
Senior Analyst, Incentive Compensation
Mariner
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Kansas • United States
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About the role
- Support the calculation, administration, and payment of third-party (3P) compensation programs**
- Interpret complex contract terms and operationalize them into scalable compensation logic**
- Partner with Legal and business stakeholders to implement new or amended agreements**
- Ensure consistent treatment across third-party populations, including legacy arrangements**
- Source, reconcile, and validate large volumes of data from CRM, billing, custody, and accounting systems**
- Configure, maintain, and enhance compensation system logic to support 3P programs**
- Validate compensation results, identify risks and recommend scalable technical solutions**
- Support audits and inquiries related to third-party compensation calculations and payments**
- Partner with Accounting, Legal, Compliance, Technology, and business teams to ensure accurate and timely payments**
- Serve as a technical escalation point for complex 3P compensation scenarios**
- Identify opportunities to standardize and automate third-party compensation processes**
- Build and maintain detailed documentation for compensation logic, data sources, and system workflows**
- Support system enhancements, migrations, and future-state design related to 3P compensation**
- Contribute to training and enablement materials for internal teams supporting third-parties
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, math/accountancy, data science, or related field, preferred**
- 3–5+years of experience in incentive compensation, accounting, finance, or data-insights roles**
- Experience administering variable or 3P compensation programs in a service industry, preferred**
- Understanding of revenue sources, financial reporting, and contract-driven compensation **
- structures**
- Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy**
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to explain calculations and outcomes **
- to stakeholders**
- Critical thinking and resourceful problem-solving abilities**
- Advanced MS Excel capabilities**
- Experience with compensation/commission systems or technology (e.g., Oracle, Xactly), **
- preferred**
- Experience with data transformation, ETL, or visualization tools (e.g., Alteryx), preferred**
- Basic understanding of programming languages such as SQL and desire to advance technical **
- skills
Benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
incentive compensationaccountingfinancedata insightsdata transformationETLSQLadvanced MS Excelcompensation systemsfinancial reporting
Soft Skills
analytical skillsattention to detailcommunication skillsinterpersonal skillscritical thinkingproblem-solvingresourcefulness