Incentive Analyst

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- Aveanna Connection Groups: Employee-led groups where shared identities and experiences create spaces for connection, collaboration, and support.

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- Every year, we dedicate a day to giving back through our Annual Service Day, making a meaningful impact in the communities we serve.

Position Overview
The Incentives Analyst will be responsible for calculating and supporting Aveanna’s employee bonus and commission programs, ensuring that all incentive payouts are accurate, timely, and aligned with established performance metrics and compensation policies. This role will involve complex financial calculations and analysis to validate that incentive plans are applied fairly, accurately, and consistently across the organization. This position will report to the Finance department but will work closely with the Compensation team to ensure alignment between financial processes and compensation strategies. 

Essential Functions

• Design, build, and maintain Excel models to calculate complex employee bonuses, commissions, and incentive payouts
• Analyze performance data and apply business rules to ensure accurate compensation calculations
• Collaborate with HR, Sales, Finance, and Operations teams to gather inputs, validate metrics, and implement compensation plans
• Audit, reconcile, and troubleshoot discrepancies in bonus and commission data
• Provide accounting and finance with accurate and up to date accruals of future incentive payouts for purposes of journal entry creation and forecasting
• Support annual compensation planning cycles, including merit, bonus, and incentive processes
• Maintain documentation for audit readiness and compliance
• Conduct ROI analysis to assess the value and efficiency of bonus and commission programs

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in compensation or financial analysis, financial modeling, or bonus/commissions processing
• Advanced Excel skills required, including:
  • LOOKUP functions, nested formulas, error-checking
  • PivotTables, Power Query, Power Pivot
  • Data validation, error-checking, conditional logic
  • VBA/macros (preferred but not required)
• Strong attention to detail and high level of accuracy
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Ability to handle confidential data with discretion
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a high-growth or sales-driven organization
• Familiarity with Workday HRIS is advantageous
• Experience with other data tools (SQL, Power BI, Tableau) is a plus

Other Skills/Abilities

Ability to adhere to confidentiality standards and professional boundaries at all times.
Quick-thinking and astute decision-making skills
Attention to detail
Ability to effectively manage time and meet deadlines
Effective problem-solving and conflict resolution skills
Excellent organizational and communication skills
Ability to remain calm and professional in stressful situations
Strong commitment to excellence

Physical Requirements
Must be able to speak, write, read, and understand English
Occasional lifting, caring, pushing and pulling of up to 25 pounds
Prolonged walking, standing, bending, kneeling, reaching, twisting
Must be able to sit and climb stairs
Must have visual and hearing acuity

Environment
Performs duties in an office environment during agency operating hours.
Must be able to function in a wide variety of environments which may involve exposure to allergens and other various conditions.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Vaccination Requirements
As an employer accepting Medicare and Medicaid funds, employees must comply with all health-related requirements in all relevant jurisdictions, including required vaccinations and testing, subject to exemptions for medical or religious reasons as appropriate.

As an employer accepting Medicare and Medicaid funds, employees must comply with all health-related requirements in all relevant jurisdictions, including required vaccinations and testing, subject to exemptions for medical or religious reasons as appropriate.

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