Sr. Financial Analyst

• Location 1201 Winterson Road,Linthicum Heights, MD, 21090,United States
• Employee Type FT Non-Exempt

Work Location: Remote

Function/Department: Finance & Accounting

Reports to: CFO

Company Overview:

WagWay Group is a PE-backed pet clubs and wellness company with operating brands across the U.S. WagWay was established to build a national, contemporary network of leading pet wellness providers in attractive markets. WagWay pet centers offer daycare, boarding, grooming, training, and vet services under a comprehensive model. The Company aspires to set the standard for pet wellness through the combination of service excellence, innovation, and pet health monitoring.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a hands-on FP&A leader to build, lead, and continuously improve our financial planning, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and business analysis capabilities. This role requires someone who can operate at both a strategic and highly detailed level: a finance partner who can build robust models, create executive-ready reporting, translate data into insight, and tell a clear story that links financials-to-operations and drives understanding and action. This is a high-impact, highly visible role that will work directly with the CFO and leadership team regularly, as well as Board Members and key leaders within the Private Equity group.

The ideal candidate is highly analytical, deeply proficient in Excel and PowerPoint, and comfortable owning the full FP&A cycle: from annual budgets and rolling forecasts to board materials, variance analysis, KPI reporting, and decision-support models. This person should be able to take incomplete information, structure it thoughtfully, and produce outputs that are accurate, clear, and easy for business leaders to act on.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Build and maintain financial models that support revenue, margin, labor, operating expense, cash flow, headcount, store/unit economics, and scenario planning
• Own recurring financial reporting packages for leadership, including monthly business reviews, budget-versus-actual reporting, KPI dashboards, and variance analysis
• Translate financial and operational data into clear narratives that explain performance, identify risks and opportunities, and support decision-making
• Develop executive-ready PowerPoint presentations that communicate complex financial information clearly and drive productive action
• Lead/support annual budgeting, rolling forecasting, and long-range planning processes
• Build scalable FP&A processes, templates, reporting calendars, models, and operating rhythms
• Proactively analyze business trends, monitor unit economics of key business lines, identify outliers/exceptions, connect dots and tell robust stories that drive organizational action
• Leverage internal and external benchmarking to identify best practices and areas of opportunity across locations
• Create data visualizations and dashboards that clearly present data, incorporate all supportive data points, and highlight the “so what” that points leaders toward action
• Support strategic initiatives, investment decisions, pricing, labor planning, expansion analysis, cost reduction efforts, and profitability improvement projects
• Improve the quality, consistency, and accessibility of financial and operational reporting
• Present findings and recommendations to senior leadership in a clear, concise, and action-oriented manner
• Partner cross-functionally with operations and other support teams to develop financial acumen, ensure understanding of business drivers, and deliver performance expectations
• Collaborate with Access Holdings to cross-pollinate strategies and share playbooks across the portfolio
• All other duties as assigned

Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, or related-field required
• 2+ years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, or strategic finance experience
• Exceptional Excel skills, including complex financial modeling, scenario analysis, driver-based planning, and large dataset manipulation
• Strong PowerPoint skills with the ability to build polished, executive-ready presentations
• Demonstrated ability to turn financial and operational data into compelling business narratives that drive understanding, alignment, and action
• Experience operating in a multi-location, multi-entity, retail, services, hospitality, petcare, or similarly complex environment
• Experience building “bottom-up” multi-unit models that roll into a complex “top-down” company-level plans
• Experience creating dashboards, KPI reporting, and data visualizations
• Experience with BI and AI data aggregation and visualization tools
• Understanding of basic accounting principles and GAAP
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and building structure where processes are evolving or incomplete
• M&A transaction and Private Equity experience is a plus
• NetSuite experience is a plus
• High ownership mentality, sound judgment, and a bias toward practical, scalable solutions
• Ability to balance big picture thinking with detailed execution; can connect financial details to broader business implications
• High emotional intelligence, low ego, and collaborative leadership style; able to build trusted relationships with peers and executives/founders alike

Personal Characteristics

• Curiosity : asks probing \"why\" and \"how\" questions; digs into data and first principles before forming conclusions; proactively learns the industry, business model, and customer
• Humility : seeks feedback early; admits mistakes quickly; prioritizes team outcomes over personal credit; adjusts views when presented with better evidence; encourages and fosters an environment where others feel safe doing the same
• Drive : sets ambitious goals; takes full ownership of results; persists through obstacles; consistently follows through without reminders
• Proactive : identifies gaps and solves them without being asked; anticipates downstream impact; flags risks early with proposed solutions
• Thought-leader : generates practical, non-obvious solutions; challenges assumptions respectfully; applies structured thinking to ambiguous problems
• Efficient : moves quickly without sacrificing quality; prioritizes high-impact work; makes timely decisions with imperfect information

WagWay 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. We believe that a diverse team is a better team. The perspectives and experiences that people from different backgrounds bring to a company drive better decisions and improved results. WagWay is committed to a culture of inclusion and believes that diversity drives the best results.