About Rewards Network 

Celebrating our 40th year, Rewards Network has helped restaurants increase their revenue, traffic, and customer engagement through our innovative financial, marketing services, and premier dining rewards programs. We connect diners to fantastic restaurant experiences by offering unique card-linked offers.  Our offers leverage advanced technology and powerful data analytics, providing value to our restaurants, diners, and strategic partners' loyalty programs.

Our Culture 

At Rewards Network, you will find a passionate and diverse group of professionals that enjoy working collaboratively, solving problems, and taking ownership of not only their own careers and success, but the success and continued growth of the organization. We take pride in partnering with the world's most powerful loyalty programs to bring full price paying customers and better ways to access working capital options to local restaurants. We offer a challenging and rewarding environment where you can maximize your potential.

Job Overview

The Associate Financial Analyst will initially be responsible for the analysis, reporting, administration, and maintenance of our sales compensation plans. Leveraging collaborative relationships across departments, the analyst will enhance data integrity and report results to accounting, sales, and leadership. Growth opportunities include larger reporting responsibilities across sales, partnerships, and finance, affording a deep understanding of the business and the ability to deliver enterprise value.

This is a hybrid role, with a regular in-office presence at our downtown office 2+ days per week.

What you’ll bring to the table: (Responsibilities)  

• Collaborate with external teams across data science, Salesforce, and sales operations to timely resolve any data integrity issues and effectively administer the compensation plans
• Log and enter all manual entries into Incent to ensure accurate monthly commissions calculate before the system closes for the month

• Report the monthly commission accrual to Accounting by the third business day

• Supply the final commission figures to Payroll before the monthly payroll deadline
• Review and answer questions timely from the various Sales Teams regarding their monthly results
• Analyze existing and develop new reporting tools to evaluate plan performance
• Implement continuous process improvements to streamline monthly processes

• Assist in future compensation plan design, implementation, and rollout.

Do you have the right mix of ingredients: (Requirements)

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, human resources, or finance required
• 1+ years of working or equivalent internship experience required
• Proficient with MS Office applications
• Outstanding people skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Strong problem-solving skills

What you’ll love about us: 

Competitive base salary and comprehensive benefits package, which includes:

• Competitive Paid Time Off and company holidays
• Generous dining reimbursement when you dine with our restaurant clients. 
• 401(k) plan with a company match
• Two medical plan options- Standard PPO or High Deductible Health Plan (HSA with company match for HDHP participants)
• Partnership with Rx n Go, offering certain prescriptions for free.
• Two dental plan options and a vision plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts and a pre-tax commuter benefit program
• Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance Plans
• Short Term and Long Term disability 
• Company-paid life insurance and AD&D insurance, supplemental employee, spouse, and child life insurance 
• Employee Life Assistance Program
• Hybrid working space in our state of the art office downtown located by the Metra and Ogilvie train stations.

Rewards Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We encourage and strongly support workplace diversity.