Financial Analyst

About the job

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).

Salary: $65,000-$75,000 (experience dependent).