Accounting Analyst

Job Category:
Accounting & Finance

Requisition Number: INCEN
013459

• Full-Time
• Hybrid

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INCENTIVE ACCOUNTING ANALYST

(No Relocation Package)

Join a collaborative Accounting & Finance team where you'll play a key role in calculating incentive compensation, supporting month-end close activities, reconciling financial data, and ensuring the accuracy of the company's variable compensation programs.

As one of the United States’ largest light industrial staffing company and a broad workforce solutions provider, our digital-enabled approach to staffing is rooted in a rich history of delivering high-quality, scalable workforce solutions to the organizations driving the American supply chain. Our colleagues are guided by our purpose of Championing People, Unlocking Potential, and they bring this to life every day as they help put hundreds of thousands of people to work at thousands of companies across the country.

The foundation of our culture is built upon a bridge to better, offering our colleagues rewarding and growth-oriented experiences that positively impact the lives and businesses in innovative and meaningful ways.

The Incentive Accounting Analyst is responsible for the day-to-day administration, calculation, financial reporting, and accounting of the company's variable compensation programs. Reporting within Commercial Accounting, this role serves as the primary connection between incentive plan execution and financial reporting, ensuring the accurate calculation, accrual, payment, reconciliation, and analysis of incentive compensation across the organization.

• This position is a hands-on role that balances incentive compensation administration and accounting responsibilities. The analyst is responsible for managing large volumes of incentive data, maintaining participant and plan information, performing calculations and reconciliations, supporting month-end close activities, and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of incentive-related financial results. The role works closely with Accounting, Payroll, Finance, and Operations partners to support timely and accurate compensation payments while maintaining strong financial controls.
• The position oversees the monthly, quarterly, and annual incentive compensation cycles for field producers, branch and regional leadership, and corporate bonus participants, while owning the related accounting activities, including incentive accruals, expense analysis, balance sheet reconciliations, and general ledger reporting. This role plays a critical part in supporting an accurate and timely financial close by ensuring incentive-related financial results are complete, accurate, and well supported.

• Manage the end-to-end incentive compensation process by collecting, validating, analyzing, and maintaining production and performance data, including gross profit, margin, placements, spread, and goal attainment.
• Calculate monthly, quarterly, and annual incentive compensation payments and ensure calculations are accurate, complete, and supported by appropriate documentation.
• Maintain participant records, organizational structures, eligibility rules, plan configurations, and compensation-related data used in incentive calculations.
• Ensure timely approvals and delivery of payout files to Payroll, including support for off-cycle payments, pr orations, retroactive adjustments, and correction processing.
• Prepare and maintain incentive accruals and true-ups by developing accurate monthly estimates across all compensation plans, including quarterly and annual incentive programs.
• Own incentive accounting and reconciliations by maintaining the accuracy and integrity of incentive-related expense and liability accounts.
• Reconcile incentive calculations, payroll payments, and general ledger activity; maintain accrual roll-forwards; and investigate, resolve, and document reconciling items and aged balances.
• Support month-end close activities related to incentive compensation, including journal entries, account reconciliations, analysis, reporting, and audit support.
• Provide incentive expense analysis and financial insights by preparing variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior periods.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for incentive-related inquiries by responding to questions from producers, managers, and regional leaders regarding incentive calculations and payouts.
• Partner with Payroll, Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, and…