the reporting and insights that help our Amusements teams make better, faster decisions - from attendance and ticket mix to labor, throughput, and spend per guest.
What you'll do
- Develop park-level analytical views to explain performance drivers across attendance, ticket mix, pricing, labor efficiency, and guest spend — identifying trends, anomalies, and opportunities for further investigation.
- Own daily and weekly KPI reporting: build and maintain dashboards, scorecards, and metric definitions the team trusts.
- Partner with department leaders to turn results into action - quantify impact, surface risks, and recommend next steps.
- Lead monthly department financial reviews: connect P&L results to operating drivers (volume, mix, pricing, labor productivity, controllable spend).
- Support forecast and budget cycles with driver-based models and scenario analysis.
- Investigate close variances and partner with Accounting/Operations to ensure accurate accruals and clean month-end storytelling.
- Continuously improve analytical processes by refining metric definitions, automating recurring analysis where possible, and flagging data inconsistencies or emerging risks.
- Deliver ad hoc analysis for leadership (pricing and promotions, staffing plans, hours of operation, vendor decisions, capital requests).
- Conduct on-site analysis at the Gatlinburg location as needed to better understand operations, validate assumptions, build relationships with department leaders, and strengthen financial storytelling.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2+ years in financial analysis, FP&A, or an analytics-heavy role; comfortable working with large datasets.
- Advanced Excel skills (modeling, pivots, Power Query) and strong written/presentation communication.
- High ownership, high attention to detail, and the ability to hit deadlines in a fast-moving environment.
- Ability to travel at least once a week to our Gatlinburg operation.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience supporting a multi-unit, hospitality, retail, resort, or attraction operation.
- Experience providing data analysis to operations or finance teams.
- Power BI experience (data modeling, DAX, and dashboard building).
- ERP/POS data experience (NetSuite preferred) and comfort reconciling across sources.
- SQL familiarity (or strong willingness to learn).