Global Sales Compensation Lead – Payments & Controls

S&P Global; United States; Remote; USD 104,000 - 183,000; Full time

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Job summary

S&P Global seeks a seasoned Associate Director to own global sales compensation operations, ensuring accuracy, governance, and financial integrity of commission payments across the end-to-end process. You will drive modeling, controls, and cross-functional collaboration to support budget and policy alignment.

You will lead a team of compensation analysts, validate payouts, and manage risk with Payroll, Legal, and People partners while communicating complex rules clearly to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience: 7+ years in sales compensation operations, finance governance, audit, or corporate financial modeling within a complex commission environment, including 2+ years in a people leadership role.
• Sales Compensation Expertise: knowledge of complex plan mechanics including quotas, accelerators, thresholds, caps, splits, crediting rules, draws, guarantees, clawbacks.
• Financial Modeling: Advanced Excel, nested logic, dynamic arrays, Power Query, variance analysis, scenario modeling, payout forecasting.
• Risk Management and Controls: identify and mitigate commission-specific financial risks such as overpayments, retroactive adjustments, data integrity issues.
• Audit and SOX/ICFR Controls: SOX-compliant documentation, approvals, and audit-ready evidence for payroll processing cycles.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a global team of compensation analysts and operations specialists, ensuring timely resolution of participant queries.
• Build scenario modeling and stress-testing to forecast total plan spend and financial impact of plan changes.
• Validate and sign-off on global payroll processing runs, including non-standard payouts and executive incentives.
• Sign off on monthly SOX and audit controls, perform variance analyses and automated sanity checks for accuracy.
• Collaborate with Legal and People Partners to resolve compensation disputes and overrides.
• Translate complex rules into clear explanations for sales reps, managers, and senior leaders.

Job description

S&P Global seeks a seasoned Associate Director to own global sales compensation operations, ensuring accuracy, governance, and financial integrity of commission payments across the end-to-end process. You will drive modeling, controls, and cross-functional collaboration to support budget and policy alignment.

You will lead a team of compensation analysts, validate payouts, and manage risk with Payroll, Legal, and People partners while communicating complex rules clearly to stakeholders.