Sales Compensation Analyst

Responsibilities

• Support recurring commission calculations, payout preparation, exception tracking, data validation, and compensation reporting for assigned sales populations.
• Research and respond to routine compensation inquiries, data questions, and exception items while escalating complex issues to the Senior Analyst, Team Lead, or Manager.
• Maintain and validate compensation data inputs, files, reports, dashboards, and administrative records to support accurate plan operations and payout cycles. Support Finance/FP&A with periodic estimates of incentive plan expense (commissions, SPIFFs, bonuses) to inform quarterly and annual accrual entries.
• Assist with ICM/system updates, testing, plan administration activities, documentation, and standard operating procedures.
• Support process improvement, data quality cleanup, and team workload needs during high-volume compensation cycles.
• Apply approved plan rules and standard procedures to routine calculations, reporting, and exception tracking.
• Determine when compensation questions or exceptions are outside routine guidance and require escalation.
• Prioritize assigned tasks based on payout cycle timing, data readiness, and stakeholder urgency.
• Validate completeness and accuracy of routine data inputs and reports before submission or review.
• Identify data inconsistencies, missing inputs, or calculation issues and work with team members to resolve.
• Research routine stakeholder questions and document findings clearly.
• Support testing and validation of system updates, plan changes, and reporting outputs.
• Maintain accuracy while working through multiple time-sensitive compensation cycle deliverables.
• Minimal travel required; occasional travel may be needed for planning sessions, stakeholder meetings, system implementation activities, or leadership reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Human Resources, Analytics, Accounting, or related field; equivalent directly relevant experience may be considered.
• 2-4 years of experience in compensation, finance operations, sales operations, HR operations, analytics, reporting, or related field.
• Coursework or certification in compensation, finance, analytics, Excel, or data tools is a plus.

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