Global Sales Compensation Director, Operations & Governance

Remote Jobs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 104,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Flexible downtime

Continuous learning

Retirement planning

Family-friendly perks

Employee discounts

Job summary

S&P Global is seeking an Associate Director of Sales Compensation to lead a global team ensuring accurate and compliant commission payments. You will own forecasting, budgeting, and governance across complex incentive plans, partnering with Payroll, Legal, and HR to resolve disputes and maintain financial integrity.

Ideal candidates bring 7+ years in compensation operations, strong modeling skills, and experience managing analytical teams in a global environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in sales compensation operations, finance governance, audit, or corporate financial modeling in a complex commission environment.
• 2+ years in a people leadership role managing analytical teams.
• Proven knowledge of complex plan mechanics: quotas, accelerators, thresholds, caps, splits, crediting rules, draws, guarantees, clawbacks.
• Advanced Excel with nested logic, dynamic arrays, Power Query, variance analysis, scenario modeling.
• Experience with SOX/ICFR controls and audit-ready documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of compensation analysts and operations specialists, driving accountability and timely resolution of queries.
• Build scenario modeling and stress-testing to forecast total plan spend and assess financial impact of plan changes.
• Sign off on global commission payroll processing runs and approve non-standard payouts and executive incentives.
• Perform SOX and audit control validations, variance analyses, and automated sanity checks for accuracy at scale.
• Collaborate with Payroll, Legal, People Partners, and Compliance to resolve disputes and overrides.
• Translate complex commission formulas and payout outcomes into clear explanations for sales reps and leaders.

Skills

Sales compensation expertise

Financial modeling

Risk management & controls

Audit & SOX/ICFR controls

Leadership & people management

Tools

Xactly

Varicent

Anaplan

SAP Commissions

VBA

Python/Pandas

SQL

Alteryx

Job description

S&P Global is seeking an Associate Director of Sales Compensation to lead a global team ensuring accurate and compliant commission payments. You will own forecasting, budgeting, and governance across complex incentive plans, partnering with Payroll, Legal, and HR to resolve disputes and maintain financial integrity.

Ideal candidates bring 7+ years in compensation operations, strong modeling skills, and experience managing analytical teams in a global environment.