How do you make an animation start from a location dynamically?

So far I have it set up so that when the player hits a collider trigger placed at the end of a course a "Goal camera" is enabled and it was set up to look at the target at the end of course before it was hit. It's position changes to follow the position of an empty Game object which has an animation attached to it so the camera snaps to the empty objects position and moves along the animation path.

My main problem is how can I get the empty object (Which I will now call camera helper) to start its animation from the point that the player hits and then move to the location of the animations path and then play the animations path. I was thinking about using a Lerp but thats all I can think of... I'm still working on figuring out what everything does its a bit overwhelming occasionally haha.

The steps so far: - player has a camera follow them to the end of course - player hits a collider trigger - the trigger is supposed to turn on a secondary camera -that camera is supposed to start from the players position and then move to follow the path of a preset animation.

Any advice so far?