At Rite-Hite, your work makes an impact. As the global leader in loading dock and door equipment, we design and deliver solutions that keep our customers safe, secure, and productive. Here, you’ll find innovation, stability, and the chance to grow your career as part of a team that’s always looking ahead.
Rite-Hite is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for the administration, analysis, governance, and continuous improvement of variable compensation programs supporting the organization's sales and service teams. You will develop financial models, performs scenario and sensitivity analyses, and evaluate the financial impact of compensation strategies to support business planning, incentive plan design, and executive decision-making. By translating complex data into actionable insights, you will help optimize compensation investments while aligning incentive programs with organizational objectives.
Working cross-functionally with Sales, Service, Finance, HR, IT, and Business Leadership, you will partner with stakeholders to forecast compensation expense, model plan changes, validate performance data, ensure accurate and timely incentive calculations, and identify opportunities to improve processes, controls, and reporting. This role combines strategic financial analysis with operational execution to support a high-performing distribution organization.
This position is a hybrid role with 3 days a week out of our Milwaukee, WI Global Headquarters.
Key Responsibilities
Variable Compensation Administration
- Administer monthly, quarterly, and annual incentive compensation calculations for sales, service and administrative employees in the distribution organization.
- Validate performance metrics and compensation results prior to payout.
- Ensure compensation calculations comply with approved plan documents and governance standards.
- Coordinate compensation processing with Payroll and Finance.
- Maintain compensation calendars and meet established processing deadlines.
Data Management & Analysis
- Collect, cleanse, and validate performance data from CRM, ERP, service management, and financial systems.
- Analyze sales, revenue, margin, service, and operational performance against incentive plans.
- Develop recurring and ad hoc reports to monitor compensation trends and business performance.
- Perform variance analyses to identify unexpected payout results or data discrepancies.
- Support forecasting of incentive expense and accruals.
Compensation Plan Suppor