Associate Director, Global Sales Compensation & Analytics

S&P Global; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 104,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

S&P Global in New York, NY seeks a Senior Sales Compensation Leader to oversee a global team responsible for complex payout calculations, governance, and risk management. The role demands deep expertise in compensation design, controls, and stakeholder communication.

You will model scenarios, validate payroll cycles, and collaborate with Legal and People partners to resolve disputes, ensuring accurate and compliant payout processes across the business.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in sales compensation operations, finance governance, audit, or corporate financial modeling
• 2+ years in a people leadership role managing analytical teams
• Knowledge of complex plan mechanics: quotas, accelerators, thresholds, caps, splits, crediting rules, draws, guarantees, clawbacks
• Advanced Excel with nested logic, dynamic arrays, Power Query, scenario modeling
• Experience identifying and mitigating commission-specific financial risks and data integrity issues
• SOX-compliant documentation, approvals, and audit-ready evidence for payroll processing

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of compensation analysts and operations specialists — setting goals, maintaining accountability, and building a culture of precision, urgency, and end-to-end ownership, while overseeing timely and accurate resolution of plan participant queries across the global commission population.
• Build and execute scenario modeling and stress-testing frameworks to forecast total plan spend and assess the financial impact of plan adjustments, structural redesigns, and macroeconomic shifts — generating and refining global payout estimates and compensation decision models to support budget alignment and annual target-setting.
• Lead final validation and sign-off on global commission payroll processing runs — evaluating and authorising large payments, non-standard payouts, custom executive incentives, and approving custom withholding, recovery, non-recoverable draw, guarantee, and clawback protocols in partnership with Payroll, Legal, People Partners, and Compliance teams.
• Sign off on monthly SOX and Audit controls — performing ongoing risk evaluations related to deal cancellations, retroactive adjustments, unauthorized overrides, and data integrity risks, while conducting variance analyses and automated sanity testing to ensure commission calculation accuracy at scale.
• Partner with Legal and People Partners to resolve sensitive compensation disputes and high-value grievances — reviewing, evaluating, and approving calculation overrides, custom exception requests, and commission structures tied to Reductions in Force.
• Translate complex commission formulas, crediting rules, and payout outcomes into clear, step-by-step explanations for sales representatives, managers, and senior leaders across the organisation.

Skills

Sales compensation

People leadership

Financial modeling

SOX/ICFR controls

Data analysis

Tools

Xactly

Varicent

Anaplan

SAP Commissions

VBA

Python/Pandas

SQL

Alteryx

Job description

S&P Global in New York, NY seeks a Senior Sales Compensation Leader to oversee a global team responsible for complex payout calculations, governance, and risk management. The role demands deep expertise in compensation design, controls, and stakeholder communication.

You will model scenarios, validate payroll cycles, and collaborate with Legal and People partners to resolve disputes, ensuring accurate and compliant payout processes across the business.