Operations Analyst

An Operations Analyst helps manage the oversight of 30+ small-to-medium-sized businesses in the $2M – $10M EBITDA size range in a range of businesses, like specialty contractors, landscaping and garden centers, and outdoor adventure. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to:

• Work with our companies to collect, organize, systematize, and analyze operating metrics.
• Support new company integrations after acquisition, including implementing key operational, HR, and financial systems, and documenting and communicating the key provisions of transaction documents.
• Execute on administrative, support, special research, or operational projects within our portfolio companies, helping our CEOs be successful, to include supporting periodic CEO gatherings and best-practice-sharing events.
• Execute the monthly financial reporting process for portfolio companies, including creating and maintaining individual company reports, compiling data into standardized templates at the fund and company level, and reporting quarterly investment performance to senior management.
• Maintain an internal record of existing debt instruments and contingent payment programs across our portfolio of companies.
• Identify and implement technology tools to optimize the Operations Team processes and information gathering.
• Help draft, format, and edit periodic investor reporting.
• Identify and execute on cross-fund improvements, including opportunities for better documentation and fund-level process automation.
• Help manage new company integrations after acquisition, implementing key operational, HR, and financial systems.
• Execute on Operations-Team-level assignments like financial analysis & modeling, sector & comparable company research, researching software or service vendors, and identifying potential tuck-in acquisition targets.
• Gain invaluable soup-to-nuts integrational and operational experience with multiple flavors of small business alongside a proven team who has been doing this work for years.

Who You’ll be Working With :

You’ll be on the Saturn Five team, and will directly report to and support our seven-member operations team in the multitude of joys and challenges that come with running a large group of small businesses. We work hard, laugh a lot, and trust each other to get after it for our companies and investors. We actively manage to . We think we’re a team most people would like to work with.

What We’re About:

Saturn Five is a long-term-hold investment firm focused on buying and operating some of the best small businesses in America. We are, technically, a lower-middle-market private equity company, but we're a bit different. We buy and hold our investments for the long term, and we invest in companies that we're proud of, but most of the private equity market isn't interested in. If you love the impact of well-run businesses and want to run one yourself someday, we may have a seat waiting for you. We don’t define success simply by the value we generate. We think we can’t really measure what we’ve accomplished unless we also count the ways we’ve made life better for the people we serve, the people who work for us, and the world. And we hope that keeping our eye on those kinds of returns makes us a truly value-added alternative to private equity. You can learn more about Saturn Five in our 2026 Annual Letter.

Requirements:

The position calls for a highly detail-oriented, information-capturing, project-managing, document-drafting beast who is equally at ease consolidating financials as they are documenting a hiring process or capturing and compiling examples of documents we engage with regularly. We like “scrappy” around here, so if you know what it is to serve, and actually like it, you’ll like this gig.

Specifics

• A B.A. or B.S. degree in finance or business with 0-4 years of post-undergrad experience.
• Solid financial acumen - knowledge of general finance and budgeting, and comfort with three-statement financial models, including profit and loss (P&L), balance sheet, and statement of cash flows.
• Outstanding follow-through
• Demonstrated capacity in Excel and Google Sheets.
• Demonstrated excellence in multiple/parallel project planning and management; laser-focused control of your calendar and tracking your to-dos. Expertise with project management tools like Asana and/or Notion is a major plus.
• Ability to source, assess, implement and manage software tools to address specific business needs.
• Facility with gathering and tracking company-supplied metrics and management rhythms.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to communicate and summarize effectively in-person, over the phone, and via email.
• Proven history of ’scrappiness’: a willingness to get on the front lines of an organization when needed and jump into hairy projects with gusto.
• Prior internships or experience in private equity or small businesses is a definite plus.
• Unquestionable integrity and ethics.
• Questionably high tolerance for tired jokes.
  

Benefits :

Compensation:

• $70k-80k base salary, commensurate with experience
• Performance-based bonus equal to 10% of base salary
• Betterment 401(k) with an up-to 4% match
• Health and dental insurance
• Self-directed PTO
• Monthly coaching/counseling stipend
• Monthly date night allowance for you and your spouse