Finance Associate Director, Sales Compensation MI (Intelligence & Execution)

S&P Global; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

S&P Global is seeking an Associate Director, Sales Compensation(Intelligence & Execution) to own global sales compensation operations, ensuring accuracy, governance, and financial integrity of commissions across end-to-end processes.

The role requires strong financial judgment, advanced analytics, and robust control discipline to manage monthly payroll cycles, policy adherence, and audit readiness while partnering with Sales, Finance, Payroll, Legal, People Partners, and Compliance teams to

Qualifications

• Strong financial judgment and analytical capability.
• Experience with SOX controls and audit readiness.
• Ability to lead through high-pressure monthly payroll cycles.

Responsibilities

• Model and stress-test compensation scenarios to forecast plan spend.
• Refine payout estimates and models to support budgeting.
• Analyze plan effectiveness and support target setting.
• Lead validation for global commission payroll runs and sign-off.
• Approve large or non-standard payouts and executive incentives.
• Oversee withholding, recoveries, clawbacks, and related policies.
• Sign off on monthly SOX controls and financial reporting.
• Perform risk evaluations on deal cancellations and data integrity.
• Conduct variance analyses and data sanity checks.
• Support resolution of compensation disputes with stakeholders.

Job description

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

12

The Role:

The Associate Director, Sales Compensation(Intelligence & Execution) will serve as the global owner for sales compensation operations, accountable for the accuracy, governance, and financial integrity of commission payments across the end-to-end process. This high-accountability role requires sound financial judgment, advanced analytical capability, strong control discipline, and the resilience to lead through complex, high-pressure monthly payroll cycles, overseeing compensation modeling, stress testing, monthly commission calculations, payroll processing, SOX controls, dispute resolution, clawbacks, recoveries, and plan effectiveness analytics.

The successful candidate will combine strategic foresight with operational excellence, acting as both an operational leader and compliance governor for the commission function. By partnering closely with Sales, Finance, Payroll, Legal, People Partners, and Compliance teams, this individual will ensure sales compensation processes remain accurate, transparent, scalable, and governed by strong financial controls.

Responsibilities and Impact:

This role is a key control and governance leader within global sales compensation operations. By combining financial modeling, process discipline, stakeholder partnership, and strong audit readiness, the Finance Manager helps ensure commission payments are accurate, timely, transparent, and aligned with company policy and financial controls. The role directly supports seller trust, expense predictability, regulatory compliance, and scalable compensation operations.

• Build and execute high-level and detailed scenario modeling and stress-testing frameworks to forecast total plan spend and assess the financial impact of plan adjustments, structural redesigns, or macroeconomic shifts.

• Generate and refine global payout estimates and compensation decision models to support budget alignment.

• Analyze plan effectiveness metrics and partner with Sales leadership to design plan optimization strategies and support annual target-setting frameworks.

• Lead final validation and control overview for global commission payroll processing runs, providing final review and sign-off before submission.

• Evaluate and authorize large payments, non-standard payouts, custom executive incentives, and other high-value commission exceptions.

• Review and approve custom withholding, recovery, non-recoverable draw, guarantee, and clawback protocols in partnership with Payroll, Legal, People Partners, and Compliance teams.

• Sign off on monthly Audit and SOX controls, ensuring internal controls over financial reporting are properly maintained, documented, and audit-ready.

• Perform ongoing risk evaluations related to deal cancellations, retroactive adjustments, clawbacks, unauthorized overrides, and data integrity or security risks.

• Conduct variance analyses, automated sanity testing, and targeted spot-checks to ensure commission calculation accuracy and data integrity.

• Partner with Legal and People Partners to support resolution of sensitive compensation disputes and high-value sales compensation grievances, payout disputes with objectivity and diplomacy.

• Review, evaluate, and approve calculation overrides, custom exception