Financial Analyst, Compensation

About Homeward

Homeward takes the “what ifs” out of homebuying by creating financial products that give buyers and sellers certainty and convenience. We’re a fast-paced, remote-first real estate startup that partners with real estate agents to offer innovative products and services, helping clients buy with cash, sell with certainty, and time their move, regardless of the market.

Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018 to fix the antiquated and broken real estate process. Today, we offer bundled cash offers, mortgage, and title services in 13 states, enabling buyers and sellers to move with certainty and convenience.

We’re a fully remote company with a diverse team spread across several countries - Grounded in three core values: The Golden Rule, One Team One Dream, and Calm Focus. Hear from our employees about what our values mean to them.

About The Role

We are seeking a Financial Analyst - Compensation to own the end-to-end reporting, analysis, and fulfillment of our commission-driven roles. The Compensation team is responsible for measuring the effectiveness of our commission cycle and all the processes that contribute to variable incentive pay at Homeward. We work cross-functionally across the organization to ensure timely and accurate fulfillment of our commission compensation agreements and calibrate incentive structures, driving successful outcomes for our team members.

In this role, you will:

• Advanced proficiency in Excel modeling, including building and maintaining complex financial or operational models
• Proactive mindset with a demonstrated ability to take initiative and drive projects forward with minimal supervision
• Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-paced environments with the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and business needs
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with experience working effectively across teams such as Sales, Operations, Product, and Finance
• Basic understanding of SQL or a strong willingness to learn; ability to extract and analyze data from databases is a plus
• Experience with Salesforce or Looker is highly preferred; familiarity with CRM systems and sales processes is a plus
• Excellent communication skills - Verbal and written English is a must, with the ability to present insights
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• This role will be fully engaged in measuring our commission operations efforts, so you should be familiar with the aspects and context of paying variable real estate incentive compensation
• This is an outstanding opportunity to partner internally and externally, leveraging your strong communication, superior critical thinking, and problem-solving skills in pursuit of connecting the dots

What you’ll bring:

• 2-3 yrs Salesforce experience
• Excel (v-lookups, pivot tables, etc), SQL, Looker experience preferred
• The drive to be a part of innovation and a growing team
• Bachelor's degree or higher 
• Exceptional organizational skills
• Strong time-management and project management skills
• An ability to remain focused and execute under pressure of deadlines and multitasking
• Sales ops and/or sales compensation familiarity

Value-Driven Employee Experience

THE GOLDEN RULE. It’s simple: Treat others the way we want to be treated. Whether we’re dealing with colleagues or customers, we don’t prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.

CALM FOCUS. We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fast-paced and stressful industries. But by focusing on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next, we can create solutions our customers love.

ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM. Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers’ experiences holistically and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams and our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title.